Staff Platform Engineer

About the role

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-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 other engineers on production incident response, postmortems, and reliability reviews.

Delivery & Culture

• 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.

Requirements

Core Experience

• 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)

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, 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.

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 to ensure reliable, scalable, and cost-efficient data flow.

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 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

• 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.

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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
• Method of Application: Apply online

Application Window: The application window is expected to close within 30 days of the posting date.

USA Base Pay Range

CA, NY, WA States $214,000—$252,000 USD

USA Base Pay Range

all other States (excludes CA, NY, WA) $191,000—$225,000 USD

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