Staff Software Engineer, SDK Development

The opportunity
We invite you to take on a meaningful role as Staff SDK Engineer, where you'll play a key part in advancing 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.

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 [NYSE: U] is the leading platform to create and grow games and interactive experiences. Creators, ranging from game developers to artists, architects, automotive designers, infrastructure experts, filmmakers, and more, use Unity to bring their imaginations to life across multiple platforms, from mobile, PC, and console, to spatial computing.

As of the third quarter of 2024, more than 70% of the top 1,000 mobile games were made with Unity, and in 2024, Made with Unity applications had an average of 3.7 billion downloads per month. For more information, please visit Unity.

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Gross pay salary

$200,000—$300,000 USD