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Senior Manager, Ads Infrastructure

Unity
San Francisco, CA Full Time
POSTED ON 12/24/2025
AVAILABLE BEFORE 2/14/2026
The opportunity

The Ads Infrastructure team at Unity builds and operates the core distributed systems that power one of the largest real time advertising platforms in the world. Our infrastructure underpins every part of Unity Ads, providing the foundation for segmentation, optimization, bidding, and analytics at global scale.

As a Senior Manager in Ads Infrastructure, you will lead a team of highly skilled engineers who design, build, and operate the systems that ensure Unity Ads runs reliably and efficiently. You will be responsible for setting direction, driving execution, and growing talent, while partnering with product, data, and machine learning teams to deliver the infrastructure that enables innovation across Unity Ads.

What You'll Be Doing

  • Lead and mentor infrastructure engineers building and operating large-scale distributed systems
  • Contribute directly to code, design, and incident resolution while guiding technical direction
  • Drive the Ads Infrastructure roadmap focused on scalability, reliability, and efficiency
  • Define and automate standards for observability, on-call, and operational excellence
  • Foster a culture of technical ownership, collaboration, and continuous improveme


What We're Looking For

  • 10 or more years of experience in software engineering with at least 3 years managing teams building distributed systems
  • Proven track record of leading teams operating infrastructure at scale in production
  • Technical depth in cloud native systems, ideally Kubernetes and large scale service infrastructure
  • Strong leadership skills with the ability to set vision, align stakeholders, and deliver through others
  • Excellent communication skills and experience working across cross functional organizations


You might also have

  • Experience leading infrastructure teams in online advertising or large scale data driven businesses
  • Background in traffic management, load balancing, or distributed caching and storage systems
  • Passion for mentoring engineering leaders and building high performing global teams


Additional Information

  • Relocation support is not available for this position
  • Work visa/immigration sponsorship is not available for this position


Life at Unity

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.

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 you have a disability that means 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.

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Gross pay salary

$202,800—$304,200 USD

Salary : $202,800 - $304,200

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