Senior Software Engineer

📋 Description

• • As a Senior Software Engineer on Unity Technologies' Studio Productions team in Copenhagen, you will play a pivotal role in helping global game studios overcome complex technical challenges, optimize performance, and successfully ship titles using the Unity engine—directly impacting the quality and success of some of the world’s most played games.
• • You will collaborate closely with external customer development teams to co-develop games and production tools, scope and estimate project timelines, provide technical feedback to Unity’s internal engineering teams, and troubleshoot issues both remotely and on-site, ensuring client projects meet performance, visual, and platform-specific goals.
• • The Studio Productions team is a specialized, customer-facing unit within Unity that bridges external developers with internal engine teams, leveraging deep expertise in Unity to solve real-world production problems across mobile, PC, console, and XR platforms.
• • In this role, you will deepen your mastery of advanced Unity technologies such as DOTS, ECS, and modern render pipelines (URP/HDRP), sharpen your cross-functional communication and mentoring skills, and gain exposure to diverse game development workflows while contributing to the evolution of Unity’s engine through direct customer feedback.
• • Working closely with external customer teams to develop games and game production tools.
• • Scoping, estimating, and assisting in the planning of customer projects.
• • Building close relationships with Unity’s internal development teams, and providing customer feedback and production verification of future features of Unity technology and services.
• • Efficiently solving problems, communicating, and educating clients, both remotely and on-site at their offices.
• • Proactively training yourself to remain at the forefront of Unity Engine technology and game content creation technology.
• • Visiting customers for short-term consultations and giving them advice on how to improve their existing projects.
• • Demonstrating experience on a variety of game projects and platforms, not necessarily all Unity.
• • Adapting to customer production environments and, in some cases, taking over work streams in collaboration with the customer.
• • Understanding the technical challenges related to complex game development environments.
• • Working closely in a team to plan, coordinate, communicate work intentions, progress, and deliver work in a timely manner, dealing with the usual complications of game development.
• • Working independently, identifying and clarifying tasks, assisting the Project Manager and more inexperienced developers.
• • Developing and debugging code written in large multithreaded C# or C++ codebases using a multi-platform engine (e.g., Unity, Unreal, in-house).
• • Possessing deep technical expertise in the Unity ecosystem, including C#, ScriptableObjects, Addressables, Unity Lifecycle, and modern render pipelines (URP/HDRP).
• • Acting as a proactive mentor who excels at technical documentation and cross-departmental problem-solving.
• • Proven ability to profile and optimize CPU, GPU, and memory usage using the Unity Profiler, Frame Debugger, and RenderDoc.
• • Translating complex technical topics into understandable concepts for both technical and non-technical stakeholders.
• • Experience shipping and maintaining titles across diverse hardware (Mobile, PC, or Console) with an understanding of platform-specific constraints.
• • Experience (or strong interest) in high-performance paradigms like DOTS, ECS, and the C# Job System.
• • Experience with Version Control (Git/Perforce) in a production environment.
• • Experience in delivering training/technical talks and writing technical articles.
• • Awareness of AI/ML workflows and an understanding of how to leverage emerging technologies to deconstruct and solve complex problems.