What are the responsibilities and job description for the Staff Infrastructure Engineer, Ads - North America position at Unity?
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.
We focus on resilient, scalable, and cost efficient systems. The platform is built on technologies such as Kubernetes, Kafka, Flink, Valkey, and supports the developers, data scientists, and product teams that drive Unity Ads forward.
What You'll Be Doing
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.
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.
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$157,800—$236,800 USD
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.
We focus on resilient, scalable, and cost efficient systems. The platform is built on technologies such as Kubernetes, Kafka, Flink, Valkey, and supports the developers, data scientists, and product teams that drive Unity Ads forward.
What You'll Be Doing
- Guide the architecture and low level design of distributed systems to ensure scalability, reliability, and efficiency
- Own and operate infrastructure services with the engineering teams, including on call responsibilities and deep debugging of complex issues
- Drive operational excellence through improved observability, resiliency, and automation
- Mentor engineers and raise the technical bar through design reviews, code reviews, and engineering best practices
- Advise leadership on platform direction, long term investment, and adoption of emerging infrastructure technologies
- 7 or more years of experience building and operating large scale distributed systems in production
- Programming experience for backend service and infrastructure development
- Hands on experience with Kubernetes and cloud native systems in GCP, AWS, or Azure
- Expertise in distributed infrastructure including traffic management, load balancing, networking, and large scale data processing.
- Deep understanding of networking, observability, and debugging distributed systems end to end
- Deep expertise in distributed caching or storage systems used to support large scale, low latency workloads
- Expertise in protocols, routing, and service discovery in large scale environments
- Domain knowledge of online advertising and adtech systems is a plus
- Relocation support is not available for this position
- Work visa/immigration sponsorship is not available for this position
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.
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
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$157,800—$236,800 USD
Salary : $157,800 - $236,800