Staff Platform Engineer

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

• Ad Tech Company of the Year finalist by the UK Business Tech Awards in 2023

• BIG Innovation Awards winner in 2024 and 2025

• “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 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

Observability & Reliability

• 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 engineers on reliability practices

Delivery & Culture

• Create and operate resilient CI/CD pipelines for safe, rapid deployments and rollbacks

• Champion automation, low-toil operations, and continuous improvement

• Develop agentic workflows utilizing team-wide context and operational data to accelerate development without compromising reliability

• Act as a technical leader and mentor, listening, evaluating, and giving constructive feedback

Requirements

Core Experience

• Expertise in architecting, deploying, and maintaining high-throughput, low-latency distributed systems in cloud production environments (Platform, SRE, or DevOps roles)

• Deep 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)

Operational Excellence

• 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 (oRTB, VAST, Kafka, AWS network architecture)

• Understanding of cloud security best practices (IAM, encryption, segmentation, zero trust)

• Proven ability to conduct deep performance analysis, tuning, and optimization across infrastructure stack

A Plus If You 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 We Offer

• Competitive Salary & Bonus

• 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 wellness

• OneMedical subscription for 24/7 medical care

• Paid Maternity and Parental Leave

• Discounted PetPlan and at-home Covid testing with empowerDX

Few companies allow you to thrive like you will at Wurl. Join us to revolutionize the way the world watches television while enjoying mentorship, collaboration, and innovation.

We encourage all applicants, even those who don’t meet 100% of the requirements, to apply. Passion and potential go a long way here at Wurl.