Senior Platform Engineer: Cloud, Kubernetes & DevTools Lead

Fanatics Betting & Gaming; New York (NY); On-site; USD 220,000 - 275,000; Full time

Job summary

Fanatics Betting & Gaming is seeking a Sr Staff Platform Engineer to lead the platform team in the United States. You will own and drive core platform initiatives across cloud infrastructure, Kubernetes, CI/CD, and developer tooling, setting the technical direction for the team.

You will mentor engineers, collaborate across teams to improve reliability, and contribute to operational excellence in a fast-moving environment.

Qualifications

• Proven experience leading cross-team, multi-quarter initiatives.
• Strong agile experience with delivering predictable milestones.
• Back-end development and distributed systems expertise.
• Deep knowledge of AWS and cloud-native architectures.
• Experience with Terraform or CloudFormation and automation.
• Hands-on CI/CD pipelines and developer tooling experience.
• Kubernetes in production environments expertise.
• Observability with logging, metrics, tracing.
• Incident management for large-scale systems.
• Proficiency in Go or Python.
• Collaborative with cross-team communication and leadership.

Responsibilities

• Drive design and delivery of core platform capabilities across cloud infra and CI/CD.
• Lead end-to-end execution of multi-quarter features from architecture to deployment.
• Partner with teams to improve reliability, scalability, and performance.
• Contribute to incident response and drive availability improvements.
• Advocate best practices in software delivery and infra management.
• Mentor engineers and foster strong engineering culture.
• Stay current with emerging tech and bring innovative solutions.

Skills

Kubernetes

AWS

Go

Python

Terraform

CloudFormation

CI/CD

Observability

Incident management

Automation

Distributed systems

Tools

Kubernetes

AWS

Terraform

CloudFormation

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Job description

Fanatics Betting & Gaming is seeking a Sr Staff Platform Engineer to lead the platform team in the United States. You will own and drive core platform initiatives across cloud infrastructure, Kubernetes, CI/CD, and developer tooling, setting the technical direction for the team.

You will mentor engineers, collaborate across teams to improve reliability, and contribute to operational excellence in a fast-moving environment.