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Staff Backend Engineer, Vector AI

Unity

Mountain View, CA · full time · Staff

$244,500 – $317,800

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What this role is

Build and operate the distributed systems that power ad ranking and bidding decisions across billions of daily gaming impressions. This role is for experienced backend engineers who can design low-latency, high-throughput inference infrastructure at massive scale.

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Skills this role names

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What they ask for

Required

  • 5+ years designing and maintaining distributed systems at scale
  • Expertise in Golang for high-performance backend infrastructure
  • Hands-on experience with GCP cloud infrastructure and Kubernetes
  • Strong knowledge of Prometheus and Grafana monitoring and observability
  • Experience in performance-critical domains such as ad tech, recommender systems, or real-time personalization
  • Familiarity with microservice architectures, containerization, and CI/CD practices
  • Knowledge of machine learning platforms and serving infrastructure

Nice to have

  • Experience with ML inference servers like NVIDIA Triton Inference Server
  • Familiarity with auction mechanics and bidding systems in ad tech

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