Note: The job is a remote job and is open to candidates in USA. Wurl is a company focused on innovative technologies and services in the streaming industry. They are seeking a Staff Platform Engineer to build and operate the systems powering their ad-serving and streaming platforms, ensuring reliability and efficiency while enabling engineering teams to deliver high-quality video and advertising experiences.
Responsibilities
- 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
- 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
- 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
Skills
- 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)
- 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
- 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
Benefits
- 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
- Medical, Dental, Vision, Life, Disability
- 401(k) Retirement Plan
- Unlimited Discretionary Time Off
- 10 paid holidays per year
- 80 hours per year
Company Overview
Wurl leads the CTV industry in helping content publishers and streamers reach millions of viewers worldwide. It was founded in 2011, and is headquartered in Palo Alto, California, USA, with a workforce of 51-200 employees. Its website is http://www.wurl.com.Company H1B Sponsorship
Wurl has a track record of offering H1B sponsorships, with 1 in 2024, 3 in 2023, 2 in 2021, 1 in 2020. Please note that this does not guarantee sponsorship for this specific role.