Wurl
Staff Platform Engineer
$191K–$252K
Remote - United States · Remote · Staff · Full-time · Posted Mar 23, 2026
About the job
Leads the design and operation of Wurl’s cloud platform infrastructure for reliable, cost-efficient, high-throughput ad-serving and streaming workloads.
What you'll do
- Architect infrastructure-as-code and GitOps patterns, and optimize scalability and cost-performance with automation and autoscaling.
- Build observability and reliability practices, define SLOs and capacity models with application teams, and lead incident response and postmortems.
- Operate resilient CI/CD and develop agentic workflows using team context and operational data; mentor engineers.
What they ask for
- Expertise architecting, deploying, and maintaining high-throughput, low-latency distributed systems in cloud production environments; prior ownership of a stateful deployment.
- Systems-level coding skills in Go, Python, or TypeScript; experience operating Kubernetes at scale and applying IaC patterns.
- Working knowledge of GitOps and Kubernetes controller reconciliation loops; experience with CI/CD systems.
- Experience with monitoring and alerting pipelines, streaming or ad-serving workloads, AWS network architecture, cloud security, and infrastructure performance optimization.
Nice to have
- EKS; CDK or Terraform.
- Advanced GitOps patterns using Github Workflows; Loki or Tempo; distributed high-throughput stateful data pipelines.
Pay
$214,000 — $252,000 USD base salary; $191,000 — $225,000 USD base salary
Tools
Go, Python, TypeScript, Kubernetes, EKS, CDK, Terraform, GitHub Actions
AI focus
Develop agentic workflows using the team-wide context layer and operational data to accelerate development without compromising reliability.
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