Wurl
Streaming
StaffPlatformEngineer
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“Staff Platform Engineer at Wurl. Skills: Platform Engineering, Kubernetes, IaC, Observability. Build and operate ad-serving and streaming platforms. Drive vision and evolution of infrastructure foundation”
What You'll Achieve.
Accelerate the shift to streaming; Connect viewers to the right content and ads; Reach new audiences; Engage high-value viewers; Increase revenue; Deploy, scale, and observe high-throughput, low-latency workloads; Serve hundreds of thousands of requests per second; Deliver world-class video and advertising experiences; Achieve optimal cost-per-performance and latency targets
Industry & Context.
Performance analysis; Performance tuning; Performance optimization; Alert noise reduction
What They're Looking For.
Must Have
Expertise in architecting, deploying, and maintaining high-throughput, low-latency distributed systems in cloud production environments, 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), 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, HTTP-based delivery (oRTB, VAST), Event streaming (Kafka), 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
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
What You'll Do.
Build and operate ad-serving and streaming platforms
Drive vision and evolution of infrastructure foundation
Enable teams to deploy
and observe workloads
Own the platform layer
Ensure platform reliability
and set standards for IaC patterns
Drive adoption and implement GitOps workflows
Optimize scalability and cost-per-performance
Develop and maintain observability across the platform
Lead cross-functional efforts to define SLOs and capacity models
Lead major production incident response efforts
Drive blameless postmortems
Create and operate resilient CI/CD pipelines
Champion automation and low-toil operations
Develop agentic workflows
How You'll Work.
Team & Collaboration
Enable multiple engineering teams to deliver experiences; Lead cross-functional efforts with application teams; Mentor other engineers on production incident response; Elevate the team; Listen, evaluate, and give constructive feedback on ideas
Full Job Description
About Wurl, LLC. At Wurl, our mission is to create innovative technologies and services that help accelerate the shift to streaming. At our core, we are innovators focused on driving the streaming industry forward with technologies that help connect viewers to the right content and ads. Our technology and data-driven solutions help companies reach new audiences, engage high-value viewers, and ultimately increase their revenue. In 2022, Wurl was acquired by AppLovin (Nasdaq: APP), a leading marketing platform, giving our employees the best of both worlds: the dynamic environment of a 150+ person startup as well as the stability of a high-growth public tech company. We invest in providing a culture that fosters passion, drives excellence, and encourages collaboration to drive innovation. Wurl is a fully-remote company that has been globally recognized for our people and technology, having been named a Great Place to Work by Fortune in 2022, 2023, and 2024; an Ad Tech Company of the Year finalist by the UK Business Tech Awards in 2023; a BIG Innovation Awards winner in 2024 and 2025; and the “Innovation in Advertising” winner by the StreamTV Awards in 2024. Staff Platform Engineer: 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. Responsibilities Platform Infrastructure & Automation Define, architect, and set standards for composable IaC (CDK or Terraform) patterns for Cloud Infrastructure (EKS). Drive the adoption and implement composable, idempotent, multi-environme
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