Senior Site Reliability Engineer (SRE)

PrizePicks; United States; Remote; USD 120,000 - 175,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Company-subsidized medical, dental, &视

Job summary

PrizePicks, a fast-growing sports platform, is seeking a Senior Site Reliability Engineer to ensure reliability, scalability, and performance of our infrastructure as we scale and expand.

You will design and operate production systems, lead incident responses, and drive observability, with mentoring responsibilities for other engineers. Ideal candidates have 5+ years in reliability-focused roles and strong cloud, IaC, Kubernetes, and monitoring experience.

Qualifications

• 5+ years in reliability-focused engineering within a fast-growing enterprise.
• Strong cloud, IaC, and Kubernetes experience.
• Experience debugging live production issues.
• Familiar with SRE principles, SLOs, and incident management.
• Ability to collaborate across diverse engineering teams.

Responsibilities

• Design, implement, maintain, and monitor reliable production systems at scale.
• Lead incident response, mitigate production issues, and conduct post mortem analysis.
• Proactively monitor performance, analyze system failures, identify bottlenecks, and propose solutions.
• Create and support observability/monitoring tools and vendor integrations.
• Drive the growth of a reliability culture, promoting cross-functional collaboration towards improving system reliability, scalability, resilience, and security.
• Train and mentor other engineers.

Skills

Cloud platforms

IaC

Python

Ruby

Go

Kubernetes

Monitoring tools

Job description

At PrizePicks, we are the fastest-growing sports company in North America, as recognized by Inc. 5000. As the leading platform for Daily Fantasy Sports, we cover a diverse range of sports leagues, including the NFL, NBA, and Esports titles like League of Legends and Counter-Strike. Our team of over 550 employees thrives in an inclusive culture that values individuals from diverse backgrounds, regardless of their level of sports fandom. Ready to reimagine the DFS industry together?

We are seeking a highly skilled and experienced Senior Site Reliability Engineer to join our team. We are passionate about delivering cutting-edge solutions and pushing the boundaries of what’s possible. As a Senior Site Reliability Engineer, you’ll play a pivotal role in ensuring the reliability, scalability, and performance of our infrastructure as we continue to scale and expand our operations.

What you’ll do:

• Design, implement, maintain, and monitor reliable production systems at scale.
• Lead incident response, mitigate production issues, and conduct post mortem analysis.
• Proactively monitor performance, analyze system failures, identify bottlenecks , and propose solutions.
• Create and support observability/monitoring tools and vendor integrations.
• Drive the growth of a reliability culture, promoting cross-functional collaboration towards improving system reliability, scalability, resilience, and security.
• Train and mentor other engineers.

What you have:

• 5+ years of experience as a reliability-focused engineer in a fast-paced, rapidly growing, enterprise environment.

  • Deep understanding of tooling and application development in these areas:

    • Cloud computing such as AWS, Azure, and/or GCP.
    • Infrastructure as code tools such as terraform or crossplane.
    • Developing applications in languages such as python, ruby, or go.
    • Deploying and supporting applications in Kubernetes at scale.
    • Implementing monitoring in tools like grafana, new relic, or datadog.

  • Experience debugging live, critical production issues.

  • Familiarity with reliability principles, such as resilient systems, application and supply chain security, and SLO governance.

  • Ability to work cross-functionally with diverse engineering teams.

Where you’ll live:

• While we prefer candidates based in Atlanta, we are open to qualified applicants from anywhere in the U.S. and are willing to consider remote candidates. #LI-Remote

Working at PrizePicks:

The typical salary range for this position is $120,000 to $175,000. At PrizePicks, we consider your role, level, and where you’ll be working when determining our salary ranges. The compensation info you see on our job postings gives you an idea of the starting pay range for the position. Your actual pay within that range will depend on your specific work location, as well as your skills, experience, and education. Your

recruiter will be happy to chat more about the specific pay range for your location and how we arrived at it during the hiring process.

This application period will remain open for 30 days. We’re committed to finding the best candidate, so this date may be adjusted, and any changes will be reflected in this posting.

Date Posted: 8/4/26

Reposted: 9/4/26

Benefits you’ll receive:

In addition to your great compensation package, full-time employees will be eligible for the following perks:

• Company-subsidized medical, dental, & vision plans
• 401(k) plan with company match
• Annual bonus
• Flexible PTO to encourage a healthy work/life balance (2 weeks STRONGLY encouraged!)
• Generous paid leave programs, including 16-week paid parental leave and disability benefits
• Workplace flexibility and modern work schedules focused on getting the job done, not hours clocked
• Company-wide in-person events and team outings
• Lifestyle enhancement program
• Company equipment provided (Windows & Mac options)
• Annual performance reviews with opportunities for growth and career development

You must be authorized to work for any employer in the U.S. We are unable to sponsor or take over sponsorship of an employment Visa at this time.

PrizePicks is an Equal Opportunity Employer. All applicants will be considered for employment without attention to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, veteran or disability status.