Back-End Developer, Liveops

Role description

The opportunity

Unity powers over half of all the world’s games and over two-thirds of the world’s VR and AR products. We put the most powerful creative tools in the hands of millions of developers and artists through our foundational principle of Democratization of Development. We are hard at work integrating progressive monetization systems deep into the core of Unity’s engine. Combining data from over a billion players with sophisticated deep learning technology and in-house proprietary analytics. The goal: to make our customers more successful and their consumers happier.

Unity is looking for a Backend Software Developer, Monetization Liveops Data & Reporting, who will join a team focusing on building the next generation of Unity’s monetization suite. As the leading development platform for online and mobile games, Unity is helping take developers' creations further and faster than ever before.

Unity Monetization enables developers to build a business through advertising, in-app purchases, and analytics. You’ll be joining a team of very hardworking engineers who are building powerful tools that empower game developers to launch, balance, and monetize their games. We seek to help condense the wealth of data Unity games build into meaningful data visualizations and insights on our dashboard, helping game creators easily manage their monetization strategies and focus more of their time on what they do best, building outstanding experiences for their users!

What you’ll be doing

• Work in a sophisticated microservice architecture to design, develop, and maintain features
• Design, implement, test, and maintain Unity’s services that are capable of handling real-time and batch processing of tens of thousands of events per seconds and TBs of daily events.
• Ensure scalability through effective code, data storage, and data pipeline design
• Write high-quality code that supports existing and future functionality of the product
• Interact with large amounts of data and debug complicated customer issues

What we’re looking for

• Proven hands on experience in software development using at least one compiled and statically typed language (Java, Golang, C++ or similar)
• Working experience with databases like Mongo, MySQL, Snowflake, or similar
• Ability to design and reason about services in a distributed system, including communication patterns, data protocols and reliability
• Understanding of how distributed messaging systems work (kafka, pubsub etc)
• Ability to solve problems using a qualitative approach with mentality towards engineering perfection

You might also have

• Experience in AdTech or Gaming is a plus, but not required
• Experience with large scale data (SQL, Beam, Airflow, BigQuery, Snowflake)
• Education on machine learning, math, physics, computer science, or equivalent

Life at Unity

Unity (NYSE: U) is the world’s leading platform for creating and operating real-time 3D (RT3D) content. Creators, ranging from game developers to artists, architects, automotive designers, filmmakers, and others, use Unity to make their imaginations come to life. Unity is the foundation upon which the world’s most powerful digital content is created. Specifically, Unity’s platform provides a comprehensive set of software solutions to create, run and monetize interactive, real-time 2D and 3D content for mobile phones, tablets, PCs, consoles, and augmented and virtual reality devices.

In the fourth quarter of 2021, Unity had, on average, 3.9 billion monthly active end users who consumed content created or operated with its solutions. The applications developed by these creators were downloaded, on average, five billion times per month in 2021.

Unity is an equal opportunity employer committed to fostering an inclusive, innovative environment with the best employees. Therefore, we provide employment opportunities without regard to 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. If there are preparations or accommodations we can make to help ensure you have a comfortable and positive interview experience, please let us know.

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