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Staff Data Platform Engineer, Unity Ads

Unity

San Francisco, CA · full time · Staff

Listed on Unity’s own careers site. You apply with them directly — we never stand between you and the employer.

What this role is

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.

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What they ask for

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

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