Staff Data Engineer- Ads reporting

The opportunity
Unity is building a robust near real-time reporting platform that powers critical analytics and decision-making across our ecosystem. We are looking for a Data Engineer to help architect and implement the distributed data systems that drive this platform at scale.

In this role youll design and build high-throughput low-latency data processing pipelines that power reporting used by internal teams and external customers. Youll operate at the intersection of distributed systems stream processing and cloud-native infrastructure ensuring correctness reliability and scalability in a high-volume production environment.

This is a high-impact role where engineering rigor architectural clarity and production ownership matter.

What youll be doing

• Design and implement near real-time data pipelines and reporting infrastructure.
• Architect distributed stream and batch processing systems using technologies such as Apache Flink Spark and Airflow.
• Build and maintain data processing frameworks that handle large-scale event ingestion and transformation with strong correctness guarantees.
• Ensure production-grade reliability observability and operability across distributed systems.
• Define and enforce data processing semantics including:
• Exactly-once processing
• Event time vs. processing time handling
• Stateful stream management
• Backpressure and fault tolerance strategies
• Collaborate cross-functionally with data consumers product and infrastructure teams to define scalable reporting solutions.
• Contribute to long-term platform architecture setting engineering standards for performance resilience and maintainability.

What were looking for

• Strong foundation in distributed systems and systems design.
• Hands-on experience building and operating large-scale data processing systems.
• Deep understanding of streaming concepts:
• Exactly-once semantics
• Watermarking and event-time processing
• Stateful stream processing
• Checkpointing and recovery
• Backpressure handling
• Production experience with frameworks such as Apache Flink Spark Kafka or similar technologies.
• Proficiency in Python Java or Scala.
• Experience with workflow orchestration tools (e.g. Airflow) for stream and batch coordination.
• Strong understanding of cloud-native architectures and distributed infrastructure (Kubernetes containerization cloud platforms).

Additional information

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

Benefits
At Unity we want our team members to thrive. We offer a wide range of benefits designed to support well-being and work-life balance.

Please note: Benefits eligibility specific offerings and coverage vary based on the country and employment status.

While specific benefits vary here are some of the ways we strive to take care of our eligible team members globally: Comprehensive health life and disability insurance Commute subsidy Employee stock ownership Competitive retirement/pension plans Generous vacation and personal days Support for new parents through leave and family-care programs Office food snacks Mental Health and Wellbeing programs and support Employee Resource Groups Global Employee Assistance Program Training and development programs Volunteering and donation matching program

Life at Unity
Unity NYSE: U is the worlds leading game engine powering play for more than 3 billion consumers each month. The top mobile games in the world the most played PC indie titles the most innovative console games and virtually all of the top XR and Web Games are developed deployed and grown in Unity. Unity also enables teams across industries like automotive manufacturing and healthcare to design simulate and collaborate in 3D closing the gap between ideas and reality. For more information please visit .

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