Staff Software Engineer, AI Authoring

Unity; Mountain View (CA); On-site; USD 180,000 - 240,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Health insurance

Employee stock ownership

Generous vacation and personal days

Office food and snacks

Training and development programs

Commute subsidy

Retirement plans

Parental leave

Wellbeing programs

Volunteer program

Job summary

Unity is seeking a Staff Software Engineer to elevate the reliability, scalability, and performance of its AI authoring backend. You will shape infrastructure, CI/CD automation, and deployment pipelines across Azure and Google Cloud, influencing the Unity Editor with AI-driven tooling.

You will drive observability and cross-team collaboration, ensuring robust disaster recovery, security, and cost efficiency while delivering high-quality software at scale.

Qualifications

• Excellent communication and collaboration across teams.
• Experience with large-scale backend services and cloud platforms.
• Strong problem-solving and debugging skills.

Responsibilities

• Design and implement scalable backend solutions for Unity AI products.
• Drive reliability, performance, and observability of cloud services.
• Lead deployment strategies with Terraform, Helm and Kubernetes.
• Collaborate with product and design for roadmap alignment.
• Support secure, cost-efficient infrastructure and incident response.

Tools

Terraform

Kubernetes

Helm

CI/CD

Job description

• 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
• We’re seeking a versatile, self-driven Staff Software Engineer to raise the bar on reliability, scalability, performance, and maintainability of our AI authoring products
• You’ll drive operational excellence via DevOps best practices, including CI/CD automation, Kubernetes management, infrastructure-as-code, agentic troubleshooting, and robust disaster recovery strategies
• You’ll establish cross-team standards for infrastructure and deployments, build a trustworthy A/B testing framework, manage software releases with client-server compatibility in mind, and drive observability across system health and business metrics
• The systems you build will span high-level architecture down to hands-on implementation, powering asset generation, LLM inference, and the ML-driven tools that bring AI-assisted game creation to life
• 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

Benefits

• Comprehensive health, life and disability insurance
• Employee stock ownership
• Generous vacation and personal days
• Office food and free snacks, lots of health options!
• Employee Resource Groups
• Training and development programs
• Commute subsidy
• Competitive retirement/pension plans
• Paid leave for new parents
• Mental Health and Wellbeing programs and support
• Global Employee Assistance Program
• Volunteering and donation matching program

Strong communication and interpersonal skills, with a proven ability to align stakeholders across disciplines and organizationsStrong grasp of software delivery best practices and network security, paired with a quality-first mindsetExperience building and shipping complex, user-facing software products at scaleHands-on experience with Microsoft Azure or Google Cloud PlatformExperience delivering and supporting cloud backend services using Terraform, Kubernetes, Helm, and CI/CD pipelines (e.g., Argo, GitHub Actions)Proven track record in observability, including monitoring, logging, alerting, and debugging tools such as Grafana to ensure system reliability and performanceAbility to translate business and user needs into technical solutionsExposure to ML infrastructure or LLM inference deploymentBackend service development experience, including API designFamiliarity with networking, caching, real-time data pipelines, and relational databases such as PostgreSQLFamiliarity with languages such as C#/.NET, Python, or GoFamiliarity with Unity or similar 3D engines