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Salary: USD 170,000 - 212,500 / annual
Fanatics is a leading global digital sports platform serving over 100 million sports fans worldwide. The company operates across three main pillars: Fanatics Commerce (licensed fan gear, jerseys, apparel), Fanatics Collectibles (physical and digital trading cards, memorabilia), and Fanatics Betting & Gaming (sportsbook and iGaming platform). With 22,000+ employees and partnerships with approximately 900 sports properties, Fanatics is a major player in the sports fan engagement ecosystem.
The Platform team is responsible for providing engineering teams with the infrastructure, tooling, and systems needed to deploy and run Fanatics' core critical services. As a Senior Platform Engineer, you will design and deliver well-scoped platform projects, breaking requirements into executable work for yourself and teammates. You will build reliable, extensible systems, own operational health of services, lead incident response and root cause analysis, and mentor other engineers.
Key responsibilities include:
- Design, implement, and maintain scalable platform services and infrastructure supporting Fanatics' technology ecosystem
- Build and improve developer tooling, automation, and CI/CD workflows to streamline software delivery
- Contribute to observability initiatives (logging, metrics, alerting) to improve system reliability and incident response
- Develop and maintain Infrastructure as Code solutions using Terraform for consistent, secure environments
- Design, implement, and optimize CI/CD pipelines to improve deployment speed and reliability
- Partner with application and platform teams to improve performance, scalability, and reliability in cloud-native environments
- Participate in incident response, post-incident reviews, and reliability improvements
- Advocate for best practices in infrastructure, software delivery, and operational excellence
- Provide technical guidance and mentorship to other engineers
- Continuously learn and apply new technologies to platform engineering challenges
You will work in a fast-paced environment focused on high-impact platform engineering at scale, collaborating with experienced engineers who value technical excellence and innovation.
REQUIREMENTS:
- Strong software engineering background with experience in backend systems and distributed architectures
- Solid understanding of AWS cloud platform and cloud-native architectures
- Hands-on experience with Infrastructure as Code tools (Terraform or CloudFormation)
- Experience building and maintaining CI/CD pipelines and automation tooling
- Experience running workloads in Kubernetes and containerized production environments
- Working knowledge of observability tools and practices (logging, metrics, alerting)
- Experience participating in incident management and operational support for production systems
- Proficiency in Go or Python (preferred)
- Familiarity with AI-assisted development tools
- Strong collaboration and communication skills, ability to work effectively across teams
- Pragmatic, outcome-oriented mindset focused on delivering reliable platform solutions
- Comfortable operating in fast-paced, evolving environment
NICE TO HAVE:
- Experience scaling services globally
- FinOps or cloud cost management experience
- Regulated or high-availability environment experience
- Experience with Java or Kotlin
- Familiarity with GitHub Actions
- Experience with Kafka and Cassandra
