Unity Technologies

Staff Software Developer

Unity Technologies$157K — $236K *
Information Technology
Less than 5 years of experience
Job Overview by Ladders

Qualifications

  • Extensive experience with C# / .NET for production web APIs; TypeScript experience is a plus.
  • Ability to work at varying abstraction levels from architecture to code support.
  • Demonstrated technical leadership influencing architectural decisions across teams.
  • Track record in designing and evolving APIs and SDKs with careful versioning.
  • Strong interpersonal skills with a history of aligning stakeholders for complex solutions.
  • Expertise in cloud offerings like databases and observability stacks.
  • Proven ability to debug, profile, and optimize production applications.

Responsibilities

  • Own APIs and SDKs for AI asset creation throughout design and support lifecycle.
  • Ensure backend services are secure, reliable, and observable with failure recovery scenarios.
  • Develop and maintain integrations in collaboration with partners to enhance asset workflows.
  • Define patterns for AI-assisted development, maintaining code quality amid increased velocity.
  • Improve CI, release, and incident management processes for continuous system enhancement.
  • Collaborate with product, design, and engineering teams to shape the feature roadmap.

Benefits

  • Comprehensive health, life, and disability insurance.
  • Commute subsidy and employee stock ownership options.
  • Competitive retirement and pension plans.
  • Generous vacation and personal days.
  • Support for new parents through leave and family-care programs.
  • Office snacks and mental health support programs.
  • Employee Resource Groups and training development opportunities.
Full Job Description
The opportunity

AI has made coding and prototyping faster. Game asset production and integration have not seen equivalent gains across images, 3D models, audio, and animation. The AI Generators team is building a platform for developers to create, modify, and incorporate high-quality assets into games through natural language, reusable tools, and APIs. This gives creators the convenience, artistic control, and interoperability their workflows need to bring their ideas to life.

You will help shape how these tools evolve alongside advances in generative AI and agentic development. That means exposing new capabilities and evaluating quality in agentic loops with appropriate human-in-the-loop oversight, so more people can build games and experts can realize their creative vision with less time and effort.

You will own the shared API and SDK layer that Unity products consume, and work across the orchestration and partner integration layers that sit behind it. Unity is the engine behind a large share of the games people play. This platform defines how generative AI capabilities reach those creators inside the workflows they already use.

What you'll be doing
  • Owning APIs and SDKs powering AI asset creation experiences through the entire lifecycle of design, delivery, and support.
  • Ensuring backend services are secure, reliable, and observable, and that they account for failure and recovery scenarios using infrastructure as code.
  • Developing and maintaining new integrations in tight collaboration with our partners to enable improvements to asset workflows.
  • Setting the patterns and practices for AI-assisted development across the team, with appropriate guardrails, feedback loops, and architectural oversight to keep production code quality high as the team's velocity increases.
  • Supporting and improving the team's CI, release, and incident management processes to drive continuous improvement into the system from classes of support issues.
  • Partnering with product, design, and engineering functions across Unity AI to shape the roadmap for appropriate investment in features vs. foundational health.

What we're looking for
  • Extensive experience with C# / .NET building production web APIs. Experience with TypeScript is a plus.
  • Comfort working at multiple levels of abstraction, from the high-level architecture of a feature through developing and supporting the code for it.
  • Demonstrated technical leadership driving architectural decisions broader than a single team and raising the technical judgement of the engineers around you.
  • Track record of designing and evolving APIs and SDKs consumed by multiple teams or external developers, accounting for versioning lifecycle and compatibility validation.
  • Strong interpersonal and communication skills, with successful experience aligning multiple stakeholders to deliver complex solutions.
  • Expertise with cloud offerings including databases, publish-subscribe systems, and observability stacks, plus familiarity with the application patterns where each is appropriate.
  • Proven expertise in debugging, profiling, and optimizing applications in a production environment, including evolving an existing service as scale or interaction complexity grows.

You might also have
  • Experience with Azure or GCP cloud platforms and their offerings.
  • Familiarity with Unity or other 3D engines and game asset pipelines.
  • Experience with generative AI and related model capabilities, their evaluation and usage in game development.
  • Multi-tenant enterprise platform experience: entitlements, metering, usage controls.


Base Salary Range: We determine the base salary range for this role based on your primary work location:

Zone A: $157,800 - $236,800 USD gross

Zone B: $178,300 - $267,500 USD gross

Zone C: $200,400 - $300,600 USD gross

This range reflects the anticipated base salary for this position. Beyond base salary, this role may be eligible for equity awards and participation in our company incentive plans (such as annual discretionary bonuses or sales commissions). The final offer amount will depend on several factors, including geographic location and the candidate's relevant experience, professional background, and skill set.

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

About Unity Technologies

Unity Technologies is a software company that provides a platform for creating and operating interactive, real-time 3D content. The company's platform is used by game developers, architects, automotive designers, filmmakers, and other creators to build and distribute interactive experiences. Unity Technologies was founded in 2004 and is headquartered in San Francisco, California. The company has offices in North America, Europe, and Asia.
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4,000 employees
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2004

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