Senior SDK Engineer, Unity Ads (full - stack)

Senior SDK Engineer, Unity Ads (Full-Stack)

Location: New York, NY, USA

The opportunity: We are hiring a Senior SDK Engineer to join as a senior individual contributor on the Ad Unit team. You will own end-to-end ad features that span ad unit logic, mobile SDK integration, and event gateway services. 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 Ad Unit team, owning end-to-end ad features that span ad unit logic, mobile SDK integration, and event gateway services.
• Work closely with the SDK team to ensure reliable, performant event generation and delivery from client-side SDKs to backend systems.
• Design and implement end-to-end ad features, coordinating changes across ad unit rendering, native SDKs, and backend APIs.
• Partner with backend teams to design and evolve gateway APIs.
• Ensure features are implemented with strong attention to latency, error handling, and reliability, especially for client-facing flows.
• Proactively improve existing systems, abstractions, and development practices to reduce complexity and enable faster iteration.
• Exercise sound technical judgment when balancing UX requirements, backend complexity, performance, and delivery timelines.
• Collaborate closely with product managers, frontend engineers, SDK engineers, backend teams, and QA to drive features from concept through release.
• Participate actively in design and code reviews, contributing to overall engineering quality and cross-team alignment.

What we're looking for:

• Experience working on Ads platforms, monetization systems, or real-time client-facing services.
• Strong proficiency in Go.
• Familiarity with high-throughput event ingestion services, queues, or streaming systems.
• Prior experience integrating mobile SDKs with backend services, especially in performance-sensitive environments.
• Familiarity with gateway or API-layer services that serve multiple client types.
• Experience operating in large, mature codebases with a focus on stability and maintainability.

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.

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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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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 $153,400—$230,200 USD