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Senior Data Platform Engineer

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Unity logoUnity · Copenhagen, Denmark
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About the role

Unity is looking for a Senior Software Engineer, Data Platform to help build and scale the data infrastructure powering our Ads business and Unity Commons, our internal platform that supports teams across Unity. In this role, you will work at the intersection of large-scale distributed systems, data engineering, and platform infrastructure. You will design, build, and operate critical data platform capabilities that enable high-throughput, reliable, and trusted data flows across Unity's advertising ecosystem, while also supporting common internal services used across the company. This is a role for an engineer who enjoys solving complex platform problems, owning meaningful components end to end, and building systems that serve many teams at scale. You will partner closely with engineers, product managers, data scientists, and downstream data consumers to deliver platforms that are resilient, extensible, and easy to adopt.

Responsibilities

  • Design, build, and operate scalable platform services, backend systems, and self-service tooling used by users across Unity.
  • Work across distributed systems, data platform, cloud infrastructure, observability, reliability, and automation.
  • Collaborate with teammates and partner teams across Unity to deliver reliable, reusable solutions.
  • Build systems that are reliable, maintainable, secure, cost-efficient, and easy for internal teams to adopt.

Requirements

  • Solid experience designing, building, and operating distributed systems, backend services, or data platforms in production.
  • Strong backend and systems engineering skills, including service design, API design, debugging, and production operations.
  • A good understanding of distributed systems fundamentals, including scalability, reliability, fault tolerance, and operational trade-offs.
  • Familiarity with cloud-native infrastructure, container orchestration, CI/CD, infrastructure as code, and observability.
  • You might also have
  • Experience with data-intensive platforms, including pipelines, streaming systems, storage layers, or analytics infrastructure.
  • Familiarity with privacy, security, compliance, and cost-efficiency considerations in large-scale platform environments.
  • Experience applying AI or agentic tooling to engineering workflows.
  • Additional information
  • Relocation support is not available for this position
  • Work visa/immigration sponsorship is not available for this position

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.Life at UnityThis posting is intended to fill an existing vacancy, and we are committed to providing applicantsThis position requires the incumbent to have a sufficient knowledge of English to have professional verbal and written exchanges in this language since the performance of the duties related to this position requires frequent and regular communication with colleagues and partners located worldwide and whose common language is English.

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