Staff Data Platform Engineer

Who you are

• 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
• Experience building shared platforms, internal systems, or self-service infrastructure that supports multiple engineering teams
• Ability to quickly understand complex existing systems, identify leverage points, and lead pragmatic improvements
• Experience supporting data-intensive platforms or systems, including pipelines, streaming systems, storage layers, or analytics infrastructure
• Hands-on exposure to technologies such as Apache Flink, Apache Paimon, Kafka, Spark, Kubernetes, ArgoCD, or Terraform
• Experience in advertising technology, gaming, monetization, marketplaces, or high-scale consumer platforms

What the job involves

• Unity is looking for a Staff Engineer, Data Platform to help build and scale the data infrastructure powering our Ads business and Unity Commons, our internal platform that supports teams across Unity
• In this role, you will work at the intersection of large-scale distributed systems, data engineering, and platform architecture
• You will own and evolve critical data platform capabilities that enable high-throughput, reliable, and trusted data flows across Unity's advertising ecosystem, while also supporting common internal services used broadly across the company
• This is a senior individual-contributor role for an engineer who thrives on solving complex platform problems, raising the technical bar, and building systems that serve many teams at scale
• You will partner closely with engineers, product managers, data scientists, infrastructure teams, and downstream data consumers to deliver platforms that are resilient, extensible, and easy to adopt
• 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 across Ads, infrastructure, data, and product to identify shared needs and deliver reusable, high-leverage solutions
• Provide hands-on technical leadership for ambiguous, cross-functional initiatives that span multiple systems and teams
• Contribute to platform patterns, technical standards, and engineering best practices that improve consistency and quality across the organization

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