4 hours ago
Base Salary
$200k - $250k/yr
Responsibilities
- Lead end-to-end execution of complex platform initiatives from architecture and design through deployment and refinement.
- Design, maintain, and implement scalable platform services, automation, CI/CD, and infrastructure.
- Improve observability through logging, metrics, and alerting to strengthen reliability and incident response.
- 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.
- Provide technical guidance and mentorship while influencing engineering standards, planning, and roadmap decisions.
Requirements
- Proven experience leading complex initiatives and driving team strategy.
- Strong software engineering background with backend development and distributed-systems experience.
- Deep understanding of AWS cloud infrastructure and cloud-native architectures.
- Proficiency with Infrastructure as Code using Terraform and CloudFormation.
- Hands-on experience with CI/CD pipelines, deployment automation, and developer productivity tooling.
- Deep production expertise with Kubernetes and container orchestration.
- Strong knowledge of observability, including logging, metrics, and tracing, and experience improving system reliability.
- Experience with incident management and operational practices for large-scale systems.
- Proficiency in Go or Python.
- Familiarity with AI-assisted development tools and platform security concepts.
- Ability to collaborate across teams, communicate complex topics clearly, and influence engineering best practices.
- Preferred qualifications include global service scaling, FinOps or cloud cost management, regulated or high-availability environments, Java or Kotlin, GitHub Actions, Kafka, and Cassandra experience.
Benefits
- Work on high-impact platform engineering challenges at scale and help shape Fanatics’ developer experience and operational foundations.
- Collaborate with experienced engineers in a culture that encourages learning, growth, technical excellence, and innovation.
- Full-time, non-seasonal hires may have in-person interview or onboarding components, including a multi-day cultural immersion in New York City; specific requirements depend on role and location.
- Benefits information is provided at https://benefitsatfanatics.com/.
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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.