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Unity · 3 hours ago

Staff Backend Engineer, Unity Ads

United States

Full-time

Remote

Lead/Staff

$203K/yr - $304K/yr

Unity is a leading platform for creating and growing games and interactive experiences, and they are seeking a Staff Backend Engineer to join their Unity Ads team. This role involves designing and modernizing backend services and APIs to support ad delivery in a high-scale, low-latency environment while ensuring reliability and performance under heavy traffic.

3D TechnologyReal Time

No H1B

Hiring Manager

Jerson Gusterson

Responsibilities

Design, build, and modernise 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 current backend systems, modernising the legacy stack

Contribute to architectural decisions and technical direction of the platform

Qualification

Backend services at scaleGolangRelational databasesCloud infrastructureObservability toolsAPI designDistributed systemsSystem reliabilityAd tech experienceInfrastructure-as-codeNetworking familiarityCaching familiarityReal-time data pipelinesCollaboration skillsCommunication skills

Required

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.)

Understanding of API design, distributed systems, and system reliability

Strong collaboration and communication skills in a remote-first team environment

Preferred

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

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