Senior Software Engineer, Backend Infrastructure

In this role, you will design, build, and operate the backend infrastructure that powers Unity Spark’s real-time, browser-based game editor. You’ll own production readiness on Google Cloud, including CI/CD pipelines, IaC, Kubernetes workloads, and scalable stateful servers. You’ll work closely with backend, product, and partner teams to ensure reliable, scalable services and mentor others while leveraging AI coding tools. This is a hands-on, high-impact opportunity to shape how real-time games are created and played on the web.

• Comprehensive health, life, and disability insurance
• Commute subsidy
• Employee stock ownership
• Competitive retirement/pension plans
• Generous vacation and personal days
• Parental leave programs

• Design, build, and maintain CI/CD pipelines with GitOps-style deployment
• Own infrastructure as code for Google Cloud and Kubernetes estate
• Scale stateful real-time workloads including autoscaling server fleets and session routing
• Write backend services and tooling to keep the platform running
• Debug production problems across the stack (load balancing, TLS, DNS, services) and fix root causes
• Improve observability with metrics, logs, traces, and alerts; run load tests
• Mentor engineers, review code/designs, and raise engineering bar with AI tools

• Backend services at scale in production (one modern backend language)
• Hands-on experience with containerized workloads on Kubernetes (preferably GKE)
• Deep experience owning IaC and end-to-end CI/CD pipelines (e.g., Terraform)
• On-call experience and reliability mindset
• Strong communication across technical and non-technical colleagues
• Comfort with AI coding tools and critical review of AI-generated code

• sound judgment
• comfort with ambiguity and trade-offs
• effective written/verbal communication
• Kubernetes / Google Cloud (GKE)
• Terraform
• CI/CD pipelines