Unity
Senior Backend Engineer, Ads Privacy
$136K–$224K
Mountain View, CA, USA +1 · Senior · Full-time · Posted Sep 23, 2026
- Location
- Mountain View, CA, USA
San Francisco, CA, USA - Visa sponsorship
- International relocation support is not available for this position.
About the job
Build and operate high-throughput backend services that enforce advertising privacy requirements and support trust, safety, and fraud prevention across Unity’s ad network.
What you'll do
- Develop request-path systems for consent and opt-out signals, and manage their latency, correctness, and reliability.
- Orchestrate and track data subject request fulfilment, translate privacy regulations into configurable enforcement, and build auditing and measurement.
- Contribute to content moderation and fraud-prevention systems, partnering with legal, privacy, ML, and data teams.
What they ask for
- Experience designing low-latency APIs and distributed backend services running at high QPS in production.
- Proficiency implementing scalable code in Golang; Java is also welcome.
- Hands-on experience operating cloud services with Kubernetes and container orchestration.
- Experience with streaming platforms such as Kafka and event-driven system design.
Nice to have
- AdTech experience and familiarity with IAB frameworks such as TCF; background in privacy engineering, trust and safety, or fraud detection.
- Experience with SQL, NoSQL, or key-value stores; ML/data production collaboration; or infrastructure-as-code and observability tooling.
Pay
Zone A: $172,400 - $224,100 USD (base salary); Zone B: $153,400 - $199,400 USD (base salary); Zone C: $135,800 - $176,400 USD (base salary)
Tools
Golang, Java, Kubernetes, Kafka, SQL, Postgres, MongoDB, Redis
AI focus
Work alongside ML engineers and data teams to put models and data pipelines into production; no specific AI development is stated.
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