Staff Software Engineer, SDK Development - Unity Ads

Unity Technologies • San Francisco, CA

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About The Position

We invite you to take on a meaningful role as Staff SDK Engineer, where you'll play a key part in advancing the design and development of scalable, privacy-conscious signal collection systems within our Ads organization. You will play a vital part in gathering, validating, and utilizing behavioral signals across client applications to empower groundbreaking machine learning use cases, such as ad targeting, ranking, and optimization. This is your chance to work at the exciting intersection of SDK development, machine learning, and data infrastructure. Join us to create innovative solutions that propel advertising technology forward, impacting billions of global ad experiences while ensuring privacy and compliance.

Requirements

• Strong proficiency in client application platforms like iOS, Android, Unity, or C++.
• Proven track record in event-based data collection, telemetry, and analytics frameworks.
• Experience in data preprocessing and quality assurance for machine learning pipelines.
• Familiarity with experimentation frameworks, including A/B testing and signal gating.
• Ability to work effectively in multi-functional teams and lead initiatives across SDK, infrastructure, and ML platform teams.

Nice To Haves

• Knowledge of real-time and batch data pipelines like Kafka, Flink, or Spark.
• Expertise in privacy techniques, consent management, or differential privacy.
• Experience in ad tech or monetization systems.

Responsibilities

• Designing, implementing, and maintaining SDKs that collect high-quality behavioral and contextual signals from client applications such as mobile, desktop, and Unity.
• Establishing and promoting instrumentation standards to ensure high-quality data collection for machine learning systems.
• Collaborating with multi-functional teams, including ML scientists, data engineers, and product managers, to adapt SDKs to evolving ML needs.
• Developing tools and frameworks to validate, monitor, and test collected data in production environments.
• Partnering with privacy and legal teams to ensure compliance with global regulations, such as GDPR and CCPA, while prioritizing user consent.

What This Job Offers

• Job Type: Full-time
• Career Level: Senior
• Industry: Professional, Scientific, and Technical Services
• Number of Employees: 1,001-5,000 employees