Staff Infrastructure Engineer, Unity Ads Infrastructure

<p><strong>The opportunity</strong><br>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.</p> <p>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.</p> <p><strong>What you'll be doing</strong></p> <ul> <li>Guide the architecture and low level design of distributed systems to ensure scalability, reliability, and efficiency</li> <li>Own and operate infrastructure services with the engineering teams, including on call responsibilities and deep debugging of complex issues</li> <li>Drive operational excellence through improved observability, resiliency, and automation</li> <li>Mentor engineers and raise the technical bar through design reviews, code reviews, and engineering best practices</li> <li>Advise leadership on platform direction, long term investment, and adoption of emerging infrastructure technologies</li> </ul> <p><strong>What we're looking for</strong></p> <ul> <li>7 or more years of experience building and operating large scale distributed systems in production</li> <li>Programming experience for backend service and infrastructure development</li> <li>Hands on experience with Kubernetes and cloud native systems in GCP, AWS, or Azure</li> <li>Expertise in distributed infrastructure including traffic management, load balancing, networking, and large scale data processing.</li> <li>Deep understanding of networking, observability, and debugging distributed systems end to end</li> </ul> <p><strong>You might also have</strong></p> <ul> <li>Deep expertise in distributed caching or storage systems used to support large scale, low latency workloads</li> <li>Expertise in protocols, routing, and service discovery in large scale environments</li> <li>Domain knowledge of online advertising and adtech systems is a plus</li> </ul> <p><strong>Additional information</strong></p> <ul> <li>Relocation support is not available for this position</li> <li>Work visa/immigration sponsorship is not available for this position</li> </ul> <p><strong>Life at Unity</strong></p> <p>Unity [NYSE: U] is the world’s leading game engine, powering play for more than 3 billion consumers each month. The top mobile games in the world, the most played PC indie titles, the most innovative console games, and virtually all of the top XR and Web Games are developed, deployed, and grown in Unity. Unity also enables teams across industries like automotive, manufacturing, and healthcare to design, simulate, and collaborate in 3D — closing the gap between ideas and reality. For more information, please visit <a href="http://www.unity.com/">www.unity.com</a>.</p> <p><em>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. </em><em>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 </em><a href="https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLSdrbRLG1N-apH1eahQ622Gypo-rmiAB6LLTP1UsSWQNu7omxQ/viewform"><em>this form</em></a><em> to let us know.</em></p> <p><em>This position requires the incumbent to have a sufficient knowledge of English to have professional verbal and written exchanges in this language sin ... (truncated, view full listing at source)