Staff Software Engineer - Feature Platform & ML Pipelines

Unity Technologies; Mountain View (CA); On-site; USD 193,000 - 289,000; Full time

Job summary

Unity Technologies in Mountain View, CA is seeking a Staff Software Engineer on the Feature Platform team to design, build, and operate scalable data pipelines powering ads optimization and ML.

You will own end-to-end offline data flows, work with Python/Java/SQL, and contribute to the Feature Store and online serving layers built in Go. Strong emphasis on correctness, observability, and reliability.

Qualifications

• Strong software engineering fundamentals with deep experience designing and operating large-scale distributed systems in production.
• Hands-on experience building production-grade ETL/ELT pipelines using Python, Java, SQL, or similar technologies.
• Experience with distributed processing frameworks such as Spark or Flink in both batch and streaming modes, including performance tuning and parallel computation.
• Understanding of how offline data systems integrate with online serving layers — feature stores, low-latency APIs, and real-time systems.
• Experience with cloud-native environments, containerized systems, Kubernetes, and workflow orchestration tools.
• Strong ownership mindset — focused on correctness, observability, and long-term maintainability.
• Experience with Go is a plus, particularly for collaboration on high-throughput feature serving services.

Responsibilities

• Design, build, and operate scalable, production-grade data pipeline systems and curated feature datasets powering ads optimization and ML
• Own end-to-end offline data flows from raw event ingestion to feature-ready datasets, with strong emphasis on correctness, reproducibility, and SLA compliance
• Develop and maintain large-scale batch and streaming systems (Python / Java / SQL) with a strong focus on performance, cost-efficiency, and reliability
• Build and contribute to our Feature Store platform, including integration with the high-throughput online serving layer (Go-based services)
• Translate complex product and monetization logic into well-engineered, extensible systems serving analytics and machine learning use cases
• Drive improvements in observability, testing frameworks, and quality standards across the platform
• Lead architectural decisions and engineering best practices within the Feature Platform team

Skills

Distributed systems

ETL pipelines

Python

Java

SQL

Spark

Flink

Go

Kubernetes

Observability

Ownership

Job description

Unity Technologies in Mountain View, CA is seeking a Staff Software Engineer on the Feature Platform team to design, build, and operate scalable data pipelines powering ads optimization and ML.

You will own end-to-end offline data flows, work with Python/Java/SQL, and contribute to the Feature Store and online serving layers built in Go. Strong emphasis on correctness, observability, and reliability.