Staff Data Engineering in Create, Insights

The opportunityWe're seeking an experienced Staff Data Engineer to lead the development and evolution of our Data Platform that provides game developers with invaluable insights into their game performance and player behavior. In this high-impact role, you'll architect scalable data solutions, drive effective data platform adoption across the organization and mentor engineering teams. You'll work at the intersection of engineering excellence and business impact, ensuring our data infrastructure supports current needs while scaling for future growth.

What you'll be doing

• Platform leadership - design, build, maintain our Data Platform infrastructure using modern cloud technologies and industry best practices.


• Strategic planning - drive the technical roadmap for data platform capabilities, balancing immediate needs and critical asks, with long-term maintainability.


• Hands-on - you are hands-on in the technical aspects and balance building with planning effectively.


• Operational excellence - measure and improve platform reliability, performance and scalability.

What we're looking for

• Experience working with data as it flows through distributed systems and streaming technologies.


• Experience with data platform engineering, centralising data needs and serving both producers and consumers in achieving their goals


• Data quality and observability experience


• Strong experience working cross-function and cross-team to deliver high-quality data where its needed most


• Excellent technical skills to translate business needs to data platform requirements, and communication skills to translate progress, blockers and findings back to the business.

Additional information

• Relocation support is not available for this position


• Work visa/immigration sponsorship is not available for this position

BenefitsAt 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 UnityUnity [NYSE: U] is the leading platform to create and grow games and interactive experiences. 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 third quarter of 2024, more than 70% of the top 1,000 mobile games were made with Unity, and in 2024, Made with Unity applications had an average of 3.7 billion downloads per month. For more information, please visit Unity.

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