[Remote] Staff Platform Engineer

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

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