Senior Platform Backend Engineer

As a Senior Backend Engineer on the Unity Studio team, you own the cloud services behind real-time collaboration, publishing pipelines, and editor APIs. You will shape scalable, production‑grade backend systems and mentor teammates in a fast‑moving, cross‑functional environment. Your work enables real-time, multi‑user experiences on the web and game‑related tooling. You contribute to technical direction and deliver reliable features that impact how creators build and publish content.

• Comprehensive health, life, and disability insurance
• Commute subsidy
• Employee stock ownership
• Competitive retirement/pension plans
• Generous vacation and personal days
• Support for new parents and family care programs

• Design, build, and operate backend services for real-time collaborative editing, game publishing, and content delivery
• Own end-to-end service lifecycle from design through deployment and production run‑book
• Scale platforms for stateful real-time workloads, session routing, and cloud-native service fleets
• Define APIs and service contracts consumed by the editor and partner teams
• Improve delivery practices with infrastructure as code, CI/CD, and automated deployment
• Collaborate with product and design to turn ambiguous problems into reliable features
• Champion reliability and observability and drive incident learning
• Mentor engineers and raise code quality through reviews and design feedback

• Substantial professional experience designing, building, and operating backend services in production
• Proficiency in one or more modern backend languages and ability to work across several
• Solid grounding in distributed systems, including API design, data persistence, and state management
• Hands-on experience with cloud platforms and containerized deployments
• Track record of owning services in production, including monitoring and incident response
• Pragmatism and comfort with ambiguity, ability to ship iteratively under deadlines
• Clear communication and collaboration with technical and non-technical stakeholders

• Strong communication
• Collaborative mindset
• Problem-solving under pressure
• Real-time / multiplayer systems (WebSockets, state synchronization)
• Cloud-native architectures
• API design and service contracts