Staff Platform Engineer

This is a fully remote position, open to applicants in California, +2 more states.

📋 Description

• Define, design, and establish standards for composable Infrastructure as Code (IaC) patterns using CDK or Terraform for Cloud Infrastructure (EKS).

• Promote the adoption and implementation of composable, idempotent, multi-environment GitOps workflows.

• Enhance scalability and optimize cost-per-performance through metrics-driven automation and autoscaling technologies such as Karpenter.

• Create and sustain observability across the platform utilizing Prometheus, Grafana, and distributed tracing techniques.

• Lead collaborative initiatives with application teams to establish Service Level Objectives (SLOs) and capacity models for essential services.

• Oversee major production incident responses, facilitate blameless postmortems, and mentor fellow engineers on incident response, postmortems, and reliability evaluations.

• Design and manage resilient CI/CD pipelines to ensure safe and rapid deployments and rollbacks.

• Advocate for automation, minimal toil operations, and foster a culture of continuous improvement.

• Develop agentic workflows that leverage the team-wide context layer and operational data to expedite development while maintaining reliability.

• Serve as a technical leader and mentor to uplift the team, demonstrating strong listening skills and the ability to evaluate and provide constructive feedback on ideas.

⛳️ Requirements

• Proven expertise in architecting, deploying, and maintaining high-throughput, low-latency distributed systems within cloud production environments, ideally in Platform, SRE, or DevOps roles. Previous ownership of a stateful deployment is essential.

• In-depth skills in systems-level coding for automation and systems development, particularly in Go, Python, or TypeScript.

• Demonstrated experience operating Kubernetes at scale (EKS preferred) and implementing IaC patterns (CDK, Terraform).

• Familiarity with GitOps and reconciliation loops in Kubernetes controllers.

• Strong experience with CI/CD systems, including GitHub Actions and AWS CodePipeline.

• Expertise in defining, designing, and optimizing global monitoring and alerting pipelines, including PromQL, metrics correlation, and 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, including IAM, encryption, network segmentation, and zero trust principles.

• Proven capability to conduct comprehensive performance analysis, tuning, and optimization across the entire infrastructure stack to meet cost-per-performance and latency objectives.

🏝️ Benefits

• Strong Medical, Dental and Vision Benefits, fully covered by Wurl.

• Remote-first work policy.

• Flexible Time Off.

• 10 US Holidays.

• 401(k) Matching.

• Pre-Tax Savings Plans, Health Savings Account (HSA) & Flexible Spending Account (FSA).

• Subscriptions to Ginger, Aaptiv, and Headspace 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 through empowerDX.

• $1,000 Work From Home Stipend to establish your office.