Go Expertise: 5+ years of professional experience building high-scale services in Go, with a deep understanding of internals (GC, scheduling, and memory management).
Go Expertise
High-Scale Systems: Proven track record of operating distributed systems handling 100k+ RPS.
High-Scale Systems:
Concurrency: Mastery of goroutines, channels, and synchronization primitives.
Concurrency:
Domain Context: Experience with OpenRTB, VAST, or similar programmatic advertising technologies preferred.
Domain Context:
Infrastructure: Practical experience running and debugging services in Kubernetes and AWS environments
Infrastructure:
Mindset: A pragmatic architect who values simple, effective solutions over over-engineered abstractions.
Mindset:
Why Wurl?
Why Wurl?
Go as a First-Class Citizen: Join a specialized environment where performance is the primary feature.
Go as a First-Class Citizen:
Engineering at the Edge: Tackle the unique concurrency and networking challenges that only emerge at the "hundreds of thousands of RPS" threshold.
Engineering at the Edge:
Direct Visibility: See your optimizations immediately move the needle on revenue and the ad experience for millions of global streamers.
Direct Visibility:
Responsibilities
Technical Execution & Performance
Feature Ownership: Lead the design and implementation of complex features within our Go-based ad-serving stack, optimized for high throughput.
Feature Ownership:
Systems Optimization: Use pprof and tracer to eliminate bottlenecks; tune memory allocation and goroutine usage to meet aggressive p99 latency targets.
Systems Optimization:
Protocol Mastery: Maintain high-speed support for OpenRTB and VAST protocols, focusing on efficient request parsing and validation.
Protocol Mastery
Stream Processing: Integrate services with Kafka pipelines and with low-latency data stores to support real-time decisioning.
Stream Processing
Operational Excellence & Partnership
Platform Partnership: Work closely with Platform Engineers to ensure application behavior aligns with infrastructure capabilities, specifically around auto-scaling triggers, networking, and deep observability.
Platform Partnership:
Defensive Engineering: Implement reliability patterns (circuit breakers, retries, graceful degradation) to maintain uptime during traffic surges.
Defensive Engineering:
Production Ownership: Take end-to-end responsibility for services, from initial design through deployment to Kubernetes (EKS) and production monitoring.
Production Ownership:
Team Leadership
Team Leadership
Architectural Rigor: Lead design reviews, providing critical feedback on system architecture, data modeling, and API design.
Architectural Rigor:
Mentorship: Grow the team through thoughtful code reviews and informal sessions on Go best practices and distributed systems.
Mentorship:
Benefits
Competitive Salary & bonus program
Strong Medical, Dental and Vision Benefits, 100% paid by Wurl
Remote first policy
Flexible Time Off
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
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
Health Insurance:
Retirement Benefits: 401(k) Retirement Plan
Paid Time Off: Unlimited Discretionary Time Off
Paid Time Off:
Paid Holidays: 10 paid holidays per year
Paid Holidays:
Paid Sick Leave: 80 hours per year
Paid Sick Leave:
Method of Application: Apply online
Method of Application:
Application Window: The application window is expected to close within 30 days of the posting date.
Application Window:
All questions or concerns about this posting should be directed to [email protected].
$161,000 - $241,000 USD
USA Base Pay Range: all other States (excludes CA, NY, WA)