Senior Software Developer

San Francisco, CA, USA

Senior Software Developer

Location

San Francisco, CA, USA

Department

Engineering

Requisition ID

JOBREQ-2515067

Role description

The opportunity

Unity is looking for a Senior 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 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.

What you'll be doing

Design, build, and maintain 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 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, or real-time data pipelines

Additional information

• Relocation support is not available for this position

Life at Unity

We offer a wide range of benefits designed to support employees' well-being and work-life balance. You can read more about them on our career page () .

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 () .

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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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Gross pay salary

$135,800-$203,600 USD