Staff Infrastructure Engineer, Ads

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 youll 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

What were looking for

• 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

You might also have

• 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

Additional information

• Relocation support is not available for this position

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