Wurl · 2 days ago
Senior Platform Engineer
United States
Full-time
Remote
Senior Level
$170K/yr - $256K/yrWurl, LLC is a company focused on creating innovative technologies and services for the streaming industry. They are seeking a Senior Platform Engineer to design and operate systems that power their ad-serving and streaming platforms, ensuring reliability and performance while supporting deployment and scalability.
AdvertisingContent Delivery NetworkContent MarketingMedia and EntertainmentTVVideo Streaming
Responsibilities
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
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
Create and operate resilient CI/CD pipelines for safe, rapid deployments and rollbacks
Champion automation, low-toil operations, and a culture of continuous improvement
Qualification
Required
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)
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
Preferred
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
Benefits
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
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
Company
Wurl
Wurl leads the CTV industry in helping content publishers and streamers reach millions of viewers worldwide.
Founded in 2011
51-200 employees
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Funding
Current Stage
Growth StageTotal Funding
$31M2022-02-28Acquired
2021-02-01Series B· $11M
2018-10-09Series A· $16M
Leadership Team
Dave Bernath
Chief Executive Officer
Recent News
2025-10-16
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