Fanatics

Staff Platform Engineer, Fanatics Markets - UK

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2 months ago
Edinburgh, United Kingdom or London, United KingdomStaff+

Responsibilities

  • Define enterprise-wide standards, prompt engineering patterns, and validation frameworks for AI integration.
  • Identify and quantify risks and business impacts associated with AI-generated code, including security vulnerabilities and over-abstraction.
  • Design and evolve highly available, scalable cloud-native infrastructure.
  • Architect CI/CD ecosystems and developer tooling to improve software delivery productivity.
  • Implement platform security safeguards and compliance standards.
  • Set the strategic roadmap for monitoring, tracing, alerting, and operational reliability.
  • Translate requirements across engineering, product, and quantitative teams into scalable platform solutions.
  • Mentor engineers, manage incident response strategies, and promote operational excellence and emerging technologies.

Requirements

  • At least 8 years of platform engineering or DevOps experience in scalable, high-availability cloud-native environments.
  • Expertise using Claude Code, Cursor, GitHub Copilot, or similar AI coding collaborators to ship production code.
  • Ability to evaluate AI tools and implement validation strategies for security gaps, over-abstraction, and other risks.
  • Deep expertise with Terraform, Pulumi, or CloudFormation for infrastructure automation.
  • Strong programming skills in Java and Python; Golang experience is preferred.
  • Extensive experience with CI/CD pipelines, observability, chaos testing, and incident management.
  • Ability to provide technical leadership, influence cross-functional teams, and mentor engineers.
  • Preferred qualifications include startup experience, open-source or technical community contributions, real-money transaction and regulatory compliance experience, developer tooling experience, and leading without authority.

Benefits

  • Fully remote work for candidates based in the United Kingdom.
  • Possible home office setup stipend.
  • Some full-time, non-seasonal hires may participate in onsite interviews or a multi-day cultural immersion in New York City, with requirements confirmed by role and location.
  • Visa sponsorship is not available.
Fanatics

About Fanatics

10,000+ employees

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.

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