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; an Ad Tech Company of the Year finalist by the UK Business Tech Awards in 2023; a BIG Innovation Awards winner in 2024 and 2025; and the “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 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 & 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. AppLovin provides a competitive total compensation package with a pay for performance rewards approach. Total compensation at AppLovin is based on a number of factors including market location and may vary depending on job-related knowledge, skills, and experience. Depending on the position offered, equity, and other forms of incentive compensation (as applicable) may be provided as part of a total compensation package, in addition to dental, vision, and other benefits. 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. All questions or concerns about this posting should be directed to [email protected]. USA Base Pay Range: CA, NY, WA States $146,000—$218,000 USD USA Base Pay Range: all other States (excludes CA, NY, WA) $124,000—$186,000 USD AppLovin is proud to be an equal opportunity employer that is committed to inclusion and diversity. All applicants will be considered for employment without attention to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, veteran or disability status, or other legally protected characteristics. Learn more about EEO rights as an applicant here. If you need assistance and/or a reasonable accommodation due to a disability during the application or recruiting process, please send us a request at [email protected]. AppLovin will consider for employment all qualified applicants with criminal histories in a manner consistent with applicable law. If you’re applying for a position in California, learn more here. Please read our Global Applicant Privacy Notice to learn more about how AppLovin processes your personal information. Apply To This Job