Senior Platform Engineer - Cloud, CI/CD & Kubernetes

Fanatics Inc.; New York (NY); On-site; USD 170,000 - 213,000; Full time

Job summary

Fanatics Inc. is seeking a Senior Platform Engineer to join the Platform team in the United States. You will help deliver platform projects, own operational health, and mentor engineers across cloud infrastructure, Kubernetes platforms, CI/CD systems, observability, and internal tooling.

You will design scalable services, improve developer tooling, and champion best practices in infrastructure and software delivery to support Fanatics’ tech ecosystem.

Qualifications

• Solid software engineering background with backend systems and distributed architectures.
• Strong knowledge of AWS cloud platform and cloud-native architectures.
• Hands-on experience with Terraform or CloudFormation for Infrastructure as Code.
• Experience building and maintaining CI/CD pipelines and automation tooling.
• Experience running workloads in Kubernetes and containerized production environments.
• Familiar with observability practices: logging, metrics, alerting.

Responsibilities

• Design, implement, and maintain scalable platform services and infrastructure.
• Build and improve developer tooling, automation, and CI/CD workflows.
• Contribute to observability initiatives to improve reliability and incident response.
• Develop and maintain Infrastructure as Code with Terraform/CloudFormation.
• Design and optimize CI/CD pipelines for faster deployments.
• Collaborate with cross-functional teams to improve performance and reliability.
• Provide guidance and mentorship to engineers.

Skills

Software engineering

AWS cloud

CI/CD pipelines

Kubernetes

Observability

Incident management

Go or Python

GitHub Actions

AI-assisted tools

Tools

Terraform

CloudFormation

Kubernetes

GitHub Actions

Job description

Fanatics Inc. is seeking a Senior Platform Engineer to join the Platform team in the United States. You will help deliver platform projects, own operational health, and mentor engineers across cloud infrastructure, Kubernetes platforms, CI/CD systems, observability, and internal tooling.

You will design scalable services, improve developer tooling, and champion best practices in infrastructure and software delivery to support Fanatics’ tech ecosystem.