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. Fortune recognizes AppLovin as one of the Best Workplaces in the Bay Area, and the company has been a Certified Great Place to Work for the last four years (2021-2024). Check out the rest of our awards HERE . 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 Paren ... (truncated, view full listing at source)