Staff Security Architect

Unity Enterprise; Austin (TX); On-site; USD 181,000 - 272,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Comprehensive health, life, and long‑h

Stock ownership

Competitive retirement/pension plans

Generous vacation and personal days

Parental leave support

Office snacks

Mental health programs

Employee Resource Groups

Global Employee Assistance Program

Training and development programs

Volunteer and donation matching

Job summary

Unity is seeking a Staff Security Architect to serve as a senior technical authority on security across our AI-native platform and tools. You will map risk, shape architecture, and guide secure-by-design outcomes with product and engineering teams.

The role requires hands-on engineering ability and deep cloud security experience across GCP, AWS, and Azure, with demonstrated AI security focus on LLM-based products and agentic systems.

Qualifications

• 10+ years in security, with substantial time in a security architecture, principal, or staff engineering capacity on complex, large-scale systems.
• Hands-on engineering ability with security focus in AI-enabled environments.
• Strong cloud security depth across major cloud providers (GCP/AWS/Azure).

Responsibilities

• Shape security architecture for Unity products and services with engineering teams.
• Map technical risk and guide secure-by-design outcomes.
• Embed in high-priority launches from design through release and coordinate with security functions.

Skills

Security Architecture

AI Security

Cloud Security

LLM-based systems

Agentic systems

Tools

GCP

AWS

Azure

Job description

About the role

Unity builds the real-time 3D platform that powers games and interactive experiences, along with tools used across ads, automotive, and industry. Our attack surface spans the engine and editor developers build on, client runtime, a broad portfolio of cloud products and services, a large monetization business, and a fast-growing set of AI-assisted and agentic creation tools. We are hiring a Staff Security Architect to be a senior technical authority on how security is designed into that ecosystem, with a deliberate center of gravity in AI. This is a high-craft individual contributor role. You will sit at two levels at once. With product and engineering teams, you are the person who can speak every security language in the room, map real technical risk, and guide teams to ship secure by design. Inside Security, you make our platforms, tools, and services add up to a single coherent posture, not a set of disconnected scanners. We are transforming our security program for the agentic era: building agents and automation that meet developers where they work, and securing AI-native Unity products, LLM integrations, and agent workflows as they ship. You should be able to architect both sides of that, credibly, with engineers who build AI for a living.

What you will do

Shape security architecture for Unity products and services alongside the engineering and platform teams who own their own designs. Map technical risk, align on a coherent target architecture across those teams, and guide them to secure-by-design outcomes rather than late-stage findings. Embed in high-priority product and service launches from early design through release. Ensure security is addressed end-to-end and pull in the right specialists from ProdSec, SecOps, Offensive Security, and Infrastructure Security at the right moment. Partner with IT and other functions on the launch, design, and configuration of AI features across our vendor and third-party products, so new AI capabilities are enabled with the right controls, data boundaries, and defaults from the start. With AI and agentic systems Set the security architecture for Unity's AI-native products, LLM integrations, agent workflows, and AI-assisted development toolchains. Contribute to the security team's own agentic tooling. We are building automation that puts security review, guidance, and detection directly into developer workflows across source control, AI coding tools, and chat. You will be one of the senior voices on how it is designed, where it integrates, and how it scales without becoming a platform we maintain forever, working with the engineers building it rather than owning it end to end. Stay comfortable prototyping ideas with a hands-on approach. Within Security Analyze our risk posture and advise leadership on prioritization: which remediation and risk-reduction investments actually reduce risk to our products. Partner across Engineering Services to build secure paved roads for modern engineering practice, so the secure path is the default path.

What you bring

10+ years in security, with substantial time in a security architecture, principal, or staff engineering capacity on complex, large-scale systems. Demonstrated high craft in AI security: hands-on architecture or security work on LLM-based products, agentic systems, or AI-assisted engineering workflows. You understand these systems at the implementation level, not as a category. Hands-on engineering ability. You build, prototype, and extend systems yourself, and you know when not to over-engineer. Strong cloud security depth in GCP, AWS, or Azure, including identity, workload, and CI/CD security. Solid command of secure architecture patterns, including what enterprise customers and auditors expect. Clear technical communication for both engineers and non-technical partners across regions. Nice to have Experience securing developer platforms, build systems, or CI/CD at scale. Experience in gaming, ad tech, or large developer-facing platforms. Contributions to AI security standards, research, tooling, or open source.

Base Salary Range

We determine the base salary for this role based on your primary work location: Zone A: $160,300 - $240,500, Zone B: $181,200 - $271,800, Zone C: $203,600 - $305,400. 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. 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. If you have a disability that means there are preparations or accommodations we can make to help ensure you have a comfortable and positive interview experience, please fill out this form to let us know. 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. This posting is intended to fill an existing vacancy, and we are committed to providing applicants with updates throughout the hiring process in accordance with applicable law.