
Platform Engineer
AppLovin
full-time
Posted on:
Location Type: Remote
Location: United States
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Salary
💰 $124,000 - $186,000 per year
About the role
- 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.
- 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.
- 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
- 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)
- 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.
- 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.
Benefits
- 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
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Hard Skills & Tools
IaCCDKTerraformGitOpsKubernetesGoPythonTypeScriptCI/CDPromQL
Soft Skills
collaborationleadershipincident responsecontinuous improvementautomation