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
Company Overview
Wurl leads the CTV industry in helping content publishers and streamers reach millions of viewers worldwide. It was founded in 2011, and is headquartered in Palo Alto, California, USA, with a workforce of 51-200 employees. Its website is http://www.wurl.com.Company H1B Sponsorship
Wurl has a track record of offering H1B sponsorships, with 1 in 2024, 3 in 2023, 2 in 2021, 1 in 2020. Please note that this does not guarantee sponsorship for this specific role.