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Unity · 18 hours ago

Staff SDK Engineer, Unity Ads (Android)

United States

Full-time

Remote

Lead/Staff

$200K/yr - $301K/yr

8+ years exp

Unity is the leading platform to create and grow games and interactive experiences. They are hiring a Staff SDK Engineer to lead the Android Ads SDK, define architecture strategy, and ensure stability and performance while collaborating with various teams.

3D TechnologyReal Time

No H1B

Hiring Manager

Jerson Gusterson

Responsibilities

Act as the technical owner and system leader for the Android Ads SDK, coordinating work across engineers and SDK components

Lead architectural evolution of the Android SDK, enabling the platform to scale to support additional capabilities while maintaining a stable and simple integration experience for developers

Serve as the technical decision maker and escalation point for complex Android platform issues, reducing delivery risk and operational overhead

Own Android SDK stability and performance outcomes, with direct accountability for reducing ANRs, crashes, and performance regressions that impact developer trust and revenue

Lead the incremental modernization of a large, legacy SDK while continuing to ship features and support existing integrations

Proactively improve existing architectural structures, engineering processes, and quality standards to reduce operational and stability risk

Exercise strong technical judgment when reconciling competing priorities (performance, reliability, monetization impact, development velocity, backwards compatibility)

Identify recurring problems and abstracts them into reusable, generalized solutions across SDK and ad products

Partner closely with product, data, backend, and iOS teams to define shared contracts, rollout strategies, and technical guardrails

Collaborate with engineering leadership to set and raise standards for SDK engineering rigor, including design reviews, reliability metrics, and release practices

Serve as a trusted technical representative for the Android SDK in cross-team and partner discussions, influencing platform-level decisions

Qualification

Android developmentKotlinSDK architecture designAds SDKs familiarityMobile security best practicesCross-platform SDK experienceTechnical judgmentLeadershipCollaboration

Required

8+ years of professional mobile development experience, with deep specialization in Android

Familiarity with Ads SDKs, monetization platforms, mediation, or webview based rendering systems

Strong proficiency in Kotlin

Demonstrated experience designing and evolving SDK architectures, including API surface design, initialization models, and backwards compatibility

Experience leading or owning large-scale refactors or architectural migrations with minimal disruption to existing customers

Experience working across Android and iOS SDKs, including defining shared cross platform contracts

Experience with SDK observability, diagnostics, and experiment driven rollouts

Understanding of mobile security and best practices, especially in SDK environments

Prior experience operating in high scale, consumer facing platforms with strong reliability requirements

Benefits

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.

Company

Unity

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Unity [NYSE: U] offers a suite of tools to create, market, and grow games and interactive experiences across all major platforms from mobile, PC, and console, to extended reality.

Founded in 2004

San Francisco, California, USA

5001-10000 employees