Senior Backend Engineer, Real-Time Cloud Platform

Unity; Lincoln; On-site; GBP 75,400 - 113,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Health insurance

Employee stock ownership

Pension plan

Generous vacation and personal days

Commuting subsidy

Job summary

Unity Studio is seeking a Senior Backend Engineer to own the cloud services behind real-time collaboration, build and publishing pipelines, and platform APIs that power the editor.

You will join a fast-moving, cross-functional team where your work ships quickly and directly shapes the product. The role includes mentoring others, setting technical direction, and ensuring reliability as the platform scales in a cloud-native environment.

Qualifications

• Substantial professional experience designing, building, and operating backend services in production.
• Strong proficiency in one or more modern backend languages and cross-language flexibility.
• Solid grounding in distributed systems with API design and data persistence trade-offs.
• Hands-on experience with cloud platforms and containerized deployments.
• Track record of owning services in production including monitoring and incident response.

Responsibilities

• Design, build, and operate the backend services behind real-time collaborative editing, game publishing, and content delivery.
• Own systems end-to-end from design to deployment and production run.
• Scale platforms with stateful real-time workloads and cloud-native service fleets.
• Define APIs and service contracts used by editor and partner teams.
• Maintain infrastructure as code, CI/CD, and automated deployment practices.
• Collaborate with product/design to ship reliable features under tight deadlines.
• Champion reliability and observability and respond to production issues.
• Mentor other engineers and raise quality through reviews and feedback.

Skills

Backend architecture

Distributed systems

Cloud platforms

Containerization/Kubernetes

Real-time / multiplayer

API design

Mentoring

Tools

AWS/GCP/Azure

CI/CD tooling

Job description

Unity Studio is seeking a Senior Backend Engineer to own the cloud services behind real-time collaboration, build and publishing pipelines, and platform APIs that power the editor.

You will join a fast-moving, cross-functional team where your work ships quickly and directly shapes the product. The role includes mentoring others, setting technical direction, and ensuring reliability as the platform scales in a cloud-native environment.