Staff Backend Engineer, ML Inference Systems

1 hour, 41 minutes ago
Full-time
Lead
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 the technical direction of the inference platform with a focus on low-latency, high-throughput serving infrastructure.
  • Partner with ML engineers to ensure serving infrastructure scales with model complexity and inference volume.
  • Ensure the reliability, scalability, and efficiency of production systems using monitoring and observability tools.
  • Manage and optimize cloud infrastructure on GCP and orchestrate workloads with Kubernetes in a high-scale production environment.
  • Promote and implement best practices for backend development, testing, deployment, and monitoring.
  • Support systems that influence ad ranking, bidding decisions, and monetization outcomes at scale.

Requirements

  • 5+ years of experience designing, deploying, and maintaining distributed systems at scale.
  • Expertise in Golang for high-performance, low-latency backend infrastructure.
  • Hands-on experience with GCP cloud infrastructure and Kubernetes workload orchestration.
  • Strong grounding in monitoring and observability tools, including Prometheus and Grafana.
  • Experience in ad tech, recommender systems, real-time personalization, or other performance-critical domains.
  • Familiarity with microservice architectures, Docker containerization, 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 is preferred.
  • Familiarity with auction mechanics or bidding systems in an ad tech context is preferred.
  • Strong English communication skills for frequent global collaboration.
  • Relocation support is not available for this position.

Benefits

  • Gross pay salary of $192,600 to $305,600 USD.
  • Comprehensive health, life, and disability insurance.
  • 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.
  • Training and development programs.

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