Staff Backend Engineer, Unity Ads
About The Position
Unity is looking for a Staff Backend Engineer 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.
Requirements
- 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
Nice To Haves
- 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
Responsibilities
- 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
Benefits
- 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.
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What This Job Offers
Job Type
Full-time
Career Level
Mid Level
Education Level
No Education Listed
Number of Employees
1,001-5,000 employees
