Senior Staff Platform Engineer – Core
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Senior Staff Platform Engineer leading AWS, Kubernetes, CI/CD, and observability initiatives. Building platform infrastructure for Fanatics’ global commerce, collectibles, and betting sports platform.
Responsibilities:
- Drive technical design and delivery of core platform capabilities across cloud infrastructure, Kubernetes platforms, observability, CI/CD systems, and developer tooling
- Lead end-to-end execution of complex, multi-quarter features and systems from architecture and design through deployment and continuous refinement
- Partner with engineering teams to improve reliability, scalability, and performance of cloud-native services
- Contribute to incident response and resolution and improve availability and system stability
- Advocate for software delivery, infrastructure management, and operational excellence best practices
- Mentor engineers and contribute to engineering culture
- Track emerging technologies and industry trends and bring innovative solutions to the team
Requirements:
- Based in the United States
- Proven experience leading and delivering complex cross-team, multi-quarter initiatives
- Experience breaking down complex work into milestones and delivering predictably using agile practices
- Strong software engineering background, including backend development and distributed systems
- Deep understanding of AWS and cloud-native architectures
- Proficiency in Infrastructure as Code, including Terraform and CloudFormation
- Experience with CI/CD pipelines, deployment automation, and developer productivity tooling
- Deep expertise with Kubernetes and container orchestration in production
- Strong knowledge of observability, including logging, metrics, and tracing
- Experience with incident management and operational best practices for large-scale systems
- Proficiency in Go or Python
- Ability to collaborate across teams, communicate complex topics clearly, and influence engineering best practices
- Outcome-driven mindset
- Positive, adaptable attitude
- Nice to have: experience scaling services globally; FinOps or cloud cost management; regulated or high-availability environments; Java or Kotlin; GitHub Actions; Kafka and Cassandra
Benefits:
- In-person onboarding/cultural immersion may be included for full-time, non-seasonal hires
- Benefits information provided at https://benefitsatfanatics.com/
- Learning, growth, and technical leadership opportunities
- High-impact platform engineering work at scale
- Collaboration with experienced engineers
- Opportunity to shape developer experience and operational foundations


















