Senior Back-End Developer

The opportunity
At Unity were committed to building a culture that fosters collaboration and innovation. Within our fast-paced environment were tackling complex challenges that drive meaningful impact for creators and users across our ecosystem.

Our Vector AI team plays a crucial role in shaping the future of Unitys monetization products. We are seeking a Senior Backend Engineer (Distributed Systems) to scale the next generation of high-scale inference systems for Unity Ads.

In this role you will be responsible for designing developing and maintaining the backend infrastructure that powers our large-scale advertising models with a focus on the performance reliability and scalability of inference systems. You will collaborate closely with machine learning research product and engineering teams to build and operate the critical services that support our advertising capabilities.

What youll be doing

• Design develop and deploy scalable high-performance and production-grade backend services and distributed systems to support large-scale model inference.
• Contribute significantly to the technical roadmap and design of our inference platform focusing on low-latency high-throughput services.
• Ensure the reliability scalability and efficiency of our systems in production using monitoring and observability tools like Prometheus and Grafana.
• Partner cross-functionally with data science product and engineering teams to align platform capabilities with strategic business goals.
• Manage and optimize our cloud infrastructure (GCP) and orchestrate workloads with Kubernetes.
• Promote and implement best practices for backend service development testing deployment and monitoring (DevOps SRE).

What were looking for

• Background in Software Engineering or a related technical field.
• Extensive hands-on experience designing deploying and maintaining distributed systems at scale including managing cloud infrastructure on GCP and orchestrating workloads with Kubernetes.
• Expertise in Golang for building high-performance low-latency systems and infrastructure.
• Deep experience with monitoring and observability tools (e.g. Prometheus Grafana).
• Familiarity with microservice architectures containerization (Docker) and CI/CD best practices.
• Excellent communication and collaboration skills with an ability to articulate technical concepts to both technical and non-technical audiences.

Additional information

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

Benefits
At Unity we want our team members to thrive. We offer a wide range of benefits designed to support well-being and work-life balance.

Please note: Benefits eligibility specific offerings and coverage vary based on the country and employment status.

While specific benefits vary here are some of the ways we strive to take care of our eligible team members globally: Comprehensive health life and disability insurance Commute subsidy Employee stock ownership Competitive retirement/pension plans Generous vacation and personal days Support for new parents through leave and family-care programs Office food snacks Mental Health and Wellbeing programs and support Employee Resource Groups Global Employee Assistance Program Training and development programs Volunteering and donation matching program

Life at Unity
Unity NYSE: U is the worlds leading game engine powering play for more than 3 billion consumers each month. The top mobile games in the world the most played PC indie titles the most innovative console games and virtually all of the top XR and Web Games are developed deployed and grown in Unity. Unity also enables teams across industries like automotive manufacturing and healthcare to design simulate and collaborate in 3D closing the gap between ideas and reality. For more information please visit .

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