Senior Software Engineer, Backend Data

Unity

full-time

Posted on: 9/20/2025

Origin: • 🇺🇸 United States

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💰 $183,700 - $248,600 per year

Senior

CloudDistributed SystemsGoKubernetesMySQLRaySparkTerraformUnity

About the role

Build the core services behind ad delivery, bidding, reporting, and analytics for Unity’s Vector Ads team
Design, build, and maintain backend services and APIs that support ad delivery
Work on scalable, high-availability systems processing billions of requests daily in a high-scale, low-latency environment
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

Proven 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.)
Spark & Flink experience
Understanding of API design, distributed systems, and system reliability
Experience in ad tech, programmatic advertising, or real-time bidding systems (preferred)
Background with infrastructure-as-code (e.g., Terraform) (preferred)
Familiarity with networking, caching, or real-time data pipelines (preferred)
Sufficient knowledge of English to have professional verbal and written exchanges