Job description
The opportunity
At Unity, we’re shaping the future of real-time 3D by applying machine learning to revolutionize how games are created and experienced. From neural rendering to on-device inference optimization on high-end mobile devices, we’re building the next generation of ML-powered graphics pipelines that enable faster, more immersive, and more efficient 3D game development.
We’re seeking a versatile, self-driven Senior Software Developer to collaborate with developers and ML engineers across AI teams, advancing the infrastructure behind innovative AI experiences. You’ll focus on infrastructure-as-code (e.g., Terraform), Kubernetes configuration and management, network security, observability, and DevOps practices such as static code analysis in CI/CD pipelines, Just-In-Time environment access, support runbooks, and robust failover and disaster recovery strategies.
You should be comfortable working across teams helping establish standards and best practices for infrastructure and code deployments, observability, and environment access accounting for the security and supportability of the system. You’ll thrive in both designing high-level architecture and implementing, deploying infrastructure and associated CI/CD pipelines. The backend systems you will help build in this role will support advanced ML-powered tools, including asset generation and LLM inference, to enable AI-assisted game creation.
What you’ll be doing
- Contribute to architectural decisions and technical direction of AI and backend platforms
- Implement high quality, maintainable infrastructure-as-code, Helm deployments, and help define best practices for other developers using Terraform cloud, Helm and Kubernetes
- Run spikes collaboratively with developers on technical approaches to address application infrastructure needs on Microsoft Azure and Google cloud. You will be part of building out and maturing the associated infrastructure and processes for promoting application code from development to production
- Support development investigations of issues including performance, network latency via observability and monitoring support in infrastructure
- Improve performance, reliability, observability, security and cost-efficiency of backend systems
What we’re looking for
- Extensive experience delivering and supporting cloud backend services using Terraform, Kubernetes, Helm, and CI/CD pipelines (e.g. Argo, GitHub Actions)
- Proven track record in observability, including monitoring, logging, alerting, and debugging tools such as Grafana, to ensure system reliability and performance
- Strong understanding of software delivery best practices, network security and a quality-first mentality and approach
- Strong interpersonal and communication skills, with successful experience aligning multiple stakeholders to deliver solutions
- Experience with Microsoft Azure or Google cloud platform offerings
You might also have
- Exposure to ML infrastructure or LLM inference deployment
- Familiarity with Unity or similar 3D engines
- Familiarity with languages like C# / .Net, Python, Golang
- Backend service development experience including API design
- Familiarity with networking, caching, or real-time data pipelines, and relational databases such as PostgreSQL
Additional information
- International relocation support is not available for this position
- Work visa/immigration sponsorship is not available for this position
Life at Unity
We offer a wide range of benefits designed to support employees’ well-being and work-life balance. You can read more about them on our career page.
Unity [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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Gross base salary
$125,300—$187,900 CAD
