Backend Engineer, Unity Ads

San Francisco, CA, USA

Staff Backend Engineer, Unity Ads

Location

San Francisco, CA, USA

Department

Engineering

Requisition

JOBREQ-2514952

Unity is looking for a Staff Backend Engineer to join our Unity 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. 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. You’ll 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.

You’ll 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 who’s 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.

• Design, build, and modernise backend services and APIs that support ad delivery
• 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 current backend systems, modernising the legacy stack
• Contribute to architectural decisions and technical direction of the platform

• 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

• 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

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

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 [NYSE: U] is the leading platform to create and grow games and interactive experiences. Creators, ranging from game developers to artists, architects, automotive designers, infrastructure experts, filmmakers, and more, use Unity to bring their imaginations to life across multiple platforms, from 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 is a proud equal opportunity employer. We are committed to fostering an inclusive, innovative 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. Our differences are strengths that enable us to support the growing and evolving needs of our customers, partners, and collaborators.

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

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