The opportunity At Unity, we’re committed to building a culture that fosters collaboration and innovation. Within our fast-paced environment, we’re tackling complex challenges that drive meaningful impact for creators and users across our ecosystem.
Our Vector AI team plays a crucial role in shaping the future of Unity’s monetization products. We are seeking a Senior Backend Engineer (Distributed Systems) to scale the next generation of high-scale inference systems for Unity Ads.
In this role, you will be responsible for designing, developing, and maintaining the backend infrastructure that powers our large-scale advertising models, with a focus on the performance, reliability, and scalability of inference systems. You will collaborate closely with machine learning research, product, and engineering teams to build and operate the critical services that support our advertising capabilities.
What you'll be doing
- Design, develop, and deploy scalable, high-performance, and production-grade backend services and distributed systems to support large-scale model inference.
- Contribute significantly to the technical roadmap and design of our inference platform, focusing on low-latency, high-throughput services.
- Ensure the reliability, scalability, and efficiency of our systems in production using monitoring and observability tools like Prometheus and Grafana.
- Partner cross-functionally with data science, product, and engineering teams to align platform capabilities with strategic business goals.
- Manage and optimize our cloud infrastructure (GCP) and orchestrate workloads with Kubernetes.
- Promote and implement best practices for backend service development, testing, deployment, and monitoring (DevOps, SRE).
What we're looking for
- Background in Software Engineering or a related technical field.
- Extensive hands-on experience designing, deploying, and maintaining distributed systems at scale, including managing cloud infrastructure on GCP and orchestrating workloads with Kubernetes.
- Expertise in Golang for building high-performance, low-latency systems and infrastructure.
- Deep experience with monitoring and observability tools (e.g., Prometheus, Grafana).
- Familiarity with microservice architectures, containerization (Docker), and CI/CD best practices.
- Excellent communication and collaboration skills, with an ability to articulate technical concepts to both technical and non-technical audiences.
Additional information
- Relocation support is not available for this position
- Work visa/immigration sponsorship is not available for this position
Benefits At Unity, we want our team members to thrive. We offer a wide range of benefits designed to support well-being and work-life balance.
Please note: Benefits eligibility, specific offerings, and coverage vary based on the country and employment status.
While specific benefits vary, here are some of the ways we strive to take care of our eligible team members globally: Comprehensive health, life, and disability insurance | Commute subsidy | Employee stock ownership | Competitive retirement/pension plans | Generous vacation and personal days | Support for new parents through leave and family-care programs | Office food snacks | Mental Health and Wellbeing programs and support | Employee Resource Groups | Global Employee Assistance Program | Training and development programs | Volunteering and donation matching program
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Gross base salary
$152,900—$229,300 USD