Senior Manager, Ads Infrastructure

Job description

**San Francisco, CA, USA**
**Senior Manager, Ads Infrastructure**
Location
San Francisco, CA, USA
Department
Engineering
Requisition ID
JOBREQ-2515018
**Role description**

**The opportunity**
The Ads Infrastructure team at Unity builds and operates the core distributed systems that power one of the largest real time advertising platforms in the world.

Our infrastructure underpins every part of Unity Ads, providing the foundation for segmentation, optimization, bidding, and analytics at global scale.

As a Senior Manager in Ads Infrastructure, you will lead a team of highly skilled engineers who design, build, and operate the systems that ensure Unity Ads runs reliably and efficiently.

You will be responsible for setting direction, driving execution, and growing talent, while partnering with product, data, and machine learning teams to deliver the infrastructure that enables innovation across Unity Ads.

**What you'll be doing**

+ Lead and grow a team of infrastructure engineers who build and operate large scale distributed systems
+ Define and drive the roadmap for Ads Infrastructure in alignment with product and business priorities
+ Ensure operational excellence by establishing standards for reliability, observability, on call practices, and incident response
+ Partner with technical leaders to guide architectural decisions and long term platform investments
+ Foster an inclusive and collaborative culture that empowers engineers to grow and enables them to deliver their best work

**What we're looking for**

+ 10 or more years of experience in software engineering with at least 3 years managing teams building distributed systems
+ Proven track record of leading teams operating infrastructure at scale in production
+ Technical depth in cloud native systems, ideally Kubernetes and large scale service infrastructure
+ Strong leadership skills with the ability to set vision, align stakeholders, and deliver through others
+ Excellent communication skills and experience working across cross functional organizations

**You might also have**

+ Experience leading infrastructure teams in online advertising or large scale data driven businesses
+ Background in traffic management, load balancing, or distributed caching and storage systems
+ Passion for mentoring engineering leaders and building high performing global teams

**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 (https://unity.com/careers) .

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 (https://www.unity.com) .

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Gross pay salary

$202,800—$304,200 USD

Required Skill Profession

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