Staff Platform Engineer

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 con