Platform Engineer

About AppLovin

AppLovin makes technologies that help businesses of every size connect to their ideal customers. The company provides end-to-end software and AI solutions for businesses to reach, monetize and grow their global audiences. For more information about AppLovin, visit: www.applovin.com.

To deliver on this mission, our global team is composed of team members with life experiences, backgrounds, and perspectives that mirror our developers and customers around the world. At AppLovin, we are intentional about the team and culture we are building, seeking candidates who are outstanding in their own right and also demonstrate their support of others.

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Platform Engineer:

Wurl is seeking a Platform Engineer to help design and operate the systems that power our ad-serving and streaming platforms. You’ll build and evolve 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 playing a key role in enabling our engineers to deliver world-class video and advertising experiences.

Responsibilities

Platform Infrastructure & Automation

• 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.

Observability & Reliability

• 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.

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.

Requirements

Core Experience

• 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)

Operational Excellence

• 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.

A Plus if you have:

• 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.

What We Offer:

• Competitive Salary & Equity

• Strong Medical, Dental and Vision Benefits, 100% paid by Wurl

• Remote first policy

• Flexible Time Off

• 10 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

Few companies allow you to thrive like you will at Wurl. Join us to revolutionize the way the world watches television while enjoying mentorship, collaboration, and innovation.

We encourage all applicants, even those who don’t meet 100% of the requirements, to apply. Passion and potential go a long way here at Wurl.

AppLovin provides a competitive total compensation package with a pay for performance rewards approach. Total compensation at AppLovin is based on a number of factors including market location and may vary depending on job-related knowledge, skills, and experience. Depending on the position offered, equity, and other forms of incentive compensation (as applicable) may be provided as part of a total compensation package, in addition to dental, vision, and other benefits.

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

Method of Application: Apply online

Application Window: The application window is expected to close within 30 days of the posting date.

All questions or concerns about this posting should be directed to [email protected].

USA Base Pay Range: CA, NY, WA States
$146,000—$218,000 USD

USA Base Pay Range: all other States (excludes CA, NY, WA)
$124,000—$186,000 USD

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