Wurl
Staff Platform Engineer
Remote - United States · Staff+
Sponsorship not specified$146k-$218kDetected 1 day ago
TypeScriptPythonGoDistributed SystemsGitAWSCloud PlatformsKubernetesTerraformCI/CDGitHub ActionsPrometheusGrafanaDevOpsSite Reliability EngineeringPlatform EngineeringKafkaData EngineeringCybersecurityIncident ResponseZero TrustCollaborationMentoring
About the role
- Our technology and data-driven solutions help companies reach new audiences, engage high-value viewers, and ultimately increase their revenue.
- Join us to revolutionize the way the world watches television while enjoying mentorship, collaboration, and innovation.
- Passion and potential go a long way here at Wurl.
Responsibilities
- Drive the adoption and implement composable, idempotent, multi-environment GitOps workflows.
- Optimize scalability and cost-per-performance using metrics-driven automation and autoscaling technologies such as Karpenter.
- Develop and maintain observability across the platform using Prometheus, Grafana, and distributed tracing.
- Lead cross-functional efforts with application teams to define SLOs and capacity models for mission-critical services.
- Lead major production incident response efforts, drive blameless postmortems, and mentor other engineers on production incident response, postmortems, and reliability reviews.
- Create and operate resilient CI/CD pipelines for safe, rapid deployments and rollbacks.
- Develop agentic workflows utilizing the team-wide context layer and operational data to accelerate development without compromising reliability.
- We invest in providing a culture that fosters passion, drives excellence, and encourages collaboration to drive innovation.
Requirements
- Demonstrated expertise in architecting, deploying, and maintaining high-throughput, low-latency distributed systems in cloud production environments, ideally in Platform, SRE, or DevOps roles.
- Deep expertise in systems-level coding skills for automation and systems development (Go, Python, or TypeScript).
- Working knowledge of GitOps and reconciliation loops in Kubernetes controllers.
- Solid experience with CI/CD systems (GitHub Actions, AWS CodePipeline)
- Experience with large-scale streaming or ad-serving workloads, including HTTP-based delivery (oRTB, VAST), event streaming (Kafka), and AWS network architecture (VPC, load balancers, peering)
- Proven ability to conduct deep performance analysis, tuning, and optimization across the entire infrastructure stack to achieve optimal cost-per-performance and latency targets.
Nice to have
- Experience with advanced GitOps patterns using Github Workflows.
- Exposure to extended observability tools such as Loki or Tempo
- Experience designing or operating distributed, high-throughput stateful data pipelines to ensure reliable, scalable, and cost-efficient data flow.
- Proven experience operating Kubernetes at scale (EKS preferred) and applying IaC patterns (CDK, Terraform).
- A Plus if you have:
Skills
- About Wurl, LLC.
Compensation
- $146,000 - $218,000 USD
- $124,000 - $186,000 USD
- 10 paid holidays per year
- 80 hours per year
Benefits
- Competitive Salary & Bonus
- Strong Medical, Dental and Vision Benefits, 100% paid by Wurl
- Flexible Time Off
- Pre-Tax Savings Plans, HSA & FSA
- OneMedical subscription for 24/7 convenient medical care
- Paid Maternity and Parental Leave for all family additions
Equal opportunity
- AppLovin is proud to be an equal opportunity employer that is committed to inclusion and diversity.
- Learn more about EEO rights as an applicant here.
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