Staff Data Engineer- Ads reporting

San Francisco, CA, USA

Staff Data Engineer- Ads reporting

Location

San Francisco, CA, USA

Department

Templates

Requisition ID

JOBREQ-2615909

Role description
The opportunity
Unity is building a robust, near real-time reporting platform that powers critical analytics and decision-making across our ecosystem. We are looking for a Data Engineer to help architect and implement the distributed data systems that drive this platform at scale.

In this role, you’ll design and build high-throughput, low-latency data processing pipelines that power reporting used by internal teams and external customers. You’ll operate at the intersection of distributed systems, stream processing, and cloud-native infrastructure — ensuring correctness, reliability, and scalability in a high-volume production environment.

This is a high-impact role where engineering rigor, architectural clarity, and production ownership matter.

What you'll be doing

Design and implement near real-time data pipelines and reporting infrastructure.

Architect distributed stream and batch processing systems using technologies such as Apache Flink, Spark, and Airflow.

Build and maintain data processing frameworks that handle large-scale event ingestion and transformation with strong correctness guarantees.

Ensure production-grade reliability, observability, and operability across distributed systems.

Define and enforce data processing semantics including:

Exactly-once processing

Event time vs. processing time handling

Stateful stream management

Backpressure and fault tolerance strategies

Collaborate cross-functionally with data consumers, product, and infrastructure teams to define scalable reporting solutions.

Contribute to long-term platform architecture, setting engineering standards for performance, resilience, and maintainability.

What we're looking for

Strong foundation in distributed systems and systems design.

Hands-on experience building and operating large-scale data processing systems.

Deep understanding of streaming concepts:

Exactly-once semantics

Watermarking and event-time processing

Stateful stream processing

Checkpointing and recovery

Backpressure handling

Production experience with frameworks such as Apache Flink, Spark, Kafka, or similar technologies.

Proficiency in Python, Java, or Scala.

Experience with workflow orchestration tools (e.g., Airflow) for stream and batch coordination.

Strong understanding of cloud-native architectures and distributed infrastructure (Kubernetes, containerization, cloud platforms).

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

Legal Information
Unity is a proud equal opportunity employer. We are committed to fostering an inclusive, innovative environment and celebrate our employees across age, race, color, ancestry, national origin, religion, disability, sex, gender identity or expression, sexual orientation, or any other protected status in accordance with applicable law. Our differences are strengths that enable us to support the growing and evolving needs of our customers, partners, and collaborators. If you have a disability that means there are preparations or accommodations we can make to help ensure you have a comfortable and positive interview experience, please fill out this form (https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLSdrbRLG1N-apH1eahQ622Gypo-rmiAB6LLTP1UsSWQNu7omxQ/viewform) to let us know.

Pursuant to the San Francisco Fair Chance Ordinance, we will consider for employment qualified applicants with arrest and conviction records.

This position requires the incumbent to have a sufficient knowledge of English to have professional verbal and written exchanges in this language since the performance of the duties related to this position requires frequent and regular communication with colleagues and partners located worldwide and whose common language is English.

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Gross pay salary

$178,300–$267,500 USD

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