# Staff Data Platform Engineer, Unity Ads

Hiring organization: [Unity](https://career.thegoodapps.co/organizations/unity)

Canonical page: https://career.thegoodapps.co/jobs/30a2a990-f869-4a60-9b55-c4b903aecbb2

Listed on Unity's own careers site. Applications go to them directly.

- Employment type: full time
- Seniority: Staff
- Location: San Francisco, CA

## Summary

Unity seeks a Staff Engineer to design and operate large-scale data infrastructure supporting their advertising business and internal platform services. This role is for a senior individual contributor who excels at distributed systems architecture, working across multiple teams to build resilient, reusable data platforms at scale.

_Our summary, not Unity's wording._

## Skills named

Apache Flink, Apache Kafka, ArgoCD, Kubernetes, SPARK, Terraform

## Required

- Extensive experience designing and operating large-scale distributed systems or data platforms in production
- Strong backend and systems engineering skills including service design, API design, and production operations
- Deep understanding of distributed systems fundamentals: scalability, reliability, fault tolerance, consistency
- Experience building shared platforms or self-service infrastructure for multiple teams
- Ability to understand complex systems and lead pragmatic improvements

## Nice to have

- Experience with data-intensive platforms, pipelines, streaming systems, or analytics infrastructure
- Hands-on experience with Apache Flink, Apache Paimon, Kafka, Spark, Kubernetes, ArgoCD, or Terraform
- Background in advertising technology, gaming, monetization, or high-scale consumer platforms

Apply on Unity's site: https://unitytech.wd1.myworkdayjobs.com/en-US/Unity/job/San-Francisco-CA-USA/Staff--Data-Platform_JOBREQ-2616119