Staff Backend Engineer, Unity Ads

San Francisco, CA - USA

Monthly Salary: Not Disclosed

Posted on: 3 days ago

Vacancies: 1 Vacancy

Job Summary

The opportunity
Unity is looking for a Staff Backend Engineer to join our Unity Ads team where we build the real-time systems that power Unitys global advertising platform. This is a high-scale low-latency environment processing billions of requests daily to deliver fast relevant ads to players around the world. Our backend infrastructure is designed for reliability and scalability ensuring seamless ad delivery and optimal performance even under heavy traffic.

As part of the team you will work on distributed systems that handle real-time ad requests impression tracking and user data analytics with strict requirements for uptime and security. Youll play a critical role in optimizing performance maintaining service availability and supporting the development of new monetization features for game developers worldwide. Security data privacy and a positive user experience are central to everything we build.

Youll help modernize the legacy tech stack and the core services behind ad delivery bidding reporting and analytics. This is a great opportunity for an engineer whos excited to work on performance-critical systems collaborate across teams and grow in a fast-paced environment all at a turning point in the company.

What youll be doing

Design build and modernise backend services and APIs that support ad delivery
Work on scalable high-availability systems used across Unitys ads ecosystem
Collaborate with engineers product managers and data teams to deliver new features
Improve performance observability and cost-efficiency of current backend systems modernising the legacy stack
Contribute to architectural decisions and technical direction of the platform

What were looking for

Experience building backend services at scale
Proficiency in Golang and relational databases (e.g. MySQL)
Familiarity with cloud infrastructure and observability tools (Kubernetes Ray etc.)
Understanding of API design distributed systems and system reliability
Strong collaboration and communication skills in a remote-first team environment

You might also have

Experience in ad tech programmatic advertising or real-time bidding systems
Background with infrastructure-as-code (e.g. Terraform)
Familiarity with networking caching or real-time data pipelines

Additional information

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

Life at Unity

We offer a wide range of benefits designed to support employees well-being and work-life balance. You can read more about them on our career page.

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The opportunityUnity is looking for a Staff Backend Engineer to join our Unity Ads team where we build the real-time systems that power Unitys global advertising platform. This is a high-scale low-latency environment processing billions of requests daily to deliver fast relevant ads to players arou...

What youll be doing

Design build and modernise backend services and APIs that support ad delivery
Work on scalable high-availability systems used across Unitys ads ecosystem
Collaborate with engineers product managers and data teams to deliver new features
Improve performance observability and cost-efficiency of current backend systems modernising the legacy stack
Contribute to architectural decisions and technical direction of the platform

What were looking for

Experience building backend services at scale
Proficiency in Golang and relational databases (e.g. MySQL)
Familiarity with cloud infrastructure and observability tools (Kubernetes Ray etc.)
Understanding of API design distributed systems and system reliability
Strong collaboration and communication skills in a remote-first team environment

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