Senior Machine Learning Engineer
Job Fit Check
Base Career helps you apply smarter for this job.
Key skills for this role
About the Role
Unity Technologies is seeking a Senior Backend Engineer to design and maintain high-scale inference systems for Unity Ads. You will work on distributed systems, cloud infrastructure (GCP), and Kubernetes, collaborating with ML research and product teams.
Key Skills for This Role
Responsibilities
- Design, develop, and deploy scalable backend services and distributed systems for large scale model inference
- Contribute to technical roadmap and design of inference platform focusing on low latency, high throughput services
- Ensure reliability, scalability, and efficiency of systems in production using monitoring tools
- Partner cross functionally with data science, product, and engineering teams
- Manage and optimize cloud infrastructure (GCP) and orchestrate workloads with Kubernetes
- Promote best practices for backend service development, testing, deployment, and monitoring
Requirements
- Background in Software Engineering or related technical field
- Extensive experience designing, deploying, and maintaining distributed systems at scale
- Expertise in Golang for high performance systems
- Experience with monitoring and observability tools (e.g., Prometheus, Grafana)
- Familiarity with microservice architectures, containerization (Docker), and CI/CD
- Excellent communication and collaboration skills
Full Job Posting
The opportunity
- Unity is committed to building a culture that fosters collaboration and innovation.
- The Vector AI team shapes the future of Unity's monetization products.
- Seeking a Senior Backend Engineer (Distributed Systems) to scale high scale inference systems for Unity Ads.
What you'll be doing
- Design, develop, and deploy scalable, high performance backend services and distributed systems for large scale model inference.
- Contribute to technical roadmap and design of inference platform focusing on low latency, high throughput services.
- Ensure reliability, scalability, and efficiency of systems in production using monitoring and observability tools like Prometheus and Grafana.
- Partner cross functionally with data science, product, and engineering teams.
- Manage and optimize cloud infrastructure (GCP) and orchestrate workloads with Kubernetes.
- Promote and implement best practices for backend service development, testing, deployment, and monitoring (DevOps, SRE).
What we're looking for
- Background in Software Engineering or a related technical field.
- Extensive hands on experience designing, deploying, and maintaining distributed systems at scale, including GCP and Kubernetes.
- Expertise in Golang for building high performance, low latency systems.
- Deep experience with monitoring and observability tools (e.g., Prometheus, Grafana).
- Familiarity with microservice architectures, containerization (Docker), and CI/CD best practices.
- Excellent communication and collaboration skills.
Additional information
- Relocation support is not available for this position.
- Work visa/immigration sponsorship is not available for this position.
Salary range
- This range reflects the anticipated base salary for this position.
- Beyond base salary, this role may be eligible for equity awards and participation in company incentive plans.
- Final offer amount depends on geographic location, relevant experience, background, and skill set.
Benefits
- Comprehensive health, life, and disability insurance.
- Commute subsidy.
- Employee stock ownership.
- Competitive retirement/pension plans.
- Generous vacation and personal days.
- Support for new parents through leave and family care programs.
- Office food snacks.
- Mental Health and Wellbeing programs and support.
- Employee Resource Groups.
- Global Employee Assistance Program.
- Training and development programs.
- Volunteering and donation matching program.
Life at Unity
- Unity is the world's leading game engine, powering play for more than 3 billion consumers each month.
- Unity enables teams across industries like automotive, manufacturing, and healthcare to design, simulate, and collaborate in 3D.
Apply for this job in 1 click
Skip the repetitive application forms
Install the Base Career Chrome Extension and autofill job applications across major job boards with your profile.
Trusted by over 500,000 job seekers on Base Career
More from this employer
More jobs at Unity Technologies
Gestionnaire de la réussite client numérique, Industry / Digital Customer Success Manager, Industry
Montréal, CAN
Unity Technologies seeks a data-driven Digital Customer Success Manager to build and manage scaled, tech-touch customer journeys for the Industry suite. You will design automated campaigns, self-service content, and AI-p
Senior Tech Artist
Montréal, CAN
Unity Technologies is looking for a Senior Technical Artist to create high-fidelity assets, demos, and sample projects in Unity for industry verticals like robotics and manufacturing. You will work with AI tooling, C#, a
Développeuse ou développeur en développement et exploitation (DevOps) sénior, Asset Manager / Senior DevOps Developer, Asset Manager
Montréal, CAN
Unity Technologies is seeking a Senior DevOps Developer for the Asset Manager team in Montreal. The role involves designing and maintaining deployment pipelines for Unity's public cloud and creating tooling for private e
Développeuse ou développeur backend sénior, Outils IA internes / Senior Backend Developer, Internal AI Tooling
Montréal, CAN
Unity Technologies is hiring a Senior Backend Developer for the Engine AI team to design and maintain backend infrastructure for internal AI tools. You will build scalable services for model inference, agent orchestratio
Développeuse ou développeur d’applications frontales (frontend) sénior, Asset Manager / Senior Frontend Developer, Asset Manager
Montréal, CAN
Unity Technologies is seeking a Senior Frontend Developer to shape the Asset Manager experience, building responsive interfaces in React and TypeScript and integrating 3D visualization via WebAssembly. The role involves
Principal Product Manager
, UAE
Unity Technologies is seeking a Principal Product Manager to join the Unity Ads Product team. The role involves owning the strategic vision for ad quality, privacy, trust & safety, and programmatic capabilities. Candidat
Gestionnaire de la réussite client numérique, Industry / Digital Customer Success Manager, Industry
Montréal, CAN
Senior Tech Artist
Montréal, CAN
Développeuse ou développeur en développement et exploitation (DevOps) sénior, Asset Manager / Senior DevOps Developer, Asset Manager
Montréal, CAN
Développeuse ou développeur backend sénior, Outils IA internes / Senior Backend Developer, Internal AI Tooling
Montréal, CAN
Développeuse ou développeur d’applications frontales (frontend) sénior, Asset Manager / Senior Frontend Developer, Asset Manager
Montréal, CAN
Principal Product Manager
, UAE