Software Engineer, User Understanding

Overview

Unity is looking for a Staff Software Developer to join our Vector Ads team, where we build the real-time systems that power Unity's 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. You will help build the core services to understand gamer behavior and collaborate with the machine learning team to deliver optimized ad experiences to millions of gamers.

This is a great opportunity for an engineer who is excited to work on performance-critical systems, collaborate across teams, and grow in a fast-paced environment.

• Design, build, and maintain backend services and APIs that support ad delivery and gamer understanding
• Work on scalable, high-availability systems used across Unity's ads ecosystem
• Collaborate with engineers, product managers, and data teams to deliver new features
• Improve performance, observability, and cost-efficiency of backend systems
• Contribute to architectural decisions and technical direction of the platform

• Experience building backend services at scale
• Proficiency in Golang and Google Cloud
• Familiarity with cloud infrastructure and observability tools (Kubernetes, Ray, etc.)
• Understanding of API design, distributed systems, and system reliability

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

• International relocation support is not available for this position

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. Benefits eligibility, specific offerings, and coverage vary based on the country and employment status. 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 and snacks | Mental Health and Wellbeing programs and support | Employee Resource Groups | Global Employee Assistance Program | Training and development programs | Volunteering and donation matching program

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. Unity is the leading platform to create and grow games and interactive experiences. Creators use Unity across 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.

Note: Unity is an equal opportunity employer. We are committed to fostering an inclusive environment and celebrate our employees across age, race, color, ancestry, national origin, religion, disability, sex, gender identity or expression, sexual orientation, or any other protected status in accordance with applicable law. If you have a disability and need accommodations, please let us know.

Pursuant to the San Francisco Fair Chance Ordinance, we will consider qualified applicants with arrest and conviction records.

This position requires the incumbent to have sufficient knowledge of English to have professional verbal and written exchanges in this language.

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Gross pay salary: $157,800—$300,600 USD