Senior Backend Developer, Data Services

The opportunity

Our Unity Data Services team strives to connect data from a multitude of sources into meaningful segments. Success for our team is incorporating more data and entities so that our modelling and reporting teams have critical segments of data. In this role you'll be unifying the data for Unity, bringing together disparate information into a meaningful and accessible platform through highly distributed systems requiring reliable uptimes and high throughput. Join us in creating a robust data ecosystem that fuels innovation across Unity!

What you'll be doing

• Build, productionalize, and maintain scalable cloud-based systems
• Design and implement high throughput services spanning all of Unity
• Optimize systems to provide best in class latency and uptime for a highly demanded internal service
• Translate product requirements into a technical design and implement solutions using all resources available
• Test, Deploy and Maintain production ready code

What we're looking for

• Proficient and strong knowledge of Go, Javascript, C++ or Javascript
• Experience working with distributed systems with external database storage
• Experience in API definition and REST architecture
• Understanding of system optimizations and performance analysis
• Experience with high throughput low latency systems

You might also have

• Mobile development experience, ideally in the tech industry
• Exposure to user privacy and security or compliance
• Strong interpersonal and communication skills, with successful experience collaborating with distributed teams

Additional information

• International relocation support is not available for this position.

Life at Unity

Unity [NYSE: U] is the world's leading platform of tools for creators to build and grow real-time games, apps, and experiences across multiple platforms. 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 fourth quarter of 2023, more than 69% of the top 1,000 mobile games are made with Unity as derived from a blended number of the top 1,000 games in the Google Play Store and iOS App Store. In 2023, Made with Unity applications had an average of 3.7 billion downloads per month. For more information, please visit www.unity.com. 

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