Staff Platform Engineer

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-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 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 & 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

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.