Senior Platform Engineer — Cloud Native & CI/CD

Fanatics; United States; Remote; USD 170,000 - 213,000; Full time

Job summary

Fanatics is seeking a Senior Platform Engineer to join the Platform team in the United States. You will enable engineering teams with scalable platform services, tooling, and cloud-native infrastructure that power the Fanatics business.

You will drive automation, observability, and reliability, mentoring peers and delivering high-impact platform projects. You will design and operate IaC solutions, build CI/CD pipelines, and collaborate across teams to improve performance and resilience in

Qualifications

• Proven backend software engineering with distributed systems experience.
• Strong knowledge of AWS and cloud-native architectures.
• Hands-on experience with Infra-as-Code (Terraform or CloudFormation).
• Experience building and maintaining CI/CD pipelines and automation tooling.
• Experience running workloads in Kubernetes and containerized environments.
• Familiarity with observability tools for logging, metrics, and alerts.
• Incident management experience and post-incident analysis.
• Proficiency in Go or Python; familiarity with AI-assisted tools is a plus.
• Strong collaboration and communication across teams.

Responsibilities

• Design, implement, and maintain scalable platform services and infrastructure.
• Build and improve developer tooling, automation, and CI/CD workflows.
• Contribute to observability initiatives and incident response.
• Develop and maintain IaC solutions to ensure secure environments.
• Design and optimize CI/CD pipelines for speed and reliability.
• Partner with teams to enhance performance and reliability in cloud-native setups.
• Participate in incident reviews and drive reliability improvements.
• Mentor engineers and promote best practices in platform engineering.

Skills

AWS

Go

Python

CI/CD

Observability

Incident response

Kubernetes

Tools

Terraform

CloudFormation

GitHub Actions

Kafka

Cassandra

Job description

Fanatics is seeking a Senior Platform Engineer to join the Platform team in the United States. You will enable engineering teams with scalable platform services, tooling, and cloud-native infrastructure that power the Fanatics business.

You will drive automation, observability, and reliability, mentoring peers and delivering high-impact platform projects. You will design and operate IaC solutions, build CI/CD pipelines, and collaborate across teams to improve performance and resilience in