Staff Platform Engineer

Wurl
$124,000 - $218,000Remote

About The Position

Wurl is seeking a Staff Platform Engineer to build and operate the systems that power our ad-serving and streaming platforms. You’ll be the key technical leader driving the vision and evolution of the infrastructure foundation that enables our teams to deploy, scale, and observe high-throughput, low-latency workloads serving hundreds of thousands of requests per second. You’ll own the platform layer, ensuring it’s reliable, cost-efficient, and measurable, while enabling multiple engineering teams to deliver world-class video and advertising experiences.

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. Prior ownership of a stateful deployment
  • Deep expertise in systems-level coding skills for automation and systems development (Go, Python, or TypeScript).
  • Proven experience operating Kubernetes at scale (EKS preferred) and applying IaC patterns (CDK, Terraform).
  • Working knowledge of GitOps and reconciliation loops in Kubernetes controllers.
  • Solid experience with CI/CD systems (GitHub Actions, AWS CodePipeline)
  • Expert in defining, designing, and optimizing global monitoring and alerting pipelines (PromQL, metrics correlation, alert noise reduction).
  • 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)
  • Understanding of cloud security best practices (IAM, encryption, network segmentation, zero trust).
  • 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 Haves

  • 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.

Responsibilities

  • Define, architect, and set standards for composable IaC (CDK or Terraform) patterns for Cloud Infrastructure (EKS).
  • 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.
  • Champion automation, low-toil operations, and a culture of continuous improvement.
  • Develop agentic workflows utilizing the team-wide context layer and operational data to accelerate development without compromising reliability.
  • Act as a technical leader and mentor to elevate the team, with a strong ability to listen, evaluate, and give constructive feedback on ideas.

Benefits

  • Competitive Salary & Equity
  • Strong Medical, Dental and Vision Benefits, 100% paid by Wurl
  • Remote first policy
  • Flexible Time Off
  • 10 US Holidays
  • 401(k) Matching
  • Pre-Tax Savings Plans, HSA & FSA
  • Ginger, Aaptiv and Headspace subscriptions for mental and physical wellness
  • OneMedical subscription for 24/7 convenient medical care
  • Paid Maternity and Parental Leave for all family additions
  • Discounted PetPlan and easy at home access to Covid testing with empowerDX
  • $1k Work From Home Stipend to set up your Office
  • Health Insurance: Medical, Dental, Vision, Life, Disability
  • Retirement Benefits: 401(k) Retirement Plan
  • Paid Time Off: Unlimited Discretionary Time Off
  • Paid Holidays: 10 paid holidays per year
  • Paid Sick Leave: 80 hours per year
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