Platform Engineer (Remote / Contract)

Verve For Advertisers is a technology company that empowers brands and agencies to connect moments of discovery and drive measurable outcomes across screens.

As part of Verve, we've unified the company's demand-side offering, bringing together the largest on-site search intent dataset outside of walled gardens, direct SDK integrations with top apps, alongside data partnerships with 3M+ websites and LLMs. Our technology captures both what consumers do and why they do it, delivering high-fidelity audiences, insights, and activation across premium omnichannel inventory.

We are looking for a Platform Engineer to join our dev ops team to help us manage our diverse and growing set of initiatives. This position is a contract role and can work remotely anywhere in the US or outside of the US. They should be willing and open to collaborate with our US based engineering team during their business hours.

Responsibilities include

• Automate infrastructure provisioning and configuration using Infrastructure-as-Code (Terraform)
• Develop, implement, and optimize CI/CD pipelines (GitHub Actions, ArgoCD)
• Manage Kubernetes clusters (EKS, GKE)
• Create and maintain Helm charts for applications and services
• Ensure platform scalability, reliability, and availability (load balancing, auto-scaling, disaster recovery)
• Set up and manage observability and monitoring solutions (Grafana, New Relic, OpenTelemetry)
• Provide operational support for primary revenue-generating applications, participating proactively in incident resolution
• Guide development teams on infrastructure best practices, security standards, and platform usage
• Contribute to the team's on-call rotation

Technologies we use

• Programming Languages
• Ruby/Rails
• Elixir
• Python
• JavaScript (JQuery, AngularJS, Vue.js)
• Cloud Platforms
• AWS - EKS, ECS, RDS (MySQL, PostgresSQL, Redis, Elasticache, CodePipeline)
• GCP - GKE, BiqQuery, Dataflow, Cloud Functions, Cloud Build)

Preferred skills and experience

• 2+ years of relevant work experience

Hourly Rate: $30-40/hour

We’re open to allowing the right person to learn our industry on the job. We welcome diversity and non-traditional paths into all of our roles. We believe in hiring the right person as opposed to the right combination of keywords.