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Senior Software Engineer, User Understanding

Full-time

Unity Technologies

The 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 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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