Senior Software Developer, Backend Data

Unity

full-time

Posted on: 9/20/2025

Origin: • 🇨🇦 Canada

✨ AI Apply

💰 CA$125,300 - CA$187,900 per year

Senior

CloudDistributed SystemsGoKubernetesMySQLRaySparkTerraformUnity

About the role

Build the core services behind ad delivery, bidding, reporting, and analytics for Unity's ads platform
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
Operate in a high-scale, low-latency environment processing billions of requests daily to deliver fast, relevant ads worldwide

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)
Familiarity with networking, caching, or real-time data pipelines
Sufficient knowledge of English to have professional verbal and written exchanges