Staff Data Platform Engineer — Remote, Scale Data Infra

Unity Enterprise; Mountain View (CA); Hybrid; USD 178,000 - 268,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Health insurance

Employee stock ownership

Generous vacation and personal days

Job summary

Unity is seeking a Staff Engineer, Data Platform in Mountain View, CA to lead the design, build, and evolution of scalable platform services and data infrastructure powering Unity's Ads and internal Commons platform. You will work across distributed systems, data pipelines, and cloud infrastructure, driving reliability, performance, and developer experience for multiple engineering teams.

In this senior IC role, you will provide hands-on technical leadership, shape platform patterns and

Qualifications

• Extensive experience designing, building, and operating large-scale distributed systems, backend services, or data platforms in production environments.
• Strong backend and systems engineering skills, including service design, API design, system integration, debugging, and production operations.
• Deep understanding of distributed systems fundamentals, including scalability, reliability, fault tolerance, performance, consistency, and operational trade-offs.

Responsibilities

• Own the design, build, and evolution of scalable platform services, backend systems, and self-service tooling used across Unity.
• Work across a broad technical surface area, including distributed systems, data pipelines, cloud infrastructure, observability, reliability, automation, and developer experience.
• Partner with engineering teams to identify shared needs and deliver reusable, high-leverage solutions.

Skills

Distributed systems

Backend engineering

Data platforms

Cloud infrastructure

Observability

Tools

Apache Flink

Apache Paimon

Kafka

Spark

Kubernetes

ArgoCD

Terraform

Job description

Unity is seeking a Staff Engineer, Data Platform in Mountain View, CA to lead the design, build, and evolution of scalable platform services and data infrastructure powering Unity's Ads and internal Commons platform. You will work across distributed systems, data pipelines, and cloud infrastructure, driving reliability, performance, and developer experience for multiple engineering teams.

In this senior IC role, you will provide hands-on technical leadership, shape platform patterns and