Senior Backend Engineer, AI Platform & Infrastructure

Unity Software
Mountain View
Workplace: OnsiteFull timeUSD 135,800 - 258,600 annuallyFunction: Software EngineeringSkills: ["Roadmap ownership","Collaboration","Engineering bar improvement","Debugging","Project execution"]

Build and operate the backend platform that powers an internal AI product analytics agent. Own platform services, APIs, integration surfaces, and access control, with emphasis on authentication, authorization, permissioning, auditability, reliability, performance, and cost. Operate GCP-based infrastructure using BigQuery, harden deployments with CI/CD and infrastructure as code, and contribute end-to-end to agent orchestration and knowledge retrieval capabilities.

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Unity Software
Unity Software
19 hours ago

Senior Backend Engineer, AI Platform & Infrastructure

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Job Summary

Build and operate the backend platform that powers an internal AI product analytics agent. Own platform services, APIs, integration surfaces, and access control, with emphasis on authentication, authorization, permissioning, auditability, reliability, performance, and cost. Operate GCP-based infrastructure using BigQuery, harden deployments with CI/CD and infrastructure as code, and contribute end-to-end to agent orchestration and knowledge retrieval capabilities.
Location: Mountain View
Workplace: Onsite
Employment Type: Full time
Job Function: Software Engineering
Seniority: Mid level

Key Responsibilities

  • •Design, build, and operate backend services, APIs, and self-service tooling used by the platform and other teams.
  • •Own access control and data security, including authentication, authorization, permissioning, and auditability.
  • •Build and harden integration surfaces, including the MCP server that exposes governed data to AI tools.
  • •Ensure reliability, performance, and cost efficiency across latency, scaling behavior, fault tolerance, observability, and incident response.
  • •Contribute end-to-end to agent capability work, including orchestration, knowledge retrieval, and user-facing surfaces.

Pay and Benefits

Salary: USD 135,800 - 258,600 annually
Perks:Health InsuranceLife InsuranceDisability InsuranceCommuter BenefitsRetirement/pensionPaid LeaveParental LeaveOffice SnacksEmployee AssistanceTrainingEmployee ResourceVolunteeringDonation Matching

Key Requirements

  • •Experience designing, building, and operating distributed systems, backend services, or internal platforms in production.
  • •Strong backend and systems engineering skills, including service design, API design, debugging, and production operations.
  • •A solid grasp of distributed systems fundamentals such as scalability, reliability, and fault tolerance.
  • •Practical cloud-native experience, ideally GCP, including container orchestration, CI/CD, infrastructure as code, and observability tooling.
  • •Experience implementing authentication, authorization, or access control for systems handling sensitive data.
Experience:Distributed systemsCloud infrastructureProduction operationsAI/agent systems
Skills:Roadmap ownershipCollaborationEngineering bar improvementDebuggingProject execution
Languages:English
Tech Stack:GCPBigQueryAPIsMCP serverLLMOrchestrationRetrievalCI/CDInfrastructure as codeContainer orchestrationObservabilityAuthenticationAuthorization

Company Brief

Unity Software
Develops the Unity real-time 3D development platform used to create, operate, and monetize interactive experiences and games across mobile, console, PC, and AR/VR platforms. Serves developers, studios, and enterprises worldwide.
Industry: Developer Tools
Company Size: Enterprise (1,001+ employees)
Revenue: USD 1B+
Growth: Public Company
Valuation: Public Company (Market Cap in USD)
Funding: IPO / Publicly Listed
Headquarters: San Francisco, United States
Founded: 2004
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