Staff Platform Engineer: Cloud, Kubernetes & CI/CD Lead

Fanatics Betting & Gaming; United States; On-site; USD 180,000 - 280,000; Full time

Job summary

Fanatics Betting & Gaming is seeking a Staff Platform Engineer in the United States to lead platform initiatives powering core services. You will own architecture, design scalable platform services, and mentor engineers while ensuring reliability and observability across cloud-native environments.

You will collaborate across teams on deployment pipelines, automation, and internal tooling, guiding best practices and advancing the developer experience in a fast-moving environment.

Qualifications

• Proven experience leading complex platform initiatives.
• Strong background in backend and distributed systems.
• Deep knowledge of AWS and cloud-native architectures.

Responsibilities

• Lead end-to-end initiatives from architecture to deployment.
• Design and maintain scalable platform services and automation.
• Improve observability through logging, metrics, and tracing.
• Collaborate with teams to improve performance and reliability in cloud-native environments.
• Participate in incident response and post-incident reviews.
• Mentor engineers and promote engineering best practices.
• Drive adoption of infrastructure-as-code and automation.
• Stay updated with new platform technologies and approaches.

Skills

Team leadership

Agile practices

Backend development

Kubernetes

AWS cloud

Terraform

CI/CD

Observability

Go or Python

Platform security

Tools

Terraform

CloudFormation

Kubernetes

GitHub Actions

Kafka

Cassandra

Docker

Job description

Fanatics Betting & Gaming is seeking a Staff Platform Engineer in the United States to lead platform initiatives powering core services. You will own architecture, design scalable platform services, and mentor engineers while ensuring reliability and observability across cloud-native environments.

You will collaborate across teams on deployment pipelines, automation, and internal tooling, guiding best practices and advancing the developer experience in a fast-moving environment.