Senior SDK Engineer, Unity Ads (ios)

Senior SDK Engineer, Unity Ads (iOS)

Location: San Francisco, CA, USA

The opportunity: We are hiring a Senior SDK Engineer to act as a senior individual contributor on the iOS SDK, owning features or subsystems end-to-end from design through implementation and maintenance. This is a chance to work at the exciting intersection of SDK development, machine learning, and data infrastructure. Join us to create innovative solutions that propel advertising technology forward, impacting billions of global ad experiences while ensuring privacy and compliance.

What you'll be doing:

• Act as a senior individual contributor on the iOS SDK, owning features or subsystems end-to-end from design through implementation and maintenance.
• Contribute to the development and evolution of the iOS SDK architecture within established platform direction and guardrails.
• Implement reliable, performant iOS SDK components with strong attention to threading, lifecycle, and main-thread safety.
• Identify and fix production crashes, performance issues, and regressions, and contribute to improving overall SDK stability.
• Proactively improve existing code, abstractions, and development practices to enhance maintainability and reliability.
• Exercise sound technical judgment in balancing correctness, performance, and delivery timelines.
• Collaborate closely with Android engineers, backend teams, product managers, and QA to ensure consistent SDK behavior and safe integrations.
• Participate in design and code reviews, providing thoughtful feedback and raising engineering quality across the team.

What we're looking for:

• 6+ years of professional iOS development experience.
• Strong proficiency in Swift.
• Experience working on Ads SDKs, monetization platforms, or other performance-sensitive mobile systems.
• Familiarity with cross-platform SDK alignment and shared contracts between iOS and Android.
• Experience with SDK observability, diagnostics, and release processes.
• Knowledge of mobile security and privacy best practices.
• Experience operating in large, mature codebases with a focus on stability and backwards compatibility.

Additional information:

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

Life at Unity: We offer a wide range of benefits designed to support employees' well-being and work-life balance. You can read more about them on our career page.

Unity is a proud equal opportunity employer. We are committed to fostering an inclusive, innovative environment and celebrate our employees across age, race, color, ancestry, national origin, religion, disability, sex, gender identity or expression, sexual orientation, or any other protected status in accordance with applicable law. Our differences are strengths that enable us to support the growing and evolving needs of our customers, partners, and collaborators.

Pursuant to the San Francisco Fair Chance Ordinance, we will consider for employment qualified applicants with arrest and conviction records.

This position requires the incumbent to have a sufficient knowledge of English to have professional verbal and written exchanges in this language since the performance of the duties related to this position requires frequent and regular communication with colleagues and partners located worldwide and whose common language is English.

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#SEN Note: Certain locations require a good faith disclosure of the base salary range for the role. The actual salary for the successful candidate may differ based on location, experience, and other job-related factors. Gross pay salary $172,400—$258,600 USD