Staff Platform Engineer - Cloud, Kubernetes & CI/CD

Fanatics; United States; Remote; USD 200,000 - 250,000; Full time

Job summary

Fanatics is seeking a Staff Platform Engineer for the Platform team in the United States. You will lead initiatives across cloud infrastructure, Kubernetes platforms, CI/CD systems, observability, and internal tooling to power Fanatics business.

As a technical leader, you will guide design through delivery, mentor engineers, and partner with teams to raise the bar on reliability and performance in fast-moving, global environments.

Qualifications

• Proven experience leading complex platform initiatives.
• Strong backend and distributed systems background.
• Collaborative and mentoring skills are essential.

Responsibilities

• Lead end-to-end execution of complex initiatives from design to deployment.
• Design and maintain scalable platform services, automation, CI/CD, and infra.
• Contribute to observability through logging, metrics, and alerting.
• Collaborate with teams to improve performance and reliability in cloud-native environments.
• Participate in incident response and post-incident reviews.
• Advocate best practices in infrastructure and software delivery.
• Provide technical guidance and mentorship to engineers.
• Continuously learn and apply new platform engineering approaches.

Skills

Go

Python

Leadership

Tools

Kubernetes

Terraform

CloudFormation

CI/CD pipelines

AWS

Job description

Fanatics is seeking a Staff Platform Engineer for the Platform team in the United States. You will lead initiatives across cloud infrastructure, Kubernetes platforms, CI/CD systems, observability, and internal tooling to power Fanatics business.

As a technical leader, you will guide design through delivery, mentor engineers, and partner with teams to raise the bar on reliability and performance in fast-moving, global environments.