Senior Infrastructure Engineer - Core Platform

Underdog Fantasy; United States; Remote; USD 160,000 - 240,000; Full time

Job summary

A leading sports technology company is seeking a Senior Infrastructure Engineer to build and maintain cloud infrastructure solutions. The ideal candidate has over 5 years of experience with distributed computing and containerization technologies. Responsibilities include developing deployment workflows and ensuring system reliability. This role offers a salary range of $160,000 to $240,000, plus benefits like unlimited PTO and paid parental leave.

Benefits

Unlimited PTO

16 weeks paid parental leave

$500 home office allowance

401k match

Company-paid health benefits

Qualifications

• 5+ years experience building cloud infrastructure.
• Strong familiarity with SQL Database and monitoring tools.
• Expert with infrastructure-as-code tools.

Responsibilities

• Build infrastructure solutions for cloud applications.
• Design and maintain key cloud infrastructure systems.
• Implement monitoring and observability for application health.

Skills

Distributed computing infrastructure

Containerization (Kubernetes, ECS, Docker)

CI/CD pipelines

Monitoring/observability platforms

OOP languages (Ruby/Rails, Typescript, Python)

Networking in private cloud environments

Tools

AWS

GCP

Azure

Terraform

CDK

CloudFormation

Job description

United States/Remote

At Underdog, we make sports more fun.

Our thesis is simple: build the best products and we’ll build the biggest company in the space, because there’s so much more to be built for sports fans. We’re just over five years in, and we’re one of the fastest-growing sports companies ever, most recently valued at $1.3B. And it’s still the early days.

We’ve built and scaled multiple games and products across fantasy sports, sports betting, and prediction markets, all united in one seamless, simple, easy to use, intuitive and fun app.

Underdog isn’t for everyone. One of our core values is give a sh*t. The people who win here are the ones who care, push, and perform. If that’s you, come join us.

Winning as an Underdog is more fun.

About the role

• As a Senior Infrastructure Engineer on the Infrastructure Engineering team, you’ll be building infrastructure solutions to accelerate the development of Underdog’s cloud infrastructure and deployment workflows
• Design, build, and maintain key cloud infrastructure systems including distributed storage, distributed compute, database, caching and delivery network infrastructure while ensuring scalability, reliability, and security
• Accelerate developer productivity by building best in class tooling, infrastructure, and automation workflows
• Collaborate with engineers to understand core system requirements and translate them into scalable technical solutions
• Implement and maintain monitoring, alerting, and observability mechanisms to ensure the health and performance of Underdog’s application infrastructure
• Research and keep up to date on emerging technologies and trends and focus on iteratively implementing them into Underdog’s systems

Who you are

• 5+ years experience building distributed computing and distributed data storage infrastructure on a cloud environment (e.g. AWS, GCP, Azure)
• 5+ years experience with containerization and orchestration technologies such as Kubernetes, ECS, or Docker
• Strong familiarity containerization, SQL Database and monitoring/observability platforms.
• Experience working with networking in private cloud environments and enabling cross account VPC peering functionality between multiple cloud accounts
• Expert with DevOps practices such as CI/CD pipelines, and infrastructure-as-code tools (e.g. Terraform, CDK, CloudFormation)
• Experience being on an on-call rotation
• Proficiency with Ruby/Rails, Typescript, Python, or other OOP languages (at least 2)

Even better if you have

• Strong interest in sports
• Prior experience in the sports betting industry
• Experience with managing load spike traffic patterns

Our target starting base salary range for this position is between $160,000 and $240,000, plus pre-IPO equity. Our comp range reflects the full scale of expected compensation for this role. Offers are calibrated based on experience, skills, impact, and geographies. Most new hires land in the lower half of the band, with the opportunity to advance toward the upper end over time.

What we can offer you:

• Unlimited PTO (we're extremely flexible with the exception of the first few weeks before & into the NFL season)
• 16 weeks of fully paid parental leave
• A $500 home office allowance
• A connected virtual first culture with a highly engaged distributed workforce
• 5% 401k match, FSA, company paid health, dental, vision plan options for employees and dependents

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This position may require sports betting licensure based on certain state regulations.

Underdog is an equal opportunity employer and doesn't discriminate on the basis of creed, race, sexual orientation, gender, age, disability status, or any other defining characteristic.