Unity Technologies

real-time 3D technology

SeniorSoftwareEngineer,AIAuthoring

$166–263k Mountain View, California, United States
Market Sentiment
HIGH DEMAND

Neural analysis suggests this role is
optimal for Senior candidates.

The Brief

“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.

real time 3D technology
Problems you'll solve

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

Free ATS check

Applying for this Senior Software Engineer, AI Authoring role?

Most applicants get filtered before a human reads their resume. See if yours makes the cut.

ANONYMOUS · UNFILTERED

What do employees actually say about Unity Technologies?

Real rants from real employees. Read before you apply.

Read Company Rants →