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As a Senior Platform Engineer at Upwork, you will contribute to the operation and development of Kubernetes-based solutions, specifically within their EKS clusters and Service Mesh ecosystem (Istio). This role involves guiding scalability and stability improvements, supporting engineering teams with service operations and troubleshooting, and enhancing a decentralized application architecture focused on security, resilience, and observability.

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Upwork ($UPWK) is the world’s work marketplace. We serve everyone from one-person startups to over 30% of the Fortune 100 with a powerful, trust-driven platform that enables companies and talent to work together in new ways that unlock their potential.Last year, more than $3.8 billion of work was done through Upwork by skilled professionals who are gaining more control by finding work they are passionate about and innovating their careers.This is an engagement through Upwork’s Hybrid Workforce Solutions (HWS) Team. Our Hybrid Workforce Solutions Team is a global group of professionals that support Upwork’s business. Our HWS team members are located all over the world.---Upwork operates a large number of EKS clusters, including a robust Service Mesh ecosystem, enabling a decentralized application architecture designed to enhance security, resilience, observability, and control across applications. At the core of the Upwork’s Service Mesh lies the Kubernetes Orchestrator, specifically EKS, with Istio serving as the foundational mesh technology.In this role, you will contribute to the operations of existing installations, as well as new Kubernetes-based solutions. Collaborating with our technical user community, you will bring deep expertise to guide scalability and stability improvements early in the development lifecycle. You will work closely with Engineering teams, supporting their requests for operating and troubleshooting their services.We embrace diversity in knowledge and experience; people with different skill-sets and mindset comprise the platform engineering team, which aims at delivering the foundations of an efficient service delivery that has impact in our core product offering.<h3 class="text-xl md:text-2xl font-bold mt-8 mb-3 text-gray-800">Must Haves (Required Skills):</h3><ul class="list-disc list-inside my-5 pl-5 space-y-2 text-gray-700"><li class="leading-relaxed">Hands-on experience with microservices architectures and specifically discovery, service-to-service communication patterns, and high availability deployments on Kubernetes clusters.</li><li class="leading-relaxed">Knowledge and experience of observability and alerting components such as Prometheus, Prometheus Alert Manager, and Grafana</li><li class="leading-relaxed">Mid to high-level experience with at least one programming/scripting language, such Python or Bash, in an enterprise environment.</li><li class="leading-relaxed">Hands-on experience with AWS cloud infrastructure and ability to work with components such as VPC, IAM, EC2, ELB, Route53, KMS, Cloudwatch, Cloudtrail.</li><li class="leading-relaxed">Hands-on experience with a Container orchestration platform in AWS (mandatory EKS and optionally ECS).</li><li class="leading-relaxed">Hands-on experience with infrastructure provisioning and continuous deployment with Terraform and ArgoCD.</li><li class="leading-relaxed">Working knowledge of DevOps/GitOps and best practices for modern Devops Operations and software development.</li><li class="leading-relaxed">Experience with security best practices related to infrastructure and platform design.</li><li class="leading-relaxed">Excellent communication skills to support the engineering community and troubleshoot issues.</li></ul><h3 class="text-xl md:text-2xl font-bold mt-8 mb-3 text-gray-800">Additional experience with the following is appreciated but not required:</h3><ul class="list-disc list-inside my-5 pl-5 space-y-2 text-gray-700"><li class="leading-relaxed">Experience with service mesh solutions, especially Istio.</li><li class="leading-relaxed">Hands-on experience with GCP cloud infrastructure.</li><li class="leading-relaxed">Supporting ML workloads in Kubernetes cloud-deployed clusters.</li></ul>---Upwork is proudly committed to fostering a diverse and inclusive workforce. We never discriminate based on race, religion, color, national origin, gender (including pregnancy, childbirth, or related medical condition), sexual orientation, gender identity, gender expression, age, status as a protected veteran, status as an individual with a disability, or other applicable legally protected characteristics.Additionally, to the extent permitted under applicable law, a criminal background check may be required as a condition of engagement.We use BrightHire, an AI-enabled tool, to record interviews and summarize interview transcripts. The tool allows the interviewer to focus on the discussion and does not score or evaluate talent or make recommendations. The interview transcripts are reviewed, and decisions are only made by humans. 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Wyylde is building a high-growth challenger brand at the intersection of dating, adult social media, and modern sexual culture. We are scaling a platform designed for self-discovery, shared exploration, liberté créative and real-world connection, with strong ambitions for international growth. We’re looking for an International Growth & Business Development Lead to build market traction through lead generation, partnerships, local opportunity sourcing, and measurable growth execution. You’ll join a founding growth team at one of the industry’s fastest-growing dating and adult social media platforms, helping unlock new growth channels, support market launches, and drive measurable user acquisition. This role involves identifying local growth opportunities, generating qualified leads, building commercial relationships, validating local execution, and feeding market insight into a central growth engine, working across both members and creators/partners.

Koala Interactive, là où l’innovation rencontre l’amusement ! Nous sommes une entreprise animée par une ambition forte : créer des expériences innovantes et fun, toujours centrées sur l’utilisateur. Voici ce que l'on fait :WYYLDE : Plus qu'un réseau, une expérience ! Notre réseau social Wyylde est dédié aux célibataires, aux couples et aux curieux de tous horizons, avec une communauté respectueuse et ouverte.

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<h3 class="text-xl md:text-2xl font-bold mt-8 mb-3 text-gray-800">The position</h3><h4 class="text-lg md:text-xl font-semibold mt-6 mb-2 text-gray-800">Job description</h4>About WyyldeWyylde is building a high-growth challenger brand at the intersection of dating, adult social media, and modern sexual culture. We are scaling a platform designed for self-discovery, shared exploration, liberté créative and real-world connection, with strong ambitions for international growth. We’re looking for an International Growth & Business Development Lead to build market traction through lead generation, partnerships, local opportunity sourcing, and measurable growth execution. You’ll join a founding growth team at one of the industry’s fastest-growing dating and adult social media platforms, helping unlock new growth channels, support market launches, and drive measurable user acquisition.The role<ul class="list-disc list-inside my-5 pl-5 space-y-2 text-gray-700"><li class="leading-relaxed">This role is built for someone who can help grow a market by:</li></ul><ul class="list-disc list-inside my-5 pl-5 space-y-2 text-gray-700"><li class="leading-relaxed">identifying local growth opportunities</li></ul><ul class="list-disc list-inside my-5 pl-5 space-y-2 text-gray-700"><li class="leading-relaxed">generating qualified leads</li></ul><ul class="list-disc list-inside my-5 pl-5 space-y-2 text-gray-700"><li class="leading-relaxed">building commercial relationships</li></ul><ul class="list-disc list-inside my-5 pl-5 space-y-2 text-gray-700"><li class="leading-relaxed">validating local execution</li></ul><ul class="list-disc list-inside my-5 pl-5 space-y-2 text-gray-700"><li class="leading-relaxed">feeding sharp market insight into a central growth engine</li></ul>You will work across both sides of the marketplace:<ul class="list-disc list-inside my-5 pl-5 space-y-2 text-gray-700"><li class="leading-relaxed">Members</li></ul><ul class="list-disc list-inside my-5 pl-5 space-y-2 text-gray-700"><li class="leading-relaxed">Creators, communities, partners, and affiliates</li></ul>Your job is to help turn expansion into a measurable and repeatable growth system. You will work closely with Central Marketing, especially SEO/CRM, Paid Media, Partnerships, Social & Content + earned media agency, to turn local market insight into stronger acquisition, activation, retention, conversion, and resurrection performance. This role brings local market intelligence and execution inputs, while central strategy and channel ownership remain with Central Marketing and specialist agency partners.What you’ll do<ul class="list-disc list-inside my-5 pl-5 space-y-2 text-gray-700"><li class="leading-relaxed">Build and manage a pipeline of local leads across clubs, partners, affiliates, creators, venues, communities, and commercial opportunities</li></ul><ul class="list-disc list-inside my-5 pl-5 space-y-2 text-gray-700"><li class="leading-relaxed">Scout sponsorship and event opportunities that can increase local visibility, trust, and Wyylde member acquisition.</li></ul><ul class="list-disc list-inside my-5 pl-5 space-y-2 text-gray-700"><li class="leading-relaxed">Identify influencer candidates and support local reach-out, onboarding, and market validation with Central Marketing.</li></ul><ul class="list-disc list-inside my-5 pl-5 space-y-2 text-gray-700"><li class="leading-relaxed">Support local market launches and priority events through coordination, validation, and follow-through</li></ul><ul class="list-disc list-inside my-5 pl-5 space-y-2 text-gray-700"><li class="leading-relaxed">Source local partners, creators, affiliates, and ecosystem opportunities that can fuel acquisition, activation, and retention across both sides of the marketplace.</li></ul><ul class="list-disc list-inside my-5 pl-5 space-y-2 text-gray-700"><li class="leading-relaxed">Work with the SEO & CRM Manager to strengthen cluster performance through local keyword research, content validation, campaign feedback, audience insight, and market-specific retention opportunities.</li></ul><ul class="list-disc list-inside my-5 pl-5 space-y-2 text-gray-700"><li class="leading-relaxed">Monitor local product quality and market readiness by flagging bugs, release issues, or friction points raised by partners, creators, influencers, or users, and ensure they are logged in Jira and shared with Product and IT teams for follow-up.</li></ul><ul class="list-disc list-inside my-5 pl-5 space-y-2 text-gray-700"><li class="leading-relaxed">Provide local language, cultural validation, and market input for SEO, CRM, paid media, earned media, partnerships, and content initiatives led centrally.</li></ul><ul class="list-disc list-inside my-5 pl-5 space-y-2 text-gray-700"><li class="leading-relaxed">Track local opportunities, tests, and results with a strong KPI mindset, and contribute to weekly and monthly reporting on pipeline, traction, and market learnings.</li></ul>What this role owns<ul class="list-disc list-inside my-5 pl-5 space-y-2 text-gray-700"><li class="leading-relaxed">Lead generation</li></ul><ul class="list-disc list-inside my-5 pl-5 space-y-2 text-gray-700"><li class="leading-relaxed">Local business development</li></ul><ul class="list-disc list-inside my-5 pl-5 space-y-2 text-gray-700"><li class="leading-relaxed">Clubs & partnerships partner identification</li></ul><ul class="list-disc list-inside my-5 pl-5 space-y-2 text-gray-700"><li class="leading-relaxed">Events & sponsorship opportunity scouting</li></ul><ul class="list-disc list-inside my-5 pl-5 space-y-2 text-gray-700"><li class="leading-relaxed">Influencer candidate identification and local onboarding support</li></ul><ul class="list-disc list-inside my-5 pl-5 space-y-2 text-gray-700"><li class="leading-relaxed">Local keyword research, translation/validation, and SEO content feedback</li></ul><ul class="list-disc list-inside my-5 pl-5 space-y-2 text-gray-700"><li class="leading-relaxed">Local CRM campaign input and retention insight by cluster</li></ul><ul class="list-disc list-inside my-5 pl-5 space-y-2 text-gray-700"><li class="leading-relaxed">Reporting inputs on market activity, opportunities, and results</li></ul>What success looks likeIn your first 6 to 12 months, you will:<ul class="list-disc list-inside my-5 pl-5 space-y-2 text-gray-700"><li class="leading-relaxed">build a strong pipeline of qualified local opportunities</li></ul><ul class="list-disc list-inside my-5 pl-5 space-y-2 text-gray-700"><li class="leading-relaxed">open new partner, affiliate, creator, and business development conversations</li></ul><ul class="list-disc list-inside my-5 pl-5 space-y-2 text-gray-700"><li class="leading-relaxed">contribute to market launch and post-launch traction across acquisition, activation, retention, and resurrection</li></ul><ul class="list-disc list-inside my-5 pl-5 space-y-2 text-gray-700"><li class="leading-relaxed">deliver sharp market feedback that strengthens central strategy</li></ul><ul class="list-disc list-inside my-5 pl-5 space-y-2 text-gray-700"><li class="leading-relaxed">help make international expansion more measurable, repeatable, and scalable</li></ul><ul class="list-disc list-inside my-5 pl-5 space-y-2 text-gray-700"><li class="leading-relaxed">improve cluster-level SEO relevance, local keyword quality, and content-market fit through strong local inputs</li></ul><ul class="list-disc list-inside my-5 pl-5 space-y-2 text-gray-700"><li class="leading-relaxed">help increase CRM and lifecycle performance by surfacing local retention triggers, campaign ideas, and audience insights</li></ul>Ideal profileYou may be a fit if you have:<ul class="list-disc list-inside my-5 pl-5 space-y-2 text-gray-700"><li class="leading-relaxed">4 to 7+ years of experience in growth, business development, partnerships, market expansion, or commercial development</li></ul><ul class="list-disc list-inside my-5 pl-5 space-y-2 text-gray-700"><li class="leading-relaxed">strong lead generation and business development skills</li></ul><ul class="list-disc list-inside my-5 pl-5 space-y-2 text-gray-700"><li class="leading-relaxed">experience supporting growth strategies across acquisition, activation, retention, resurrection, or lifecycle marketing</li></ul><ul class="list-disc list-inside my-5 pl-5 space-y-2 text-gray-700"><li class="leading-relaxed">a commercial mindset and the ability to spot scalable opportunities</li></ul><ul class="list-disc list-inside my-5 pl-5 space-y-2 text-gray-700"><li class="leading-relaxed">strong reporting discipline and comfort with KPIs</li></ul><ul class="list-disc list-inside my-5 pl-5 space-y-2 text-gray-700"><li class="leading-relaxed">experience in digital platforms, marketplaces, consumer tech, creator platforms, entertainment or growth-led online businesses</li></ul><ul class="list-disc list-inside my-5 pl-5 space-y-2 text-gray-700"><li class="leading-relaxed">experience collaborating with SEO, CRM, lifecycle, or conversion teams</li></ul><ul class="list-disc list-inside my-5 pl-5 space-y-2 text-gray-700"><li class="leading-relaxed">comfort turning market insight into actionable recommendations for campaigns, content, and conversion</li></ul>Strong pluses<ul class="list-disc list-inside my-5 pl-5 space-y-2 text-gray-700"><li class="leading-relaxed">Experience in a two-sided marketplace (i.e. Members + Creators, communities, partners, and affiliates for Wyylde)</li></ul><ul class="list-disc list-inside my-5 pl-5 space-y-2 text-gray-700"><li class="leading-relaxed">Experience across multilingual or international markets</li></ul><ul class="list-disc list-inside my-5 pl-5 space-y-2 text-gray-700"><li class="leading-relaxed">Experience with affiliates, creators, local partnerships, or performance-led growth</li></ul><ul class="list-disc list-inside my-5 pl-5 space-y-2 text-gray-700"><li class="leading-relaxed">Experience in dating, sex tech, adult social media, or creator platforms, with a strong understanding of trust, consent, moderation, and the realities of intimacy-led digital products.</li></ul>Languages<ul class="list-disc list-inside my-5 pl-5 space-y-2 text-gray-700"><li class="leading-relaxed">English</li></ul><ul class="list-disc list-inside my-5 pl-5 space-y-2 text-gray-700"><li class="leading-relaxed">Italian</li></ul><ul class="list-disc list-inside my-5 pl-5 space-y-2 text-gray-700"><li class="leading-relaxed">French</li></ul>Skills we’re looking for<ul class="list-disc list-inside my-5 pl-5 space-y-2 text-gray-700"><li class="leading-relaxed">Lead generation & business development</li></ul><ul class="list-disc list-inside my-5 pl-5 space-y-2 text-gray-700"><li class="leading-relaxed">Growth strategy & funnel thinking</li></ul><ul class="list-disc list-inside my-5 pl-5 space-y-2 text-gray-700"><li class="leading-relaxed">High ownership & execution discipline</li></ul><ul class="list-disc list-inside my-5 pl-5 space-y-2 text-gray-700"><li class="leading-relaxed">SEO + CRM / lifecycle collaboration</li></ul><ul class="list-disc list-inside my-5 pl-5 space-y-2 text-gray-700"><li class="leading-relaxed">Reporting and dashboard discipline</li></ul>

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