About the role
About Unity Services Foundation
In addition to our Editor and Engine, Unity offers a variety of solutions for building games and real-time data enhanced 3D experiences. Our team, Unity Services Foundation, is essential in this effort, providing foundational features to all internal service teams building Cloud services. As a platform team, we enable our internal users to save time and effort, allowing them to focus on developing unique features for their services. We build core functionality so internal teams don't have to reinvent the wheel.
We are looking for a Senior Software Engineer to join our team in Montreal. You will be the technical anchor for our core API Gateway platform, which processes a billion daily calls, and shapes how Web APIs are built and operated across Unity. Our Gateway platform provides foundational features to handle authentication, authorization, rate limiting, core entities management and many other features to develop, publish and operate APIs at scale. Our goal is to make it simple for service teams to expose endpoints through our Gateways and use core API features using our platform directly — while ensuring high API standards and consistency across all Unity services.
This is a technical leadership role. You will still write and ship code regularly, but a significant part of your time goes to defining how problems get solved, and often what problem we should be solving in the first place. You will be comfortable with ambiguity, act as the engineering manager's technical right hand, and be the person whose involvement makes delivery predictable. Your influence will not stop at our team's boundary: you'll carry an outlook on how our domain interacts with the rest of Unity Services Foundation, and you'll take what works here and help apply it across the wider organization.
What You'll Be Doing
- Serve as the primary technical anchor for the Gateway domain — own the architectural health of our systems end to end, from design through implementation, testing, and long-term operation.
- Act as a force multiplier: mentor engineers, set the bar for technical excellence by example, and proliferate good practices across the team and adjacent teams.
- Full technical ownership: work with stakeholders to identify and address technical debt, take charge during critical incidents, bringing clarity and resolution.
- Partner with the engineering manager, product manager, and stakeholders as the first responder on intake: turn ambiguous friction into a defined problem with clear scope and requirements.
- Own long-term technical planning for the domain — identify gaps and technical debt proactively, propose the work, and build alignment behind it.
- Contribute beyond the team to organization-wide technical initiatives, such as shared libraries, infrastructure, API standards, security and compliance work, and the technical leadership community across USF.
What We're Looking For
- Extensive track record designing, developing and operating high-quality web services and/or gateway solutions at scale, including as the person accountable for the outcome.
- Demonstrated technical leadership: mentoring engineers, raising the engineering bar of a team, and driving multi-quarter initiatives that span systems and teams.
- Ability to operate with ambiguity — to take a vague problem, define it with stakeholders, and lead it to a shipped solution.
- Strong communication skills and the ability to influence technical direction across teams, stakeholders, and leadership, including the judgment to push back when a proposal doesn't hold up.
- Experience building and evolving platforms and APIs used by many other engineering teams.
- Strong experience in Golang / TypeScript, or any other commonly used language for web development, with a bias toward staying hands-on.
- Solid experience with Google Cloud (or any of the other major Cloud platforms), including production operations and incident response.
- Expertise with Kubernetes.
You Might Also Have (Optional)
- Expertise with Gateway related technologies (Istio, Envoy, etc.).
- Experience defining API standards or governance across a large organization.
- Experience leading a technical committee, guild, or similar cross-team forum.
- Experience with security and compliance frameworks such as SOC 2.
- Experience with ArgoCD.
Base Salary Range
We determine the base salary range for this role based on your primary work location:
- Zone A: CA$125,300 - CA$175,300 CAD gross
- Zone B: CA$135,400 - CA$203,000 CAD 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
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.
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 to let us know.
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.