Senior Platform Engineer (Data & Infrastructure): LATAM

About Assertive Yield
Assertive Yield B.V., a scale-up PubTech company in the AdTech ecosystem, caters to some of the largest publishers worldwide. Our distinct granular data analytics platform sets us apart from the rest of the market. While our HQ is in Amsterdam, our team is globally dispersed. We aim to provide publishers with comprehensive and dependable analytical data powered by machine learning and cutting-edge technologies, creating a single source of truth for holistic revenue analysis.
As we continue to grow, we are seeking a Senior Platform Engineer in LATAM to join our team. The ideal candidate will be responsible for running AY's data and infrastructure foundation as products other teams can use, starting with databases and storage
Key Responsibilities
Own the Databases and Storage products: provisioning, backups and restore drills, upgrades, capacity
Tune database config together with the engineering teams
Share ownership of Network with the existing team
Gather customer feedback and run a roadmap per platform product
Take part in platform on-call and joint postmortems
Senior ownership
Leads incidents end-to-end and writes clear RCAs.
Plans and runs migrations independently.
Acts as product owner for platform products: talks to dev teams, turns their friction into a roadmap, and decides what becomes self-service.
Required Experience
Operated high-throughput data stores. ClickHouse preferred: replication, upgrades, backups and restores, capacity. Comfortable debugging disk, memory and network bottlenecks at the OS level
Storage. Ceph and/or S3-compatible object storage: recovery, quotas, retention
Kubernetes in production on bare metal. Running stateful workloads on self-managed clusters
Networking fundamentals. DNS, load balancing, TLS, ingress, CDN. Strong enough to share ownership
Required Technical Skills
Linux: performance debugging (disk I/O, memory, network) and kernel tuning
ClickHouse or a comparable columnar/OLAP database, run at scale
Ceph and/or S3-compatible object storage
Kubernetes: self-managed clusters, stateful workloads, Helm
Networking: DNS, TLS, L4/L7 load balancing, Envoy or a similar ingress, CDN
Scripting: Bash and at least one other programming language
Nice-to-have Skills
Capacity planning and cost forecasting.
Go or other software skills for building self-service tooling.
Bare-metal provisioning across multiple providers.
What We Offer
🌍 Fully Remote Role: Work from home.
⏳ Flexible Work Hours: Choose a schedule that suits your productivity style.
🧠 Professional Growth: Opportunities for career advancement and continuous learning.
🎯 High Impact: Your work will directly support our clients and shape our product's future.
🤝 Smart & Supportive Team: Join a diverse and driven group of professionals passionate about pushing AdTech boundaries.
If you're passionate about building powerful systems that fuel data-driven decisions, Assertive Yield is the perfect place to advance your career. Apply now and join our exciting journey to reshape the future of digital publishing!

Work arrangement
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