[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.ResponsibilitiesDefine, 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 workflowsOptimize scalability and cost-per-performance using metrics-driven automation and autoscaling technologies such as KarpenterDevelop and maintain observability across the platform using Prometheus, Grafana, and distributed tracingLead cross-functional efforts with application teams to define SLOs and capacity models for mission-critical servicesLead major production incident response efforts, drive blameless postmortems, and mentor other engineers on production incident response, postmortems, and reliability reviewsCreate and operate resilient CI/CD pipelines for safe, rapid deployments and rollbacksChampion automation, low-toil operations, and a culture of continuous improvementDevelop agentic workflows utilizing the team-wide context layer and operational data to accelerate development without compromising reliabilityAct as a technical leader and mentor to elevate the team, with a strong ability to listen, evaluate, and give constructive feedback on ideasSkillsDemonstrated 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 deploymentDeep 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 controllersSolid 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 targetsExperience with advanced GitOps patterns using Github WorkflowsExposure to extended observability tools such as Loki or TempoExperience designing or operating distributed, high-throughput stateful data pipelines to ensure reliable, scalable, and cost-efficient data flowBenefitsCompetitive Salary & EquityStrong Medical, Dental and Vision Benefits, 100% paid by WurlRemote first policyFlexible Time Off10 US Holidays401(k) MatchingPre-Tax Savings Plans, HSA & FSAGinger, Aaptiv and Headspace subscriptions for mental and physical wellnessOneMedical subscription for 24/7 convenient medical carePaid Maternity and Parental Leave for all family additionsDiscounted PetPlan and easy at home access to Covid testing with empowerDX$1k Work From Home Stipend to set up your OfficeMedical, Dental, Vision, Life, Disability401(k) Retirement PlanUnlimited Discretionary Time Off10 paid holidays per year80 hours per yearCompany OverviewWurl 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 SponsorshipWurl 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.