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!