Software Engineer Production Verification

Unity Technologies; Brighton; On-site; GBP 45,000 - 65,000; Full time

Job summary

A leading software company in Brighton is seeking a mid-level Software Engineer to focus on upgrading Unity games for clients. The role involves collaborating with various teams to ensure seamless migration of customer projects across Unity versions. Ideal candidates should have a solid understanding of Unity, experience debugging complex code, and a knack for technical problem-solving. This position requires good communication skills in English and the passion to enhance Unity's product quality.

Benefits

Comprehensive health insurance

Competitive retirement plans

Generous vacation days

Support for new parents

Mental health programs

Qualifications

• Strong proficiency with Unity Editor and upgrades across Unity versions.
• Experience debugging code in large multithreaded codebases.
• Knowledge of performance improvements from low-level optimizations.

Responsibilities

• Perform Unity project upgrades on customer games.
• Work on PV initiatives as a Production SME.
• Coordinate game collection refreshes.

Skills

Unity Editor proficiency

C# debugging skills

Software development life cycle understanding

Performance profiling knowledge

Code repository management

Job description

The opportunity

Brighton, United Kingdom, Full-time

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Unity’s scale and versatility serve millions of developers building for hundreds of target configurations, genres, and platforms. As our technology stack has grown more powerful and complex, the need for real‑world validation of innovations prior to broad release has become critical. The Production Verification (PV) Program connects our product teams with strategic partner game productions and ensures that every major advancement, optimization, or feature we build is proven in production, before it reaches our broader Unity ecosystem.

The Production Verification team supports Unity's reliability and performance across real‑world customer projects. We're looking for a mid‑level Software Engineer who will serve as a Production Subject Matter Expert (SME), working at the intersection of Unity's engine development, customer projects, and internal tooling.

Your primary responsibility will be performing Unity game upgrades on customer games in our PV Codeshare collection, ensuring successful migration paths between Unity versions. You'll work closely with Product development teams, Unity Studio Productions, Unity's Consulting, Release Engineering, and others to validate that Unity's updates don't break real‑world applications.

This role is ideal for engineers who enjoy deep technical problem‑solving, have strong Unity expertise, want to directly impact Unity's product quality, and are comfortable working with large codebases from diverse customers and industries.

What you'll be doing

• Perform Unity project upgrades on customer games in our PV collection, identifying and resolving migration issues between Unity versions
• Work on key PV initiatives such as Iteration Time, In App Purchase, AI, and Developer Data Framework among others, as a Production SME
• Improve internal tools that analyze feature usage in customer projects to enable better product team match‑making
• Manage access control for customer code repositories
• Help to migrate customer code into internal systems
• Coordinate game collection refreshes when developers make significant updates to their projects
• Support Product teams with profiling and benchmarking PV games when they lack bandwidth
• Provide technical expertise and customer insights to inform Unity's product development

What we're looking for

• Strong proficiency with Unity Editor, Unity Engine architecture, and experience upgrading projects across Unity versions
• C# Skillset: Capable of debugging code in large, multithreaded codebases
• Experience shipping multiple games or real‑time interactive applications with understanding of software development lifecycles
• Knowledge of profiling, analyzing, and improving performance from low‑level optimizations to architectural decisions
• Comfortable diving into unfamiliar codebases and domains to diagnose and resolve complex technical issues
• Knowledge of version control systems and code repository management

You might also have

• Familiarity with game asset pipelines, rendering systems, or physics engines
• Background in developer tooling, analytics, or instrumentation
• Experience working with customer codebases or providing technical consulting
• Experience with build automation, CI/CD pipelines, or release engineering workflows

Additional information

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

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 Well‑Being 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 leading platform to create and grow games and interactive experiences. Creators, ranging from game developers to artists, architects, automotive designers, infrastructure experts, filmmakers, and more, use Unity to bring their imaginations to life across multiple platforms, from mobile, PC, and console, to spatial computing.

As of the third quarter of 2024, more than 70% of the top 1,000 mobile games were made with Unity, and in 2024, Made with Unity applications had an average of 3.7 billion downloads per month. For more information, please visit Unity.

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This position requires the incumbent to have a sufficient knowledge of English to have professional verbal and written exchanges in this language since the performance of the duties related to this position requires frequent and regular communication with colleagues and partners located worldwide and whose common language is English.

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