Staff Infrastructure Engineer — Scalable Distributed Systems

Unity Technologies; København; On-site; DKK 916,100 - 1,145,100; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Health insurance

Stock ownership

Retirement plans

Generous vacation and personal days

Employee Resource Groups

Job summary

Unity Technologies is building and operating core distributed systems powering Unity Ads at global scale. The Ads Infrastructure team focuses on scalable, resilient infrastructure using Kubernetes, Kafka, Flink and cloud platforms.

You will guide architecture, own services with engineering teams, and drive observability and automation while mentoring others and advising leadership on long-term platform direction.

Qualifications

• 7+ years of experience building and operating large scale distributed systems in production.
• Programming experience for backend service and infrastructure development.
• Hands on experience with Kubernetes and cloud native systems in GCP, AWS, or Azure.
• Expertise in distributed infrastructure including traffic management, load balancing, networking, and large scale data processing.
• Deep understanding of networking, observability, and debugging distributed systems end to end.

Responsibilities

• Guide the architecture and low level design of distributed systems to ensure scalability, reliability, and efficiency
• Own and operate infrastructure services with the engineering teams, including on-call responsibilities and deep debugging of complex issues
• Support engineering teams onboarding and usage of platform managed services
• Drive operational excellence through improved observability, resiliency, and automation
• Mentor engineers and raise the technical bar through design reviews, code reviews, and engineering best practices
• Advise leadership on platform direction, long term investment, and adoption of emerging infrastructure technologies

Skills

Distributed systems

Backend service development

Kubernetes

Cloud platforms

Observability & debugging

Tools

ArgoCD

Kafka

Flink

Job description

Unity Technologies is building and operating core distributed systems powering Unity Ads at global scale. The Ads Infrastructure team focuses on scalable, resilient infrastructure using Kubernetes, Kafka, Flink and cloud platforms.

You will guide architecture, own services with engineering teams, and drive observability and automation while mentoring others and advising leadership on long-term platform direction.