Staff SDK Engineer, Unity Ads (android)

Staff SDK Engineer, Unity Ads (Android)

The opportunity: We invite you to take on a meaningful role as a Staff SDK Engineer, where you'll lead the design and development of scalable, privacy-conscious signal collection systems within our Ads organization. You will play a vital part in gathering, validating, and utilizing behavioral signals across client applications to empower groundbreaking machine learning use cases, such as ad targeting, ranking, and optimization for our Offerwall solution. This is your 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:

• Designing, implementing, and maintaining SDKs that collect high-quality behavioral and contextual signals from client applications such as mobile, desktop, and Unity.
• Establishing and promoting instrumentation standards to ensure high-quality data collection for machine learning systems.
• Collaborating with multi-functional teams, including ML scientists, data engineers, and product managers, to adapt SDKs to evolving ML needs.
• Developing tools and frameworks to validate, monitor, and test collected data in production environments.
• Partnering with privacy and legal teams to ensure compliance with global regulations, such as GDPR and CCPA, while prioritizing user consent.

What we're looking for:

• Strong proficiency in client application platforms like iOS, Android, Unity, or C++.
• Proven track record in event-based data collection, telemetry, and analytics frameworks.
• Experience in data preprocessing and quality assurance for machine learning pipelines.
• Familiarity with experimentation frameworks, including A/B testing and signal gating.
• Ability to work effectively in multi-functional teams and lead initiatives across SDK, infrastructure, and ML platform teams.

You might also have:

• Knowledge of real-time and batch data pipelines like Kafka, Flink, or Spark, aligning with our value of "Best Ideas Win."
• Expertise in privacy techniques, consent management, or differential privacy, reflecting our commitment to "Users First."
• Experience in ad tech or monetization systems, demonstrating the value of "Go Bold" in driving impactful solutions.

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.

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 $178,300—$267,500 USD