Unity

Senior Backend Engineer, Ads Privacy

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16 days ago
Mountain View, CA, USA or San Francisco, CA, USASenior
H1B sponsor

Base Salary

$136k - $224k/yr

Responsibilities

  • Build and operate high-QPS, low-latency systems that carry consent and opt-out signals from the SDK through the advertising auction.
  • Own data-subject-request fulfilment by orchestrating deletion across downstream systems, tracking completion, and meeting SLAs.
  • Translate changing privacy regulations into per-jurisdiction configuration and enforcement without country-specific code changes.
  • Build measurement and auditing systems to verify compliance and detect failures.
  • Contribute to content-policy enforcement, deduplication, labeling, and fraud-detection tooling across the marketplace.
  • Partner with legal and privacy counsel, ML engineers, and data engineers to turn requirements, models, and pipelines into production systems.
  • Manage priorities and drive work across team boundaries.

Requirements

  • Experience designing low-latency APIs and distributed backend services operating at high QPS in production.
  • Proficiency writing scalable code in Golang; Java is also welcome.
  • Hands-on experience operating services on cloud infrastructure with Kubernetes and container orchestration.
  • Experience with Kafka or similar streaming platforms and event-driven system design.
  • Comfort working on systems whose correctness is externally audited and governed by requirements outside engineering.
  • Effective written and verbal communication and ability to work in multifunctional teams.
  • Preferred: AdTech experience and familiarity with IAB frameworks such as TCF.
  • Preferred: privacy engineering, trust and safety, or fraud-detection experience.
  • Preferred: knowledge of GDPR, CCPA, and related global privacy regulations.
  • Preferred: experience with SQL, NoSQL, Postgres, MongoDB, and Redis.
  • Preferred: experience working with ML engineers or data teams to productionize models and data pipelines.
  • Preferred: familiarity with Terraform, Prometheus, Grafana, or OpenTelemetry.

Benefits

  • Comprehensive health, life, and disability insurance.
  • Commute subsidy, employee stock ownership, and competitive retirement or pension plans.
  • Generous vacation and personal days.
  • New-parent leave and family-care programs.
  • Office food and snacks, mental health and wellbeing programs, and an Employee Resource Group program.
  • Global Employee Assistance Program, training and development programs, and volunteering and donation matching.
  • International relocation support is not available for this position.

Tech Stack

Categories

Unity

About Unity

5,001-10,000 employees

Unity is a public software company that builds the Unity real-time 3D engine and services for creating, operating, and monetizing games and interactive 3D content across mobile, PC, console, and XR. It sells subscription licenses and usage-based services such as cloud build, ads, and analytics to studios and enterprises in gaming, automotive, film, and AR/VR. Founded in 2004 and headquartered in San Francisco, it trades on the NYSE (U).

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