Senior Data Platform Engineer

The opportunity

The Ads and AI Platform team at Unity handles a broad spectrum of data systems and tools, covering every aspect of the data lifecycle - from ingestion and storage to processing, feature generation, and machine learning model deployment. Our work lays the groundwork for diverse applications such as simulations, game playing experience, and helping to improve game monetization, empowering other Unity teams to create exceptional tools and services for our users.

We're seeking a talented Senior Platform Engineer to join our team and contribute their expertise in building data infrastructure products. In this role, you'll collaborate closely with engineers, product specialists, and data experts to research, prototype, and develop world-class applications, services, and pipelines, leveraging our over 60 billion daily data events.

What you'll be doing

• Design and optimize our large-scale data platform and machine learning infrastructure systems for efficiency, reliability, and cost-effectiveness.
• Lead infrastructure tooling improvements by researching, prototyping, and implementing solutions that enhance our operational excellence and development agility.
• Champion infrastructure optimization projects across the company, utilizing your expertise to drive significant cost savings while maintaining or improving service performance.
• Engage in on-call rotations, applying your deep understanding of infrastructure to quickly identify and resolve complex issues, with a focus on minimizing impact and preventing future occurrences through automation and system enhancement.
• Collaboratively work across teams to implement data-driven, high-quality solutions with a focus on scalability and cost-efficiency, while refining service applications and infrastructure using CI/CD and IaC in partnership with development and site reliability engineering teams for improved operational and cost efficiencies.

What we're looking for

• BS in Computer Science or Engineering or equivalent infrastructure and back-end engineering experience with experience building robust distributed systems
• Proficient in either Go, Java or Python
• Expertise building Kubernetes infrastructure stacks
• Outstanding interpersonal skills and ability to work multi-functionally with global teams across time zones.
• Operational experience from either the ML or Data domain and its associated technologies is advantageous

You might also have

• An 'in-it-together' mindset that appreciates engineering as a collective effort
• Hands-on experience with Protobuf, Kafka, Flink, BigQuery, Druid, Feast, Ray or KServe
• Experience with Terraform, ArgoCD, Github Actions and similar tools used for CI/CD

Additional information

Zone A: 794,800 - 1,192,200 DKK gross.

Life at Unity

Unity [NYSE: U] is the world's leading platform of tools for creators to build and grow real-time games, apps, and experiences across multiple platforms. 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.

As of the fourth quarter of 2023, more than 69% of the top 1,000 mobile games are made with Unity as derived from a blended number of the top 1,000 games in the Google Play Store and iOS App Store. In 2023, Made with Unity applications had an average of 3.7 billion downloads per month. For more information, please visit www.unity.com.

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Benefits

At Unity, we want our team members to thrive. 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.

While specific benefits vary, here are some of the ways we strive to take care of our eligible team members globally: 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.

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