2 months ago
Base Salary
$173k - $216k/yr
Responsibilities
- Own production PostgreSQL/RDS database portfolios through query review, schema change approval, performance tuning, and incident triage.
- Operate and evolve the Kafka/MSK streaming platform, including topic lifecycle management, cluster health, and Debezium CDC pipeline reliability.
- Build and maintain self-service tooling for product teams to provision database and streaming resources.
- Lead stability, operator and version upgrade, root-cause remediation, capacity optimization, and cost optimization initiatives.
- Serve as the technical escalation point for incidents involving shared data infrastructure such as replication lag, connection exhaustion, and CPU or throughput issues.
- Represent Platform Storage in cross-organizational infrastructure and standardization initiatives.
- Mentor engineers and participate in on-call rotations.
Requirements
- 8+ years of platform, infrastructure, or database engineering experience.
- Deep hands-on production experience operating PostgreSQL/RDS at scale.
- Strong production experience operating Kafka, including topic management and CDC or event-streaming pipelines.
- Strong SQL skills for diagnosing query performance issues and reviewing schema changes.
- Expertise with Infrastructure as Code using Terraform.
- Experience owning production database reliability across multiple downstream teams.
- Strong cross-team communication and technical partnership skills.
- Preferred experience with GitOps-managed Kubernetes operators such as Strimzi or equivalent.
- Preferred operational experience with MongoDB or DynamoDB.
- Preferred experience with pgbouncer, connection pooling, query-level performance diagnostics, and platform cost optimization at multi-cluster scale.
- Exposure to regulated or high-availability environments such as gaming or fintech is preferred.
Benefits
- Full-time employment benefits are provided; details are available through Fanatics’ benefits site.
- The role is based in the United States and may include in-person interviews or a multi-day New York City cultural immersion for eligible full-time, non-seasonal hires.
- Travel and in-person participation requirements will be confirmed based on role and location.
Tech Stack
About Fanatics
Fanatics is a New York–based digital sports platform that sells licensed team merchandise, trading cards, and operates a growing online sportsbook for fans. Its businesses span e-commerce for leagues and teams, manufacturing and distributing collectibles (including the Topps trading card brand), and betting and iGaming. The privately held company operates globally and powers official online stores and in-venue retail for major professional and college sports organizations.