Staff Data Engineer, Unity Ads

The opportunity
Join Ads Supply Engineering as our first dedicated Staff Data Engineer, where you'll architect and build the foundational data infrastructure that powers analytics and ML across our ads organization. You'll work at the intersection of high-scale distributed systems and critical business impact—processing petabytes of data daily from event streams that directly drive company revenue.

Short-term success (90 days): Deliver 5 production-ready enriched data pipelines, establishing reliable data contracts between our product teams and downstream consumers.

Long-term success: Become the technical authority for ads product data across the organization, defining standards and patterns that scale across multiple product teams, and potentially growing this into a dedicated team.

Your impact: You'll transform how SDK, Ads-Exchange, and Ads Trust & Safety teams deliver data—upgrading to state of the art standardized streaming pipelines. Your work will directly enable better analytics, ML models, and ultimately better ads products.

Why this role: This is a blend of building new data infrastructure and evolving existing streams, with the opportunity to shape the data strategy for ads supply. You'll have direct access to leadership and the autonomy to establish the technical and strategic direction for producer-side data—a voice that's currently missing in the organization.

What you'll be doing

• Design and build real-time streaming data pipelines that transform raw product events into enriched, standardized datasets processing petabytes of data daily

• Define data contracts and schemas that unify disparate product signals (e.g., harmonizing how different products define "clicks" or mapping bundle IDs to internal game IDs)

• Collaborate with SDK, Ads-Exchange, and Ads Trust & Safety teams to understand their data semantics and translate product requirements into scalable pipeline architectures

• Establish best practices and patterns for streaming data transformations that can scale across the ads organization, leveraging technologies like Kafka, GCP, and NoSQL databases

• Partner with the Data Platform team to ensure smooth handoffs to downstream reporting and aggregation pipelines while maintaining reliability and SLAs through on-call support

What we're looking for

• Proven experience in building and maintaining standardized, reliable data enrichment pipelines.

• Expertise in establishing data contracts and enrichment patterns.

• Strong understanding of streaming architectures and data modeling.

• Proficiency with technologies such as Kafka and Google Cloud Platform (GCP).

• Ability to serve as a technical and strategic voice for data, bridging the needs of data producers and consumers.

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 world’s 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 www.unity.com.

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Gross pay salary
$200,000—$290,000 USD