Staff Platform Engineer — Cloud Native Platform Lead

Fanatics Betting & Gaming; New York (NY); On-site; USD 200,000 - 250,000; Full time

Job summary

Fanatics Betting & Gaming is seeking a Staff Platform Engineer to join the Platform team in the United States. You will own and lead initiatives across cloud infrastructure, Kubernetes platforms, CI/CD systems, observability, and internal developer tooling.

As a technical leader, you will guide projects from design through delivery, mentor engineers, and collaborate with cross‑functional teams to raise reliability and performance in cloud-native environments.

Qualifications

• Strong software engineering background with backend and distributed systems experience.
• Deep AWS knowledge and cloud-native architecture experience.
• Proficient in Terraform and automation tooling for infra.
• Hands-on with CI/CD pipelines and developer productivity tooling.
• Experience with Kubernetes in production and observability practices.

Responsibilities

• Lead end-to-end initiatives from architecture to deployment.
• Design and maintain scalable platform services and automation.
• Improve observability with logging, metrics, and tracing.
• Collaborate with teams to boost performance and reliability.
• Participate in incident response and post-incident reviews.
• Mentor engineers and promote engineering craft and ownership.
• Adopt new technologies and approaches for platform challenges.
• Influence technical direction and roadmap with leadership.

Skills

Go or Python

Kubernetes

AWS cloud

Terraform

CI/CD

Observability

Incident management

GitHub Actions

Distributed systems

Tools

CloudFormation

Kafka

Cassandra

Job description

Fanatics Betting & Gaming is seeking a Staff Platform Engineer to join the Platform team in the United States. You will own and lead initiatives across cloud infrastructure, Kubernetes platforms, CI/CD systems, observability, and internal developer tooling.

As a technical leader, you will guide projects from design through delivery, mentor engineers, and collaborate with cross‑functional teams to raise reliability and performance in cloud-native environments.