Senior Software Engineer, User Understanding

Opportunity

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’ll help build the core services to understand gamer behavior and closely collaborate with the machine learning team to deliver optimized ad experience to millions of gamers. 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 APls 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

What we’re looking for

• 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

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, graph database, or real‑time data pipelines

Additional information

• Relocation support 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 world’s 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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Language Requirement

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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Compensation

• Note: Certain locations require a good faith disclosure of the base salary range for the role. The actual salary for the successful candidate may differ based on location, experience, and other job‑related factors. Gross pay salary$135,800—$203,600 USD