Staff Backend Engineer, Vector AI

Unity Software
Mountain View
Workplace: OnsiteFull timeUSD 244,500 - 317,800 annuallyFunction: Software EngineeringSkills: ["Collaboration","Technical leadership","Problem-solving","Reliability focus"]

Build and operate backend infrastructure for large-scale ML inference powering billions of daily model-serving decisions. Drive the technical direction of low-latency, high-throughput serving systems, partnering with ML engineers to scale with growing model complexity. Improve production reliability using monitoring and observability (Prometheus, Grafana), and manage cloud infrastructure on GCP with Kubernetes. Promote strong backend engineering, testing, deployment, and DevOps/SRE best practices.

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Unity Software
Unity Software
2 months ago

Staff Backend Engineer, Vector AI

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Job Summary

Build and operate backend infrastructure for large-scale ML inference powering billions of daily model-serving decisions. Drive the technical direction of low-latency, high-throughput serving systems, partnering with ML engineers to scale with growing model complexity. Improve production reliability using monitoring and observability (Prometheus, Grafana), and manage cloud infrastructure on GCP with Kubernetes. Promote strong backend engineering, testing, deployment, and DevOps/SRE best practices.
Location: Mountain View
Workplace: Onsite
Employment Type: Full time
Job Function: Software Engineering
Seniority: Mid level

Key Responsibilities

  • •Design, develop, and deploy production-grade backend services and distributed systems for large-scale online model inference
  • •Drive technical direction of the inference platform with a focus on low-latency, high-throughput serving infrastructure
  • •Partner with ML engineers to scale online serving infrastructure without compromising latency or throughput
  • •Ensure reliability, scalability, and efficiency in production using monitoring and observability tools like Prometheus and Grafana
  • •Manage and optimize GCP cloud infrastructure and orchestrate workloads with Kubernetes while promoting DevOps/SRE best practices

Pay and Benefits

Salary: USD 244,500 - 317,800 annually
Equity and Bonus:Equity
Perks:Health InsuranceLife InsuranceDisability InsuranceRetirementPaid LeaveCommuter BenefitsEquity

Key Requirements

  • •5+ years designing, deploying, and maintaining distributed systems at scale
  • •Expertise in Golang for high-performance, low-latency backend infrastructure
  • •Hands-on experience with GCP and workload orchestration using Kubernetes
  • •Strong grounding in monitoring and observability, including Prometheus and Grafana
  • •Experience in ad tech, recommender systems, real-time personalization, or other performance-critical domains
Experience:Ad techRecommender systemsReal-time personalizationMachine learningDistributed systemsMicroservicesInference systems
Skills:CollaborationTechnical leadershipProblem-solvingReliability focus
Languages:English
Tech Stack:GolangGCPKubernetesPrometheusGrafanaDockerCI/CDMachine learningMicroservice architecturesCloud infrastructure

Company Brief

Unity Software
Develops the Unity real-time 3D development platform used to create, operate, and monetize interactive experiences and games across mobile, console, PC, and AR/VR platforms. Serves developers, studios, and enterprises worldwide.
Industry: Developer Tools
Company Size: Enterprise (1,001+ employees)
Revenue: USD 1B+
Growth: Public Company
Valuation: Public Company (Market Cap in USD)
Funding: IPO / Publicly Listed
Headquarters: San Francisco, United States
Founded: 2004
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