Sr. Software Engineer, Backend Data

Posted 23 Days Ago
Hiring Remotely in USA
Remote or Hybrid
184K-249K Annually
Senior level
AdTech • Artificial Intelligence • Gaming • Machine Learning • Software • Virtual Reality • Metaverse
Unity is the leading platform to create and grow games and interactive experiences.
The Role
The Senior Software Developer will design, build, and maintain backend services and APIs for Unity's advertising platform, focusing on performance, scalability, and collaboration across teams.
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The opportunity
Unity is looking for a Senior 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’ll help build 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.

What you'll be doing

  • Design, build, and maintain 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 backend systems
  • Contribute to architectural decisions and technical direction of the platform

What we're looking for

  • Proven 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.)
  • Spark & Flink experience
  • Understanding of API design, distributed systems, and system reliability

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.

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.

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 you have a disability that means 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.

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.

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Gross pay salary
$183,700$248,600 USD

Top Skills

Flink
Go
Kubernetes
MySQL
Ray
Spark
Terraform
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The Company
HQ: New York, NY
4,500 Employees
Year Founded: 2004

What We Do

Creators, ranging from game developers to artists, architects, automotive designers, infrastructure experts, manufacturers, and more, use Unity to bring their imaginations to life across all major platforms, from mobile, PC, and console, to extended reality (XR).

Why Work With Us

We believe the world is a better place with more creators in it. This is at the core of our business because we believe our technology can change the world. Our products give content creators the tools to not just entertain but to create innovative RT3D experiences and deliver better processes for almost every industry.

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