Senior Manager - Software Engineering jobs at Unity in Denmark, Copenhagen

• Design, build, and evolve backend services, libraries, and frameworks that form the foundation of Unity's data platform
• Define and own APIs and developer facing tools that improve how teams ingest, process, and use data
• Lead design reviews, architectural discussions, and technical planning, ensuring the platform is reliable, extensible, and future ready
• Mentor engineers across the team, raising the bar for code quality, testing, and software craftsmanship
• Collaborate with product, ML, and data engineering teams to translate requirements into scalable platform features

• 8 or more years of software engineering experience with strong proficiency in Java and backend development
• Proven track record of designing and delivering large scale software systems or frameworks used by multiple teams
• Expertise in building and maintaining APIs, ideally with gRPC, REST, and schema technologies such as Protobuf or Avro
• Strong knowledge of distributed systems and event driven architectures
• Ability to drive cross team initiatives, align stakeholders, and make pragmatic tradeoffs that balance scale, performance, and developer experience

• Experience with streaming frameworks such as Apache Flink and Spark
• Background in building SDKs, developer platforms, or internal frameworks adopted across organizations
• Familiarity with large scale data platform challenges such as ingestion, enrichment, and schema management

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

This 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.

• Act as the design visionary for the Graphics and the Render pipelines team, defining strategic opportunities to improve workflows for artists, designers, and developers.
• Collaborate with cross-functional partners to shape the product roadmap, ensuring alignment with user needs and business goals.
• Design and deliver scalable, intuitive workflows that empower creators to produce high quality, real-time 3D experiences.
• Conduct advanced design research and synthesise insights to inform long-term product strategies.
• Drive consistency and design excellence across all graphics-related tools and render pipelines.
• Produce and iterate on concepts, prototypes, and high-fidelity designs to validate ideas and inform implementation.
• Serve as a mentor and thought leader for the design team, influencing best practices and raising the bar for design quality across Unity.
• Act as an advocate for Unity’s users, ensuring all solutions are aligned with their creative goals and technical needs.
• Partner with engineering to define and integrate complex systems, ensuring seamless collaboration across teams and products.

• A portfolio of work that demonstrates exceptional design craft for game engine tools, desktop applications, and/or web applications, with a focus on interaction design, workflows, and visual design.
• Experience designing for technical software such as professional desktop software, creative tools, game engines, or productivity tools.
• Track record of strategic impact in driving design initiatives that have improved user workflows and product success at scale.
• Strong ability to navigate and simplify complex systems, creating intuitive solutions for technical and non-technical users alike.
• Exceptional communication and leadership skills, with the ability to rally stakeholders and drive alignment across functions.
• Experience leveraging data, research, and user insights to inform design decisions and strategies.
• Experience leading design initiatives in large-scale or enterprise-level organizations.
• Demonstrated ability to mentor and guide junior designers and contribute to a culture of design excellence.
• Experience in using 3D rendering software, including Unity or other engines

• Professional experience in the film, animation, or games industry.
• Familiarity with coding and software languages such as C#, C++.
• Background in technical art, art direction, animation, or 3D modeling.
• Familiarity with software development workflows and technical concepts, such as version control, pipelines, or scripting.

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

This 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.

• Collaborating with engineering teams and internal stakeholders to define project scope, deliverables, and timelines. Drive alignment of project output, technical and operational objectives.
• Executing and monitoring of projects, ensuring clarity at all stages, developing and maintaining project plans, milestones, and capacity plans to ensure successful delivery. Establish clear tracking mechanisms for project progress and deliverables. Provide regular status updates and reports to stakeholders, highlighting achievements, risks, and next steps.
• Communicating with teams and stakeholders utilizing soft leadership skills. Help to break down silos, resolve ambiguity and ensure clear communications for all parties, proactively managing risk and dependencies.
• Drive for improvements and change - you are not satisfied with the status quo and strive to improve our processes and the way we work, from individual contributors to stakeholders and executives.

• 5+ years of experience in technical program management, project management, or a related role, preferably within a technology or engineering-focused organization.
• Strong understanding of software development lifecycles (SDLC) and engineering processes.
• Excellent communication, negotiation, and interpersonal skills, with the ability to effectively interface with technical and non-technical stakeholders.
• Proven ability to manage multiple complex projects simultaneously, balancing competing priorities and deadlines.
• Experience creating and managing capacity plans, project schedules, and risk mitigation strategies.
• Results-oriented, organized, and methodical. Comfortable dealing with ambiguity
• Demonstrate a proactive, curious mentality; be willing to ask questions, and dig for your own answers as well
• Comfortable with distilling available data from projects and user data to guide decisions and results.
• Proficiency with project management tools such as Jira

• Experience navigating large tech corporations, ensuring alignment and approvals from senior executives
• Familiarity with the games industry at large, game development, game engines or related fields.
• Certification in project management practices (e.g. PMP, Agile, Scrum).

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

This 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.

• Crafting unified APIs that implement features of various target platforms in a single, unified and testable way
• Contributing the implementations of these APIs to the Unity codebase, including unit tests
• Advocate for the unification of disparate platform implementations into simple abstractions across Unity
• Deliver a stable quality product that the team is proud of by exemplifying robust API design methodologies along with high-quality C# and C++ coding practices
• Refactoring existing code to be more efficient and maintainable, responding to user feedback and solving user issues with the codebase

• Knowledge of native development on at least one platform, preferable console, with adaptability to add more platforms to your expertise
• Empathy for the unique challenges game developers face building and maintaining rich experiences over multiple platforms
• Experience contributing to cross-team projects from initiation to completion
• Experience in C# and developing Unity-based games and extending the Unity editor
• Experience working with a small to medium size team

• Knowledge of writing native plugins for Unity and/or experience with API design and asynchronous coding paradigms
• Experienced in development for multiple game consoles, mobile or desktop platforms and shipping cross-platform titles that also use platform-specific features when appropriate
• Long term code ownership mentality by being diligent with documentation on thought processes, decisions made and code API

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

This 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.

• Ensuring the timely delivery and fitness for purpose of the custom and external components of our scripting tools
• Collaborating with technical leadership across the organization to craft a long-term vision and technical roadmap for the team
• Design, track, and communicate relevant metrics to guide resourcing decisions
• Communicate the team’s plans internally and externally to technical and non-technical audiences
• Provide feedback and solutions to users through documentation, forums, bug reports, and internal support mechanisms
• Guide the development and effectiveness of team members

• BS/MS Computer Science, or equivalent engineering experience
• Strength in C# and C++
• Relevant knowledge of compiler toolchains and the .NET ecosystem
• Excellent verbal and written communication skills with the ability to build relationships with global stakeholders

• Previous management experience
• Game development experience, particularly engine development
• Experience working with remote/international teams
• Experience developing cross-platform code (particularly between ARM & x64)
• Prior use of Unity

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

This 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.

You will be exposed to multiple cloud platforms and data pipelines that process >7 billion events per day. We expect that you have had exposure and experience with big data pipeline engineering.

• Work closely with our BI team and stakeholders to design and develop analytics products and data solutions for internal and external customers.
• Design and develop scalable data pipelines using technologies such as Spark, Python, Airflow, Snowflake, BigQuery, DBT, Druid and others.
• Collaborate with cross-functional teams, including ML engineers, data scientists, and analysts, to understand business and data needs and translate them into data solutions that support data-driven insights and reporting.
• Implement best practices for data infrastructure, storage, and processing in a petabyte-scale environment.
• Work with multiple cloud platforms (GCP, AWS, Snowflake) to architect and develop cloud-based data solutions.
• Monitor and maintain pipelines to uphold internal service level agreements (SLAs).
• Implement data governance strategies to ensure data quality, consistency, and security across the organization.

• Bachelor's or Master's degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or a related field.
• Hands-on experience in data engineering, including designing and optimizing complex data pipelines.
• Proficient in SQL and programming languages such as Python, Scala, or Java.
• Experience with big data technologies (e.g., Flink, Spark) and cloud platforms (e.g., GCP preferred, AWS).
• Solid understanding of data warehousing concepts such as ETL/ELT, data modeling and data patterns such as SCD, CDC, snapshots, partitioning etc.
• Strong data architectural knowledge, comfort working across multiple repositories, services and environments.
• Comfortable navigating ambiguity and ownership of problem definitions.
• Excellent problem-solving skills and ability to work in a fast-paced, dynamic environment.

• Knowledge of Kafka or similar pub-sub technology.
• Experience in AdTech is a plus, but not required

• International relocation support is not available for this position.

This 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.

• Design, build, and maintain real-time systems that power critical functionality across Unity’s data stack.
• Work closely with internal stakeholders, including product teams, infra engineers, and other stakeholders, to understand needs and deliver impactful solutions.
• Drive improvements in system observability, reliability, and performance, applying best practices in monitoring, alerting, and on-call readiness.
• Review code, mentor teammates, and contribute to architectural discussions, helping the team scale engineering excellence.
• Participate in roadmap planning and cross-functional projects, helping shape the future of Unity’s next-generation data platform.

• Proficiency in Python, Go, or Java, with a track record of writing clean, production-ready code.
• Experience building and operating distributed systems in a cloud-native environment.
• Solid understanding of observability best practices, including setting up monitoring, alerting, and logging (e.g., Prometheus, Grafana, PagerDuty).
• Familiarity with cloud infrastructure and orchestration tools such as Kubernetes, Terraform, and GCP.
• Ability to design and maintain versioned APIs and service interfaces, especially using gRPC and Protobuf.

• Experience with streaming technologies like Apache Flink, Kafka, or similar.
• Comfort working across multiple time zones and cross-functional teams, aligning on shared interfaces and infrastructure.
• Interest in contributing to open-source projects or building internal frameworks for broader adoption.
• A strong belief in collaborative engineering, shared ownership, and building systems as a team sport.
• Familiarity with data platform challenges at scale, such as ingestion, enrichment, or schema management.

• Relocation support is not available for this position.

This 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.