
Staff Software Engineer, User Understanding
at Unity Software
Posted 9 hours ago
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- Compensation
- $157,800 – $236,800 USD
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- Not specified
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Join Unity's Vector Ads team as a Staff Software Engineer to design, build, and maintain backend services and APIs powering ad delivery and gamer understanding at a massive scale. This role operates in a high-availability, low-latency environment and requires close collaboration with ML and data teams to deliver optimized ad experiences. You will contribute to architectural decisions, improve performance and observability, and help drive the platform's technical direction. Proficiency in Golang and Google Cloud, plus a solid grasp of APIs, distributed systems, and reliability, are key for success.
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
- International 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 www.unity.com.
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