Staff Software Engineer, Ads Data Platform

The opportunity
The Data Platform team at Unity builds the software foundations that allow product, machine learning, and analytics teams to make sense of data at scale. We design and develop the core services, APIs, and frameworks that enable fast, reliable, and consistent access to data across Unity Ads. Our work supports critical adtech use cases including segmentation, optimization, and real time bidding.

We are looking for a Staff Data Platform Engineer with deep expertise in Java and distributed systems. In this role you will take ownership of major platform components, take part in architectural decisions, and mentor engineers while delivering software that makes Unity's data ecosystem more powerful and easier to use.

What you'll be doing

• Design, build, and evolve backend services, libraries, and frameworks that form the foundation of Unity's data platform
• Define and own APIs and developer facing tools that improve how teams ingest, process, and use data
• Lead design reviews, architectural discussions, and technical planning, ensuring the platform is reliable, extensible, and future ready
• Mentor engineers across the team, raising the bar for code quality, testing, and software craftsmanship
• Collaborate with product, ML, and data engineering teams to translate requirements into scalable platform features

What we're looking for

• 8 or more years of software engineering experience with strong proficiency in Java and backend development
• Proven track record of designing and delivering large scale software systems or frameworks used by multiple teams
• Expertise in building and maintaining APIs, ideally with gRPC, REST, and schema technologies such as Protobuf or Avro
• Strong knowledge of distributed systems and event driven architectures
• Ability to drive cross team initiatives, align stakeholders, and make pragmatic tradeoffs that balance scale, performance, and developer experience

You might also have

• Experience with streaming frameworks such as Apache Flink and Spark
• Background in building SDKs, developer platforms, or internal frameworks adopted across organizations
• Familiarity with large scale data platform challenges such as ingestion, enrichment, and schema management

Additional information

• Relocation support is not available for this position
• Work visa/immigration sponsorship is not available for this position

Life at Unity
We offer a wide range of benefits designed to support employees' well-being and work-life balance. You can read more about them on our career page.

Unity [NYSE: U] is the leading platform to create and grow games and interactive experiences. Creators, ranging from game developers to artists, architects, automotive designers, infrastructure experts, filmmakers, and more, use Unity to bring their imaginations to life across multiple platforms, from mobile, PC, and console, to spatial computing.

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