Senior Platform Engineer

October 31

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Wurl

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Media • Advertising

Wurl is an AppLovin-owned company that plays a crucial role in the streaming TV ecosystem. It aids publishers, streamers, and advertisers by offering advanced solutions for real-time contextual targeting for CTV ads, content distribution, and ad monetization. With products like BrandDiscovery and AdPool, Wurl facilitates brand growth, audience acquisition, and revenue maximization. Its technology supports engagement and performance boosting on TV by aligning ads with on-screen content, helping clients capture new audiences and increase engagement. Wurl's services are particularly tailored for brands, agencies, publishers, and streamers looking to maximize their streaming TV capabilities.

51 - 200 employees

Founded 2010

📱 Media

📋 Description

• Design and maintain composable IaC (CDK or Terraform) patterns for Cloud Infrastructure (EKS). • 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. • Collaborate with application teams to define SLIs/SLOs and capacity models for mission-critical services. • Lead or participate in 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.

🎯 Requirements

• Established experience operating high-throughput, low-latency distributed systems in cloud production environments, ideally in Platform, SRE, or DevOps roles. • Strong 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) • Skilled in designing 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). • Ability to measure, analyze, and tune performance to achieve optimal cost and latency targets. • Experience with advanced GitOps patterns using Argo CD (nice-to-have) • Exposure to extended observability tools such as Loki or Tempo (nice-to-have) • Experience designing or operating high-throughput data pipelines to ensure reliable, scalable, and cost-efficient data flow (nice-to-have).

🏖️ Benefits

• Competitive Salary & Equity • Strong Medical, Dental and Vision Benefits, 100% paid by Wurl • Remote first policy • Flexible Time Off • 12 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