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Senior Backend Engineer, Programmatic

Unity Technologies
San Francisco, CA Full Time
POSTED ON 4/23/2025 CLOSED ON 4/23/2025

What are the responsibilities and job description for the Senior Backend Engineer, Programmatic position at Unity Technologies?

The opportunity At Unity, our mission goes beyond democratizing development: we empower creators to grow, monetize, and transform their content into successful ventures. Unity Ads plays a pivotal role in app monetization, helping developers maximize revenue and acquire new users. Our Unity Grow Programmatic Team focuses on providing a highly performant ad exchange. In this role, you'll be developing services and systems to connect the unique supply and demand of our network. We leverage cloud infrastructure to develop fault tolerant distributed systems to service customers in sub second latencies over billions of requests per day. Code you write will improve the efficiency of high volume systems, and impact the experience of our customers. What you'll be doing Build, productionalize, and maintain scalable cloud based systems Design and implement high throughput services spanning all of Unity Optimize systems to provide best in class latency and uptime Translate product requirements into a technical design and implement solutions using all resources available to you Test, Deploy and Maintain production ready code Integration of live production systems with external applications Collaboration with our SDK team to deliver backend configuration changes to support new features Design and Rollout Experimental A/B Tests of new features What we're looking for Proficient and strong knowledge of Go, Python, or C++ Experience in distributed systems with external database storage Experience in API definition and REST architecture Understanding of system optimizations and performance analysis Experience with high throughput low latency systems Experience navigating, deploying, and monitoring services hosted in the cloud (GCP preferred) Strong understanding of Cloud Design Patterns like Pub/Sub, Circuit Breakers, or Throttling You might also have Experience in the ad tech industry Experience with IAB or OpenRTB Standards Experience in programmatic ads, mobile ads, gaming Additional information Relocation support is not available for this position. Life at Unity 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. Unity is a proud equal opportunity employer. We are committed to fostering an inclusive, innovative environment and celebrate our employees across age, race, color, ancestry, national origin, religion, disability, sex, gender identity or expression, sexual orientation, or any other protected status in accordance with applicable law. Our differences are strengths that enable us to support the growing and evolving needs of our customers, partners, and collaborators. If there are preparations or accommodations we can make to help ensure you have a comfortable and positive interview experience, please fill out this form to let us know. Pursuant to the San Francisco Fair Chance Ordinance, we will consider for employment qualified applicants with arrest and conviction records. 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. Headhunters and recruitment agencies may not submit resumes/CVs through this Web site or directly to managers. Unity does not accept unsolicited headhunter and agency resumes. Unity will not pay fees to any third-party agency or company that does not have a signed agreement with Unity. Your privacy is important to us. Please take a moment to review our Prospect Privacy Policy and Applicant Privacy Policy. Should you have any concerns about your privacy, please contact us at DPO@unity.com. #SEN #LI-AR1 *Note: Certain locations require a good faith disclosure of the base salary range for the role. The actual salary for the successful candidate may differ based on location, experience, and other job-related factors. Gross pay salary$115,400—$219,700 USD

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