Staff Backend Engineer, Parsec

The opportunity
Unity is looking for a Staff Software Developer to join the Parsec team, focused on pushing the boundaries of what's possible in remote collaboration, hybrid work, and enterprise management.

Parsec offers ultra-low latency, high-performance remote access technology that enables creative professionals to work from anywhere, businesses to support hybrid work, and individuals to collaborate in real-time. Our platform delivers near-native performance for creatives, game developers, and enterprise users needing responsive, high-fidelity computing.

You will mentor and guide developers as they design, build, and deploy web applications and services for remote access and cloud administration, and play a key role in designing technical solutions that focus on system performance, reliability, and cost optimization at scale.

What you'll be doing

• Work with senior developers and managers to provide technical design and architecture for Parsec’s APIs, signaling service, and billing to maintain high availability at scale
• Design, build, test, and maintain underlying web applications, APIs, and micro-services
• Maintain clear and effective communication within the team and broader organization
• Mentor other engineers and establish engineering best practices that allow the team to achieve assigned projects and goals
• Operate within a distributed team and collaborate with colleagues both local and remote
• Collaborate with colleagues from product, frontend, native, DevOps, security, and QA

What we're looking for

• Experience building large scale, highly available web apps and APIs (REST, WebSocket) that allow our customers to monitor and control extensive fleets of IT equipment
• Demonstrated ability to orchestrate and manage serverless cloud architecture
• Solid development experience with Golang, JavaScript (TypeScript), MySQL
• Experience using and maintaining observability platforms for: logging, metrics, application monitoring/tracing. (Cloudwatch, Athena and Sentry, etc)
• Experience managing infrastructure costs through cloud service dashboards and alerting
• Experience running a high availability production service or product with on call shifts
• Experience mentoring developers to improve their skills and make them more effective

You might also have

• Experience working with infrastructure-as-code (Terraform)
• Experience with networking technologies (STUN servers, NAT traversal)
• Development experience with native programming language like C and C++
• Working knowledge of the Parsec app and remote access administration dashboards

Additional information

• Relocation support is not available for this position.
• Work visa/immigration sponsorship is not available for this position

Life at Unity
Unity [NYSE: U] is the leading platform to create and grow games and interactive experiences. Creators, ranging from game developers to artists, architects, automotive designers, infrastructure experts, filmmakers, and more, use Unity to bring their imaginations to life across multiple platforms, from mobile, PC, and console, to spatial computing.

As of the third quarter of 2024, more than 70% of the top 1,000 mobile games were made with Unity, and in 2024, Made with Unity applications had an average of 3.7 billion downloads per month. For more information, please visit Unity.

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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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