Senior Software Engineer, Programmatic

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.

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