Staff Software Engineer, Gaming AI

Unity; Bellevue (WA); On-site; USD 200,000 - 261,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Health insurance

Stock options

Retirement plans

Paid time off

Commuter subsidy

Job summary

Unity is seeking a Staff Software Engineer for its gaming AI team to lead delivery of cloud services and features powering the next generation of the Unity platform. You will influence architecture and drive cloud-related front-end and back-end work across teams.

You will work with Claude Code and other AI developer tools, champion scalable, performant cloud solutions, and partner with AI, infrastructure, and data groups to advance Unity's AI direction.

Qualifications

• Experience delivering scalable cloud services and cloud-based features.
• Experience designing performant full-stack systems (frontend, cloud services, devops).
• Ability to drive technical direction within a team and align with leadership on strategic vision.

Responsibilities

• Design and deliver cloud-based services for the game creation platform.
• Build front-end features as part of full-stack systems.
• Optimize cloud services for scale and performance.
• Apply cloud service design patterns to cloud applications.
• Use AI developer tools (e.g., Claude Code) daily.
• Handle DevOps tasks: CI/CD, monitoring, DB maintenance.
• Drive technical direction with leadership.
• Collaborate with AI, infrastructure, and data teams.

Skills

Cloud services

Full-stack development

DevOps

AI tooling

Performance optimization

Tools

GCP

Kubernetes

Claude Code

Job description

The opportunity

Unity is building the next generation game creation platform, changing how games will be built over the next five years. Join us and help create a product that will enable game developers to bring their ideas to life in an entirely new way.

The opportunity

Unity is building the next generation game creation platform, changing how games will be built over the next five years. Join us and help create a product that will enable game developers to bring their ideas to life in an entirely new way. As a Staff Software Engineer on our gaming AI team, you will be responsible for leading the delivery of cloud services and features that power this platform. This is new and challenging work at the center of Unity's AI direction.

What You’ll Be Doing

• Designing and delivering cloud-based services and cloud features for the next generation game creation platform
• Building front-end features as part of performant full-stack systems
• Optimizing cloud services for scalability and performance
• Applying cloud service design patterns and architecture experience to cloud applications
• Using agentic AI tools (such as Claude Code) as a core part of your daily engineering work
• DevOps work: CI/CD pipelines, monitoring, database maintenance.
• Driving technical direction within the team and building alignment with leadership
• Collaborating with the AI, infrastructure, and data teams

What We’re Looking For

• Familiar with GCP services, optionally familiar with Azure.
• Familiar with K8s / KCL
• Strong interest in game development with AI
• Experience delivering scalable cloud services and cloud-based features
• Understanding of cloud service design patterns and architecture experience with cloud applications
• Experience designing performant full-stack systems, including frontend / cloud services / devops
• Expertise in using AI developer tools (such as Claude Code) in your daily work, and a dedication to building your career path with these tools
• Ability to drive technical direction within a team and align with leadership on strategic vision

You might also have

• Game development experience, or a passion for gaming
• Knowledge of cloud infrastructure

Gross Annual Salary: $200,400 - $260,500

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.

• 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.