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Manager, Software Engineering, Game Servers & Hosting
3 years ago
Develop the tools for creators to build incredible things
Developing the Unity platform means designing, building, testing, and maintaining new features and products that enable artists, modellers and developers to create rich and interactive content. We are driving the future of how content is created and experienced.
The opportunity
We are re-inventing the way online multiplayer games are built, launched and supported. We focus on providing innovative infrastructure solutions that ease the development and launch of online games. We proudly provide hybrid multi-cloud scaling technology and 24/7 live operations for some of the world’s biggest games. At our core, we are passionate about gaming, keeping gamers online and ensuring they get the best possible experience!
We are looking for a Manager, Software Engineering who shares our passion for games, hyper-scale automation and distributed systems. Your role will include the hiring, management, growth, and retention of top engineering talent, project management and execution of high-quality services that are scalable, idempotent in nature, and resilient to failure as well as providing technical leadership to a distributed cross-functional engineering team.
What you'll be doing
- Develop and grow your colleagues, and work deeply with them to achieve their potential. You will be responsible for a cross-functional engineering team.
- Enable and support others to work on the software and services that power our scaling platform by reviewing pull requests, ensuring quality, and encouraging others towards user first outcomes
- Occasionally contribute directly to the product and participate in hands-on software development when required
- Drive day-to-day execution and delivery of tasks and leading the project team with Lean and Agile methodologies, motivating your team by explaining how their work relates to the wider business objectives
- Collaborate with your Product partner and Senior Engineering leadership to conceptualise, prioritise and develop new products for our Game Servers & Hosting business
What we are looking for
- The ability to be a team mentor, lead by example, and build trust and solid relationships
- Proven experience in a professional software engineering language such as Go, C++ or a similar language
- Experience with at least one but ideally multiple public cloud providers such as AWS, GCP, Azure or Tencent
- Experience as an Engineering Manager overseeing a small to medium size team working on cloud-based service products
- Strong collaboration and communication skills in English
You might also have
- Experience in leading a team within a fast-paced agile environment
- Experience in building performant, large scale distributed systems
- Experience with Nomad, Kubernetes, Docker, and Helm
Life at Unity
Unity is the world’s leading platform for creating and operating real-time 3D (RT3D) content. Creators, ranging from game developers to artists, architects, automotive designers, filmmakers, and others, use Unity to make their imaginations come to life. Unity’s platform provides a comprehensive set of software solutions to create, run and monetize interactive, real-time 2D and 3D content for mobile phones, tablets, PCs, consoles, and augmented and virtual reality devices.
The company’s 1,400+ person research and development team keeps Unity at the forefront of development by working alongside partners to ensure optimized support for the latest releases and platforms. Apps developed by Unity creators were downloaded more than three billion times per month in 2019 on more than two billion unique devices. For more information, please visit www.unity.com.
Unity is an equal opportunity employer committed to fostering an inclusive, innovative environment with the best employees. Therefore, we provide employment opportunities without regard to 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. If there are preparations we can make to help ensure you have a comfortable and positive interview experience, please let us know.
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