Senior Platform Engineer — Cloud & Developer Platform

Fanatics; New York (NY); On-site; USD 147,000 - 184,000; Full time

Job summary

Fanatics Betting & Gaming is seeking a Senior Platform Engineer to join our Platform Engineering team. You will work across cloud infrastructure, Kubernetes platforms, CI/CD systems, and internal developer tooling to build, enhance, and support our developer platform.

You will help define standards, improve reliability and scalability, and mentor engineers while collaborating with Product Engineering, Security, and Infrastructure IT.

Qualifications

• 5-7 years of experience in platform, infrastructure, DevOps, or software engineering.
• Proficiency with Python and Java. Familiarity with Kotlin, Go is a plus.
• Deep Kubernetes and container orchestration knowledge.
• Proven CI/CD and GitOps experience.
• Infrastructure as Code expertise (Terraform).
• Strong AWS and cloud-native experience.
• Experience operating distributed, high-availability systems.
• Strong ownership mindset and ability to deliver defined projects independently.
• Clear communication and strong collaboration skills.

Responsibilities

• Own and deliver medium-to-large platform projects from implementation through production.
• Build and maintain internal platform services and tooling that improve developer experience and delivery velocity.
• Partner with application teams to unblock delivery and align platform capabilities with developer needs.
• Drive cloud cost efficiency and optimization across our cloud and infrastructure footprint.
• Improve operational excellence through observability, automation, and incident response.
• Help evolve CI/CD pipelines and GitOps-based workflows.
• Mentor junior engineers through code reviews and knowledge sharing.
• Participate in on-call rotations and incident response.

Skills

Python

Java

Kotlin

Go

Kubernetes

CI/CD

GitOps

Terraform

AWS

distributed systems

ownership

communication

Tools

Terraform

AWS

Job description

Fanatics Betting & Gaming is seeking a Senior Platform Engineer to join our Platform Engineering team. You will work across cloud infrastructure, Kubernetes platforms, CI/CD systems, and internal developer tooling to build, enhance, and support our developer platform.

You will help define standards, improve reliability and scalability, and mentor engineers while collaborating with Product Engineering, Security, and Infrastructure IT.