Senior Real-Time Data Engineer - Scalable Pipelines (Equity)

Unity Technologies SF; Mountain View (CA); On-site; USD 210,000 - 273,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Equity awards

Annual discretionary bonuses

Health insurance

Employee stock ownership

Job summary

Unity Technologies SF in Mountain View is seeking a Senior Software Engineer to design, build, and operate distributed data systems powering near real-time analytics and reporting for our advertising platform.

You will own attribution pipelines, real-time ad event processing, and architectural modernization, migrating legacy components to modern gRPC services while ensuring low latency, data correctness, and scalable operations.

Qualifications

• Strong foundation in distributed systems and systems design.

Responsibilities

• Own the end-to-end attribution pipeline.
• Build and operate real-time ad event processing.
• Lead architectural modernization of the event-handling layer to a modern gRPC-based service.
• Improve low-latency data services and caching for ad requests.
• Build and maintain critical ad-serving infrastructure including logging, tracing, and auth.
• Drive data health monitoring and quality in real time and batch pipelines.
• Collaborate with ML, Reporting, and external partners on timely signal reporting.

Skills

Distributed systems

Data pipelines

Streaming processing

Python

Java/Scala

Kubernetes

Docker

Airflow

Cloud-native

Backpressure handling

Tools

Apache Flink

Apache Spark

Apache Kafka

gRPC

Docker

Kubernetes

Job description

Unity Technologies SF in Mountain View is seeking a Senior Software Engineer to design, build, and operate distributed data systems powering near real-time analytics and reporting for our advertising platform.

You will own attribution pipelines, real-time ad event processing, and architectural modernization, migrating legacy components to modern gRPC services while ensuring low latency, data correctness, and scalable operations.