Staff Software Engineer (AI Authoring)

Unity

Mountain View, CA, United States Posted October 9, 2026

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On-site Full-time Senior
Salary Range

$172,200 - $283,900

Job Description

Join Unity, a leader in real-time 3D technology, as a Staff Software Engineer (AI Authoring). In this role, you will drive operational excellence, establish cross-team standards, and contribute to technical strategy and architectural decisions. You will design and implement sustainable, scalable solutions for Unity AI products, improve the reliability and performance of backend systems, and build and mature the infrastructure for promoting application code from development to production.

  • Contribuer à l'excellence opérationnelle via les meilleures pratiques DevOps, y compris l'automatisation CI/CD, la gestion de Kubernetes, et les stratégies de récupération après sinistre.
  • Établir des normes inter-équipes pour l'infrastructure et les déploiements, construire un cadre de test A/B fiable, et gérer les versions logicielles en tenant compte de la compatibilité client-serveur.
  • Collaborer étroitement avec les équipes produit, design et ingénierie pour influencer la feuille de route produit et contribuer à la stratégie technique et aux décisions architecturales.
  • Strong communication and interpersonal skills, with a proven ability to align stakeholders across disciplines and organizations
  • Strong grasp of software delivery best practices and network security, paired with a quality-first mindset
  • Experience building and shipping complex, user-facing software products at scale
  • Hands-on experience with Microsoft Azure or Google Cloud Platform
  • Experience delivering and supporting cloud backend services using Terraform, Kubernetes, Helm, and CI/CD pipelines (e.g., Argo, GitHub Actions)
  • Proven track record in observability, including monitoring, logging, alerting, and debugging tools such as Grafana to ensure system reliability and performance
  • Ability to translate business and user needs into technical solutions
  • 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
Required Skills
software development cross-team collaboration DevOps CI/CD Kubernetes hospitality communication Azure Google Cloud Platform Terraform Helm GitHub Actions Grafana machine learning LLM PostgreSQL
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