Senior Platform Engineer

Reposted 16 Days Ago
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Hiring Remotely in United States
Remote
170K-256K Annually
Senior level
AdTech
The Role
The Senior Platform Engineer will design and maintain cloud infrastructure, automate workflows, ensure observability and reliability, and optimize performance while enabling delivery and culture of continuous improvement.
Summary Generated by Built In

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.


Wurl is seeking a Senior Platform Engineer to help design and operate the systems that power our ad-serving and streaming platforms. You’ll build and evolve 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 playing a key role in enabling our engineers to deliver world-class video and advertising experiences.

What You’ll Do:Platform Infrastructure & Automation
  • Design and maintain composable IaC (CDK or Terraform) patterns for Cloud Infrastructure (EKS).
  • 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.
  • Collaborate with application teams to define SLIs/SLOs and capacity models for mission-critical services.
  • Lead or participate in 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.
Qualifications:Core Experience
  • Established experience operating high-throughput, low-latency distributed systems in cloud production environments, ideally in Platform, SRE, or DevOps roles.
  • Strong 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
  • Skilled in designing 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).
  • Ability to measure, analyze, and tune performance to achieve optimal cost and latency targets.
Nice-to-Have:
  • Experience with advanced GitOps patterns using Argo CD
  • Exposure to extended observability tools such as Loki or Tempo
  • Experience designing or operating high-throughput 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 
  • 12 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 

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.

USA Base Pay Range: CA, NY, WA States
$170,000$256,000 USD
USA Base Pay Range: all other States (excludes CA, NY, WA)
$144,000$216,000 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.

Top Skills

AWS
Aws Codepipeline
Cdk
Eks
Github Actions
Gitops
Go
Grafana
Kafka
Kubernetes
Prometheus
Python
Terraform
Typescript
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The Company
HQ: Palo Alto, CA
152 Employees
Year Founded: 2011

What We Do

Since 2017, Wurl has been on a mission to make TV better for everyone. Today, Wurl is the world leader in powering streaming TV. Our video distribution and advertising services reach over 300 million connected TVs, delivering hundreds of millions of hours of TV viewing and millions of individually targeted ads. Wurl’s innovative, market-leading technologies enable content companies, streamers and advertising to continually reach new viewers and grow revenue.

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