Senior Software Engineer, Infrastructure

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San Francisco, CA
Hybrid
136K-259K Annually
Senior level
Artificial Intelligence • Gaming • Machine Learning • Software • Virtual Reality • Design • Metaverse
Unity is the world’s leading platform for creating and operating real-time 3D (RT3D) content.
The Role
Develop backend services for Unity Ads, focusing on scalable distributed systems, optimizing ad delivery, and collaborating with cross-functional teams.
Summary Generated by Built In

The opportunity
At Unity, our mission goes beyond democratizing development: we empower creators to grow, monetize, and transform their content into successful ventures. Unity Ads plays a pivotal role in app monetization, helping developers maximize revenue and acquire new users.

Our Unity Exchange Team focuses on providing a highly performant ad exchange. In this role, you'll be developing services and systems to connect the unique supply and demand of our network. We leverage cloud infrastructure to develop fault tolerant distributed systems to service customers in sub second latencies over billions of requests per day. You’ll work on backend services, infrastructure, and data pipelines that drive efficient and reliable ad delivery, collaborating with cross-functional teams to improve performance, observability, and scalability.

What you'll be doing

  • Design and implement backend services that power Unity Ads, in collaboration with other engineers, product managers, and data teams.
  • Work with Aerospike, Redis, BigQuery, and MongoDB to ensure fast and reliable data access.
  • Utilize GCP, Kubernetes (GKE), Terraform, Helm, and Docker to deploy and scale services in a cloud environment.
  • Build and maintain multi-region architectures, gRPC-based services, and internal load balancing to optimize ad-serving efficiency.
  • Enhance system monitoring through metrics, tracing, logging, alerting, and runbooks to ensure stability and performance.
  • Utilize Kafka and event-driven architectures to process large-scale ad requests in real-time.
  • Improve developer velocity by automating deployments and testing with GitHub Actions, Jenkins, and Argo Stack, and design and roll out experimental A/B tests for new features.

What we're looking for

  • Proficient and strong knowledge of Go, Python, or C++.
  • Experience in distributed, high throughput and low latency systems with external database storage.
  • Solid understanding of networking concepts such as gRPC, protobuf, and multi-region architectures.
  • Experience managing large-scale databases and optimizing data access patterns.
  • Hands-on experience with cloud infrastructure (GCP preferred) and Kubernetes-based deployment.
  • Familiarity with observability tools for monitoring system performance and troubleshooting.
  • Strong problem-solving skills, with the ability to debug, optimize large-scale systems, and drive performance analysis and optimizations.
  • A collaborative mindset, with excellent communication skills for working in a cross-functional team.

You might also have

  • Experience in the ad tech or gaming industry.
  • Strong understanding of Cloud Design Patterns like Pub/Sub, Circuit Breakers, or Throttling.
  • Knowledge of cost optimization strategies in cloud environments.

Additional information

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

Life at Unity
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.

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. If there are preparations or accommodations we can make to help ensure you have a comfortable and positive interview experience, please fill out this form to let us know.

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

This position requires the incumbent to have a sufficient knowledge of English to have professional verbal and written exchanges in this language since the performance of the duties related to this position requires frequent and regular communication with colleagues and partners located worldwide and whose common language is English.

Headhunters and recruitment agencies may not submit resumes/CVs through this Web site or directly to managers. Unity does not accept unsolicited headhunter and agency resumes. Unity will not pay fees to any third-party agency or company that does not have a signed agreement with Unity.

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Gross pay salary

$135,800$258,600 USD

Top Skills

Aerospike
Argo Stack
BigQuery
C++
Docker
GCP
Github Actions
Go
Helm
Jenkins
Kafka
Kubernetes
MongoDB
Python
Redis
Terraform
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The Company
HQ: San Fransisco, CA
5,500 Employees
Hybrid Workplace
Year Founded: 2004

What We Do

Unity is the world’s leading platform for creating and operating real-time 3D (RT3D) content. Creators, ranging from game developers to artists, architects, automotive designers, filmmakers, and others, use Unity to make their imaginations come to life.

Why Work With Us

We believe the world is a better place with more creators in it. We're powering the real-time revolution, expanding beyond games and breaking into other industries including film, architecture, engineering and more. Apps developed by Unity creators were downloaded more than three billion times per month in 2019 more than two billion unique devices

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