Senior Software Engineer

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

Benefits offered by this job

Health insurance

Stock options

Performance bonuses

Job summary

Unity is seeking a senior backend engineer in Mountain View, CA, to shape backend and AI infrastructure for real-time 3D tools. You will collaborate across product, design, and engineering to drive scalable backend capabilities and reliable pipelines.

You’ll contribute to architectural decisions, implement scalable solutions, and help ensure performance and security across cloud environments, with emphasis on observability and cost-efficiency.

Qualifications

• Experience shipping complex software at scale.
• Hands-on with Terraform, Kubernetes, Helm and CI/CD.
• Strong observability and cloud platform knowledge.
• Ability to translate business needs into technical solutions.

Responsibilities

• Partner with product/design/engineering to influence roadmap.
• Contribute to technical strategy and architecture for AI/backend platforms.
• Design scalable solutions for Unity AI products and the Editor.
• Improve backend reliability, performance, and security.
• Run spikes to address infra needs on Azure/GCP.
• Build infra and processes for CI/CD, Helm, and Kubernetes deployments.

Skills

Software delivery

Terraform

Kubernetes

Helm

CI/CD

Cloud platforms

Observability

Security best practices

Technical translation

Communication

Tools

Grafana

PostgreSQL

Job description

The opportunity

At Unity, we're shaping the future of real-time 3D technology by building AI to transform how games are created and experienced. From intelligent authoring tools to new ways of interacting with content, we're engineering the next generation of pipelines that make 3D game development faster, more immersive, and more efficient.

What you’ll be doing

• Partner closely with product, design, and other engineering teams to influence the product roadmap.
• Contribute to technical strategy and architectural decisions for Unity AI and backend platforms, balancing short-term delivery with long-term product health.
• Design and implement sustainable, scalable solutions for Unity AI products, pushing the boundaries of the Unity Editor with cutting‑edge AI agent technologies.
• Improve the reliability, performance, observability, security, and cost-efficiency of our backend systems, and support investigations into issues like performance regressions and network latency through strong observability and monitoring.
• Run technical spikes with developers to address application infrastructure needs on Microsoft Azure and Google Cloud.
• Build and mature the infrastructure and processes for promoting application code from development to production, writing high-quality, maintainable infrastructure‑as‑code and Helm deployments, and defining best practices for Terraform Cloud, Helm, and Kubernetes.

What we’re looking for

• Experience building and shipping complex, user-facing software products at scale
• Experience delivering and supporting cloud backend services using Terraform, Kubernetes, Helm, and CI/CD pipelines (e.g., Argo, GitHub Actions)
• Hands‑on experience with Microsoft Azure or Google Cloud Platform
• Proven track record in observability, including monitoring, logging, alerting, and debugging tools such as Grafana to ensure system reliability and performance
• Strong grasp of software delivery best practices and network security, paired with a quality‑first mindset
• Ability to translate business and user needs into technical solutions
• Strong communication and interpersonal skills, with a proven ability to align stakeholders across disciplines and organizations

You might also have

• Exposure to ML infrastructure or LLM inference deployment
• Backend service development experience, including API design
• Familiarity with networking, caching, real‑time data pipelines, and relational databases such as PostgreSQL
• Familiarity with languages such as C#/.NET, Python, or Go
• Familiarity with Unity or similar 3D engines

Additional Information

Relocation support is not available for this position.

Gross pay annually : $210,300 - $273,400

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.

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.

Equal opportunity & inclusion

Unity is a proud equal opportunity employer. We are committed to fostering an inclusive, innovative environment and celebrate our employees across age, race, color, ancestry, national origin, religion, disability, sex, gender identity or expression, sexual orientation, or any other protected status in accordance with applicable law. Our differences are strengths that enable us to support the growing and evolving needs of our customers, partners, and collaborators.

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Hiring process & qualifications

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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