Senior Platform Backend Engineer

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

Benefits offered by this job

Health insurance

Employee stock ownership

Retirement plan

Vacation days

Commuting subsidy

Mental health support

Job summary

Unity is hiring a Senior Backend Engineer for Unity Studio in the UK. You will own the cloud services behind real-time collaboration, build and publishing pipelines, and the platform APIs the editor uses.

You will join a fast-moving, cross-functional team and help set technical direction while mentoring others. The role emphasizes designing, building, and operating backend services in production, with a focus on reliability, scalability, and collaboration across engineering, design, and product

Qualifications

• Experience designing, building, and operating backend services in production.
• Strong proficiency in one or more modern backend languages.
• Solid grounding in distributed systems and API design.

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 and implementation through deployment, monitoring, and running them in production.
• Evolve platform scalability: stateful real-time workloads, session routing, and cloud-native service fleets.
• Define APIs and service contracts that the editor and partner teams build against.
• Strengthen infrastructure and delivery practices: IaC, CI/CD, and automated deployment.
• Collaborate with product and design to turn ambiguous problems into shipped features.
• Champion reliability and observability; respond to and learn from production issues.
• Mentor other engineers and raise quality through code reviews and design feedback.

Skills

Backend development

Distributed systems

APIs design

Cloud platforms

Monitoring & incident response

Tools

Kubernetes

Job description

Uk

Zone A: £75,400 – £113,000 GBP gross

Senior Software Engineer, Backend

Unity Studio is our industry focused, cutting-edge, browser-based real-time 3D authoring tool. Studio's next chapter takes it into gaming, with an ambitious vision for how real-time 3D experiences are created, shared, and played on the web. As a Senior Backend Engineer on the Unity Studio team, you will own the cloud services behind the product: real-time multi-user collaboration, build and publishing pipelines, and the platform APIs the editor is built on. You will join a fast-moving, cross-functional team where your work ships quickly and directly shapes the product. You will collaborate closely with engineers, designers, and product managers from day one. As a senior member of the team, you will help set the technical direction, raise the engineering bar, and mentor others as the team grows.

The opportunity

Unity Studio is our industry focused, cutting-edge, browser-based real-time 3D authoring tool. Studio's next chapter takes it into gaming, with an ambitious vision for how real-time 3D experiences are created, shared, and played on the web. As a Senior Backend Engineer on the Unity Studio team, you will own the cloud services behind the product: real-time multi-user collaboration, build and publishing pipelines, and the platform APIs the editor is built on. You will join a fast-moving, cross-functional team where your work ships quickly and directly shapes the product. You will collaborate closely with engineers, designers, and product managers from day one. As a senior member of the team, you will help set the technical direction, raise the engineering bar, and mentor others as the team grows.

What You'll Be Doing

• Design, build, and operate the backend services behind real-time collaborative editing, game publishing, and content delivery
• Own systems end-to-end - from design and implementation through deployment, monitoring, and running them in production
• Evolve how the platform scales - stateful real-time workloads, session routing, and service fleets in a cloud-native environment
• Define the APIs and service contracts that the editor and partner teams build against
• Strengthen our infrastructure and delivery practices - infrastructure as code, CI/CD, and automated deployment
• Work closely with product and design to turn ambiguous problems into shipped, reliable features
• Champion reliability and observability, and help the team respond to and learn from production issues
• Mentor other engineers and raise quality across the team through code review and design feedback

What We're Looking For

• Substantial professional experience designing, building, and operating backend services in production
• Strong proficiency in one or more modern backend languages, and the flexibility to work across several
• Solid grounding in distributed systems - API design, data persistence, state management, and the trade-offs between them
• Hands-on experience with cloud platforms and containerized, orchestrated deployments
• A track record of owning services in production, including monitoring, debugging, and incident response
• Pragmatism and comfort with ambiguity - you ship iteratively and make sensible trade-offs under real deadlines
• Clear communication and easy collaboration with both technical and non-technical colleagues

You might also have

• Experience with real-time or multiplayer systems - WebSockets, collaborative editing, or state synchronization
• Experience with the Unity Engine or other interactive 3D technology
• Experience building backend services for games or interactive media

Additional Information

• Relocation support is not available for this position
• Work visa/immigration sponsorship is not available for this position

Base Salary Range

We determine the base salary range for this role based on your primary work location:

Uk

Zone A: £75,400 – £113,000 GBP gross

Zone B: £86,200 – £129,400 GBP gross

Canada

Zone A: $125,300 – $175,300 CAD gross

Zone B: $135,400 – $203,000 CAD gross

This range reflects the anticipated base salary for this position. Beyond base salary, this role may be eligible for equity awards and participation in our company incentive plans (such as annual discretionary bonuses or sales commissions). The final offer amount will depend on several factors, including geographic location and the candidate’s relevant experience, professional background, and skill set.

Cette fourchette correspond au salaire de base prévu pour ce poste. En plus du salaire de base, ce poste peut donner droit à des attributions d’actions et à une participation à nos programmes d’incitation de l’entreprise, comme des primes annuelles discrétionnaires ou des commissions de vente. Le montant final de l’offre dépendra de plusieurs facteurs, notamment l’emplacement géographique ainsi que l’expérience pertinente, le parcours professionnel et les compétences du/de la candidat(e).

Avantages

Chez Unity, nous voulons que nos membres d’équipe s’épanouissent. Nous offrons un large éventail d’avantages conçus pour soutenir le bien‑être et l’équilibre travail‑vie personnelle.

Veuillez noter: L’admissibilité aux avantages, les offres spécifiques et la couverture varient selon le pays et le statut d’emploi.

Bien que les avantages précis puissent varier, voici certaines des façons dont nous nous efforçons de prendre soin de nos membres d’équipe admissibles à l’échelle mondiale :

• assurance santé, vie et invalidité complète
• Subvention pour les déplacements
• Participation des employés à l’actionnariat
• Régimes de retraite/pension compétitifs
• Vacances et congés personnels généreux
• Soutien aux nouveaux parents grâce à des congés et des programmes de soutien aux familles
• Collations offertes au bureau
• Programmes et soutien en matière de santé mentale et de bien‑être
• Groupes-ressources pour employés
• Programme mondial d’aide aux employés
• Programmes de formation et de perfectionnement
• Programme de bénévolat et de jumelage de dons

Benefits

At Unity, we want our team members to thrive. We offer a wide range of benefits designed to support well‑being and work‑life balance.

Please note: Benefits eligibility, specific offerings, and coverage vary based on the country and employment status.

While specific benefits vary, here are some of the ways we strive to take care of our eligible team members globally:

• Comprehensive health, life, and disability insurance
• Commute subsidy
• Employee stock ownership
• Competitive retirement/pension plans
• Generous vacation and personal days
• Support for new parents through leave and family‑care programs
• Office food snacks
• Mental Health and Wellbeing programs and support
• Employee Resource Groups
• Global Employee Assistance Program
• Training and development programs
• Volunteering and donation matching program

Life at Unity

Unity [NYSE: U] is the world’s leading game engine, powering play for more than 3 billion consumers each month. The top mobile games in the world, the most played PC indie titles, the most innovative console games, and virtually all of the top XR and Web Games are developed, deployed, and grown in Unity. Unity also enables teams across industries like automotive, manufacturing, and healthcare to design, simulate, and collaborate in 3D – closing the gap between ideas and reality. For more information, please visit www.unity.com.

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