About the role
Who you are
- 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
- 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
What the job involves
- Unity is looking for a Staff Backend Developer to join our Unity 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
- Our backend infrastructure is designed for reliability and scalability, ensuring seamless ad delivery and optimal performance even under heavy traffic
- As part of the team, you will work on distributed systems that handle real-time ad requests, impression tracking, and user data analytics with strict requirements for uptime and security
- You'll play a critical role in optimizing performance, maintaining service availability, and supporting the development of new monetization features for game developers worldwide
- Security, data privacy, and a positive user experience are central to everything we build
- You’ll help modernize the legacy tech stack and 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, all at a turning point in the company
- 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
About Unity
Unity (NYSE: U) is the world’s leading platform for creating and operating real-time 3D (RT3D) content. Creators, ranging from game developers to artists, architects, automotive designers, filmmakers, and others, use Unity to make their imaginations come to life. Unity is the foundation upon which the world’s most powerful digital content is created. Specifically, Unity’s platform provides a comprehensive set of software solutions to create, run and monetize interactive, real-time 2D and 3D content for mobile phones, tablets, PCs, consoles, and augmented and virtual reality devices. In the fourth quarter of 2021, Unity had, on average, 3.9 billion monthly active end users who consumed content created or operated with its solutions. The applications developed by these creators were downloaded, on average, five billion times per month in 2021. For more information, please visit www.unity.com.
Download Unity: http://unity3d.com/get-unity We're hiring! Visit our careers site: https://careers.unity.com For support, please email: support@unity3d.com
Check us out on our other social channels: Twitter: https://twitter.com/unity Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/unity3d/ Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/unitytechnologies/
About the role
Who you are
- 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
- 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
What the job involves
- Unity is looking for a Staff Backend Developer to join our Unity 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
- Our backend infrastructure is designed for reliability and scalability, ensuring seamless ad delivery and optimal performance even under heavy traffic
- As part of the team, you will work on distributed systems that handle real-time ad requests, impression tracking, and user data analytics with strict requirements for uptime and security
- You'll play a critical role in optimizing performance, maintaining service availability, and supporting the development of new monetization features for game developers worldwide
- Security, data privacy, and a positive user experience are central to everything we build
- You’ll help modernize the legacy tech stack and 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, all at a turning point in the company
- 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
About Unity
Unity (NYSE: U) is the world’s leading platform for creating and operating real-time 3D (RT3D) content. Creators, ranging from game developers to artists, architects, automotive designers, filmmakers, and others, use Unity to make their imaginations come to life. Unity is the foundation upon which the world’s most powerful digital content is created. Specifically, Unity’s platform provides a comprehensive set of software solutions to create, run and monetize interactive, real-time 2D and 3D content for mobile phones, tablets, PCs, consoles, and augmented and virtual reality devices. In the fourth quarter of 2021, Unity had, on average, 3.9 billion monthly active end users who consumed content created or operated with its solutions. The applications developed by these creators were downloaded, on average, five billion times per month in 2021. For more information, please visit www.unity.com.
Download Unity: http://unity3d.com/get-unity We're hiring! Visit our careers site: https://careers.unity.com For support, please email: support@unity3d.com
Check us out on our other social channels: Twitter: https://twitter.com/unity Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/unity3d/ Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/unitytechnologies/