[Remote] Senior Software Engineer, Ad Platform
Note: The job is a remote job and is open to candidates in USA. Wurl, LLC is a company focused on advancing the streaming industry through innovative technologies and services. They are seeking a Senior Software Engineer to build and optimize high-concurrency Go services for their real-time advertising platform, ensuring performance and reliability under heavy loads.
Responsibilities
- Lead the design and implementation of complex features within our Go-based ad-serving stack, optimized for high throughput
- Use pprof and tracer to eliminate bottlenecks; tune memory allocation and goroutine usage to meet aggressive p99 latency targets
- Maintain high-speed support for OpenRTB and VAST protocols, focusing on efficient request parsing and validation
- Integrate services with Kafka pipelines and with low-latency data stores to support real-time decisioning
- Work closely with Platform Engineers to ensure application behavior aligns with infrastructure capabilities, specifically around auto-scaling triggers, networking, and deep observability
- Implement reliability patterns (circuit breakers, retries, graceful degradation) to maintain uptime during traffic surges
- Take end-to-end responsibility for services, from initial design through deployment to Kubernetes (EKS) and production monitoring
- Lead design reviews, providing critical feedback on system architecture, data modeling, and API design
- Grow the team through thoughtful code reviews and informal sessions on Go best practices and distributed systems
Skills
- 5+ years of professional experience building high-scale services in Go, with a deep understanding of internals (GC, scheduling, and memory management)
- Proven track record of operating distributed systems handling 100k+ RPS
- Mastery of goroutines, channels, and synchronization primitives
- Experience with OpenRTB, VAST, or similar programmatic advertising technologies preferred
- Practical experience running and debugging services in Kubernetes and AWS environments
- A pragmatic architect who values simple, effective solutions over over-engineered abstractions
- Experience with Intercal to create scalable, modern distributed systems
Benefits
- 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
- 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
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