Unity Staff Software Engineer Ads Data Platform 

Denmark, Capital Region of Denmark, Copenhagen 

633564705

• 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.