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Senior Backend Engineer, Vector AI

Unity · Mountain View, CA, USA · On-site

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About Unity

Develop, deploy, and grow with Unity, the world’s leading 3D game engine. Build for all major platforms from mobile, to PC and console as well as XR, acquire players, monetize your game, and power industrial applications. Backed by Sequoia.

About the role

We're hiring a Senior Backend Engineer to build and operate the infrastructure those models depend on. You'll design and operate the distributed systems that power billions of daily decisions, with a focus on the performance, reliability, and scalability of inference systems. Join us and help influence how billions of gaming experiences are discovered, monetized, and how creators are rewarded.

What they're looking for

  • Experience designing, deploying, and maintaining distributed systems at scale
  • Expertise in Golang for building high-performance, low-latency backend infrastructure
  • Hands-on experience with cloud infrastructure on GCP and workload orchestration with Kubernetes
  • Strong grounding in monitoring and observability tooling, including Prometheus and Grafana
  • Experience in ad tech, recommender systems, real-time personalization, or other performance-critical domains
  • Familiarity with microservice architectures, containerization (Docker), and CI/CD best practices
More about this role

The opportunity

Every day, we connect billions of players with the games and experiences they love.

Our Vector Gamer AI team sits at the heart of that mission, governing ad ranking and bidding decisions across billions of daily impressions, where large-scale machine learning and real-world impact converge at scale.

We're hiring a Senior Backend Engineer to build and operate the infrastructure those models depend on. You'll design and operate the distributed systems that power billions of daily decisions, with a focus on the performance, reliability, and scalability of inference systems.

Join us and help influence how billions of gaming experiences are discovered, monetized, and how creators are rewarded.

Design, develop, and deploy production-grade backend services and distributed systems powering large-scale online model inference at billions of daily requests

Drive technical direction of our inference platform, with a focus on low-latency, high-throughput serving infrastructure

Partner with ML engineers to ensure online serving infrastructure scales with growing model complexity and inference volumes, without compromising latency or throughput

Ensure the reliability,...

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