Unity Technologies
real-time 3D technology
SeniorSoftwareEngineer,AIAuthoring
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“Senior Software Engineer, AI Authoring at Unity Technologies. Skills: AI Authoring, DevOps, Cloud Backend Services, Kubernetes, Terraform, Observability, CI/CD. Raise the bar on reliability, scalability, performance, and maintainability of AI authoring products. Drive operational excellence via DevOps best practices”
What You'll Achieve.
Raise the bar on reliability, scalability, performance, and maintainability of our AI authoring products; Ensure system reliability and performance; Close the gap between ideas and reality
Industry & Context.
Agentic troubleshooting; Support investigations into issues like performance regressions and network latency
What They're Looking For.
Must Have
Experience building and shipping complex, user-facing software products at scale, Experience delivering and supporting cloud backend services using Terraform, Kubernetes, Helm, and CI/CD pipelines, Hands-on experience with Microsoft Azure or Google Cloud Platform, Proven track record in observability, including monitoring, logging, alerting, and debugging tools such as Grafana to ensure system reliability and performance, Grasp of software delivery best practices and network security, paired with a quality-first mindset, Ability to translate business and user needs into technical solutions, Communication and interpersonal skills, with a proven ability to align stakeholders across disciplines and organizations, Sufficient knowledge of English to have professional verbal and written exchanges in this language
Nice to Have
Exposure to ML infrastructure or LLM inference deployment, Backend service development experience, including API design, Familiarity with networking, caching, real-time data pipelines, and relational databases such as PostgreSQL, Familiarity with languages such as C#/. NET, Python, or Go, Familiarity with Unity or similar 3D engines
What You'll Do.
Raise the bar on reliability
and maintainability of AI authoring products
Drive operational excellence via DevOps best practices
Establish cross-team standards for infrastructure and deployments
Build a trustworthy A testing framework
Manage software releases with client-server compatibility in mind
Drive observability across system health and business metrics
Build systems powering asset generation
Partner closely with product
and other engineering teams to influence the product roadmap
Contribute to technical strategy and architectural decisions for Unity AI and backend platforms
Design and implement sustainable
scalable solutions for Unity AI products
Push the boundaries of the Unity Editor with cutting-edge AI agent technologies
Improve the reliability
and cost-efficiency of our backend systems
Support investigations into issues like performance regressions and network latency
Run technical spikes with developers to address application infrastructure needs on Microsoft Azure and Google Cloud
Build and mature the infrastructure and processes for promoting application code from development to production
maintainable infrastructure-as-code and Helm deployments
Define best practices for Terraform Cloud
How You'll Work.
Team & Collaboration
Partner closely with product, design, and other engineering teams; Align stakeholders across disciplines and organizations
Communication Scope
Communication and interpersonal skills; Professional verbal and written exchanges in English
Full Job Description
The opportunity At Unity, we're shaping the future of real-time 3D technology by building AI to transform how games are created and experienced. From intelligent authoring tools to new ways of interacting with content, we're engineering the next generation of pipelines that make 3D game development faster, more immersive, and more efficient. We're seeking a versatile, self-driven Senior Software/DevOps Engineer to raise the bar on reliability, scalability, performance, and maintainability of our AI authoring products. You'll drive operational excellence via DevOps best practices, including CI/CD automation, Kubernetes management, infrastructure-as-code, agentic troubleshooting, and robust disaster recovery strategies. You'll establish cross-team standards for infrastructure and deployments, build a trustworthy A/B testing framework, manage software releases with client-server compatibility in mind, and drive observability across system health and business metrics. The systems you build will span high-level architecture down to hands-on implementation, powering asset generation, LLM inference, and the ML-driven tools that bring AI-assisted game creation to life. What you'll be doing Partner closely with product, design, and other engineering teams to influence the product roadmap. Contribute to technical strategy and architectural decisions for Unity AI and backend platforms, balancing short-term delivery with long-term product health. Design and implement sustainable, scalable solutions for Unity AI products, pushing the boundaries of the Unity Editor with cutting-edge AI agent technologies. Improve the reliability, performance, observability, security, and cost-efficiency of our backend systems, and support investigations into issues like performance regressions and network latency through strong observability and monitoring. Run technical spikes with developers to address application infrastructure needs on Microsoft Azure and Google Cloud. Build and mature the in
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