Senior Platform Engineer — AI-Driven DevOps & Cloud

Fanatics Inc.; United States; Remote; USD 150,000 - 210,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Home office setup stipend

Job summary

Fanatics Inc. is seeking a Senior Platform Engineer to drive core infrastructure and developer experience. You will own features end-to-end, champion platform standards, and mentor mid-level engineers while deeply integrating in the codebase.

We leverage AI collaborators to accelerate production code with high quality, while mitigating risks. You will build scalable cloud-native environments (AWS/Kubernetes), advance CI/CD pipelines, and enhance observability through monitoring, tracing, and

Qualifications

• 5+ years of platform engineering, DevOps, or backend engineering experience in cloud-native environments (AWS/Kubernetes).
• Strong proficiency with AI collaborators (Claude Code, Cursor, Copilot) to ship production code.
• Ability to evaluate AI-generated code for security gaps or architectural hallucinations and apply rigorous testing.
• Experience building mature CI/CD pipelines and observability tooling.

Responsibilities

• Own complex features from ideation to production with a focus on platform standards and developer experience.
• Mentor junior engineers and lead incident response for team-owned services.
• Build and optimize CI/CD pipelines and developer tooling to reduce friction in delivery.
• Contribute to the observability roadmap with monitoring, tracing, and alerting for reliability.
• Champion modern engineering best practices and track team productivity metrics.

Skills

Java

Python

Golang

AWS

Kubernetes

CI/CD

Observability

AI tools

AI code collaboration

Incident response

Tools

Claude Code

Cursor

Copilot

GitHub

Job description

Fanatics Inc. is seeking a Senior Platform Engineer to drive core infrastructure and developer experience. You will own features end-to-end, champion platform standards, and mentor mid-level engineers while deeply integrating in the codebase.

We leverage AI collaborators to accelerate production code with high quality, while mitigating risks. You will build scalable cloud-native environments (AWS/Kubernetes), advance CI/CD pipelines, and enhance observability through monitoring, tracing, and