Senior Backend Engineer, ML Inference Systems

1 hour, 2 minutes ago
Full-time
Senior
Software Development
Unity

Unity

Unity is the top platform for real-time 3D content creation, empowering creators across industries to bring their ideas to life with interactive 2D and 3D content.

Internet Software & Services
5K-10K
Founded 2004

Description

  • Design, develop, and deploy production-grade backend services and distributed systems for large-scale online model inference.
  • Drive technical direction for the inference platform, with emphasis on low-latency and high-throughput serving infrastructure.
  • Partner with ML engineers to ensure serving infrastructure scales with model complexity and inference volume.
  • Monitor and improve the reliability, scalability, and efficiency of production systems using observability tools such as Prometheus and Grafana.
  • Manage and optimize cloud infrastructure on GCP.
  • Orchestrate workloads with Kubernetes in a high-scale production environment.
  • Promote best practices for backend development, testing, deployment, and monitoring across DevOps and SRE practices.

Requirements

  • Experience designing, deploying, and maintaining distributed systems at scale.
  • Expertise in Golang for high-performance, low-latency backend infrastructure.
  • Hands-on experience with cloud infrastructure on GCP and workload orchestration with Kubernetes.
  • Strong grounding in monitoring and observability tools, including Prometheus and Grafana.
  • Experience in ad tech, recommender systems, real-time personalization, or another performance-critical domain.
  • Familiarity with microservice architectures, containerization with Docker, and CI/CD best practices.
  • Familiarity with machine learning platforms, workflows, and serving infrastructure.
  • Experience with ML inference servers such as NVIDIA Triton Inference Server (preferred).
  • Familiarity with auction mechanics or bidding systems in an ad tech context (preferred).
  • Experience using AI as a strategic advantage in engineering while following best practices for code quality and security (preferred).
  • Strong English communication skills for frequent professional verbal and written exchanges with global colleagues and partners.
  • Relocation support is not available for this position.

Benefits

  • Gross pay salary range of $135,800 to $237,050 USD.
  • Comprehensive health, life, and disability insurance.
  • Commute subsidy.
  • Employee stock ownership.
  • Competitive retirement and pension plans.
  • Generous vacation and personal days.
  • Support for new parents through leave and family-care programs.
  • Mental health and wellbeing programs and support.
  • Employee Resource Groups.
  • Global Employee Assistance Program.
  • Training and development programs.
  • Volunteering and donation matching program.

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