Senior Platform Engineer: Cloud & Kubernetes Lead

Fanatics; United States; Remote; USD 220,000 - 275,000; Full time

Job summary

Fanatics is seeking a Sr Staff Platform Engineer to join its Platform team in the United States. You will own and lead initiatives across cloud infrastructure, Kubernetes platforms, CI/CD, observability, and internal tooling to empower engineering teams.

You will work with autonomy, guiding architecture and delivery of critical services powering the Fanatics business, while mentoring engineers and shaping the technical direction of the platform.

Qualifications

• Proven experience leading and delivering complex cross-team initiatives.
• Track record breaking down complex work into milestones and delivering with agile practices.
• Strong software engineering background with backend development and distributed systems.
• Deep understanding of AWS cloud platform and cloud-native architectures.
• Proficiency in Infrastructure as Code (Terraform, CloudFormation) and automation.
• Hands-on experience with CI/CD pipelines and developer tooling.
• Deep expertise with Kubernetes and container orchestration in production.
• Strong knowledge of observability and improving system reliability.
• Experience with incident management for large-scale systems.
• Proficiency in Go or Python.
• Collaborative communication across teams and ability to influence engineering practices.

Responsibilities

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

Skills

Distributed systems

Agile methodologies

Go or Python

Observability concepts

Communication across teams

Tools

Kubernetes

AWS

Terraform

CloudFormation

CI/CD pipelines

GitHub Actions

Kafka

Cassandra

Job description

Fanatics is seeking a Sr Staff Platform Engineer to join its Platform team in the United States. You will own and lead initiatives across cloud infrastructure, Kubernetes platforms, CI/CD, observability, and internal tooling to empower engineering teams.

You will work with autonomy, guiding architecture and delivery of critical services powering the Fanatics business, while mentoring engineers and shaping the technical direction of the platform.