Staff Backend Engineer, Parsec

Unity Technologies

Sacramento, CA

Full Time

Senior

158k-237k

11 days ago

Job Description

About the Role

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, support hybrid work, and collaborate in real-time. The platform delivers near-native performance for creatives, game developers, and enterprise users needing responsive, high-fidelity computing. The role involves mentoring developers, designing scalable technical solutions, and contributing to system performance, reliability, and cost optimization.

Key Responsibilities

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

Requirements

Experience building large scale, highly available web apps and APIs (REST, WebSocket) that allow 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 (e.g., Cloudwatch, Athena, Sentry)
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 effectiveness

Nice to Have

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

Qualifications

Professional proficiency in English for verbal and written communication

Benefits & Perks

Gross pay salary range of $157,800-$236,800 USD
Work environment that supports remote work
Opportunity to work on innovative, high-performance remote access technology

Working at Unity Technologies

Unity is a proud equal opportunity employer committed to fostering an inclusive, innovative environment. They celebrate diversity across age, race, color, ancestry, national origin, religion, disability, sex, gender identity or expression, sexual orientation, or any other protected status. Unity values differences as strengths that support the growing and evolving needs of their customers, partners, and collaborators.

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