Remote Platform Engineer - AI-Driven, Low-Latency Cloud

Fanatics Inc.; New York (NY); Hybrid; GBP 120,000 - 180,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Home office stipend

Remote work in UK

Job summary

Fanatics Markets is seeking a Staff Software Engineer to define the technical direction of our platform underpinning exchange and trading systems. You will lead architecture, tooling, and infrastructure to enable low-latency, highly available services while mentoring engineers across teams.

You will work hands-on with Kubernetes, AWS, Terraform and CI/CD, balancing performance, security and cost. The role combines coding and infrastructure leadership within a fast-growing, high-growth startup

Qualifications

• Significant backend/platform engineering experience delivering production software and cloud-native environments.
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Responsibilities

• Lead design and development of software tools, services and automation for infrastructure, reliability and developer experience.
• Define and evolve cloud-native architecture balancing performance, reliability, security and cost.
• Set direction for CI/CD pipelines and developer tooling while remaining hands-on.
• Develop load-testing environments, mock services, and integrations.
• Establish AI-augmented development standards and validation practices.
• Identify AI-generated code risks and improve quality and security.
• Shape platform security safeguards and compliance standards.
• Lead observability improvements: monitoring, tracing, alerts, automated recovery.
• Collaborate with product and engineering leads to scale platform solutions.
• Mentor engineers, lead design discussions and raise engineering standards across teams.
• Participate in on-call rotation and drive incident prevention improvements.

Skills

Software architecture

Backend engineering

Kubernetes

AWS

Terraform

Java

Python

Go

Distributed systems

CI/CD

Observability

AI-assisted development

Code review & mentoring

Technical leadership

Tools

Kubernetes

Terraform

AWS

Prometheus

Grafana

Datadog

Claude Code

Cursor

GitHub Copilot

Job description

Fanatics Markets is seeking a Staff Software Engineer to define the technical direction of our platform underpinning exchange and trading systems. You will lead architecture, tooling, and infrastructure to enable low-latency, highly available services while mentoring engineers across teams.

You will work hands-on with Kubernetes, AWS, Terraform and CI/CD, balancing performance, security and cost. The role combines coding and infrastructure leadership within a fast-growing, high-growth startup