What you'll be doing:- Architect & Design: Lead the technical design and architecture for Offer Delivery services, features, and critical strategic initiatives, collaborating closely with senior engineers and managers.
- Develop & Innovate: Build, test, and operate the Golang services that power real-time bidding into video auctions (OpenRTB) and direct offer placement outside the auction flow.
- Raise the Bar: Mentor engineers, set engineering standards, and foster a culture of technical excellence on the team.
- Drive Cross-team Delivery: Ensure seamless communication and collaboration with product, Ad Viewer, teams in a distributed environment.
- Operate & Maintain: Ensure the high availability and reliability of our production services, including participation in on-call rotations and proactive system monitoring.
What we're looking for:- Technical Leadership: track record of owning a significant backend system, setting direction, making the architectural calls, and getting it delivered through others as well as yourself.
- High-scale distributed systems: Demonstrated ability to design and ship large-scale, highly available, latency-sensitive distributed services with complex business logic.
- Core Technologies: Strong proficiency in backend development using Go (or clear ability to become effective in it quickly). Working knowledge of gRPC with a willingness to adapt to the best tool for the job.
- Observability & Data Streaming: Practical experience with observability platforms (logging, metrics, monitoring/tracing) and message bus technologies for managing complex data streams.
- System Modernization: Proven track record of refactoring and redesigning existing systems to meet evolving product requirements and improve performance.
- Cross-team influence & mentorship: Experience driving technical work across team boundaries and developing the engineers around you.
Strongly preferred:- Experience building or operating a DSP, ad exchange, or real-time bidding system, and familiarity with OpenRTB.
- Background in ad serving, auction mechanics, or programmatic advertising more generally.
Additional information:- Relocation support is not available for this position.
- Work visa/immigration sponsorship is not available for this position
- $200,400-$260,500
This range reflects the anticipated base salary for this position. Beyond base salary, this role may be eligible for equity awards and participation in our company incentive plans (such as annual discretionary bonuses or sales commissions). The final offer amount will depend on several factors, including geographic location and the candidate's relevant experience, professional background, and skill set.
BenefitsAt Unity, we want our team members to thrive. We offer a wide range of benefits designed to support well-being and work-life balance.
Please note: Benefits eligibility, specific offerings, and coverage vary based on the country and employment status.
While specific benefits vary, here are some of the ways we strive to take care of our eligible team members globally: Comprehensive health, life, and disability insurance | Commute subsidy | Employee stock ownership | Competitive retirement/pension plans | Generous vacation and personal days | Support for new parents through leave and family-care programs | Office food snacks | Mental Health and Wellbeing programs and support | Employee Resource Groups | Global Employee Assistance Program | Training and development programs | Volunteering and donation matching program
