Staff Platform Engineer - Core

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

Job summary

The role focuses on leading complex platform engineering initiatives to deploy and operate core services in a cloud-first environment. You will guide architecture, drive reliability, improve developer experience, and mentor engineers across teams.

Responsibilities include designing scalable platform services, automation of infrastructure and CI/CD, enhancing observability and incident response, and collaborating with cross-functional teams to improve cloud-native performance and reliability.

Qualifications

• Track record of leading complex technical initiatives and influencing team direction.

Responsibilities

• Lead platform projects from architecture and design through implementation, deployment and ongoing improvement.
• Design and maintain scalable platform services, infrastructure automation and CI/CD systems.
• Improve logging, metrics, tracing and alerting to strengthen service visibility and incident response.
• Partner with application and platform teams to improve cloud-native performance, scalability and reliability.
• Take part in incident response and post-incident reviews, then drive reliability improvements.
• Set engineering practices for infrastructure and software delivery, and provide technical guidance and mentorship.
• Break complex work into achievable milestones, coordinate delivery across teams and contribute to roadmap planning.

Skills

Leadership

Backend development

Distributed systems

AWS

Kubernetes

Terraform

CloudFormation

CI/CD

Observability

Incident management

Go

Python

Communication across teams

Tools

Kubernetes

Terraform

CloudFormation

Job description

Role overview

Lead complex platform engineering initiatives that support the deployment and operation of core services. The role spans cloud infrastructure, Kubernetes, delivery pipelines, observability and internal developer tools. As a senior technical leader, you’ll guide architecture and execution, improve reliability and developer experience, and mentor engineers across teams.

Responsibilities

• Lead platform projects from architecture and design through implementation, deployment and ongoing improvement.
• Design and maintain scalable platform services, infrastructure automation and CI/CD systems.
• Improve logging, metrics, tracing and alerting to strengthen service visibility and incident response.
• Partner with application and platform teams to improve cloud-native performance, scalability and reliability.
• Take part in incident response and post-incident reviews, then drive reliability improvements.
• Set engineering practices for infrastructure and software delivery, and provide technical guidance and mentorship.
• Break complex work into achievable milestones, coordinate delivery across teams and contribute to roadmap planning.

Requirements

• Track record of leading complex technical initiatives and influencing team direction.
• Strong software engineering background in backend development and distributed systems.
• Deep knowledge of AWS and cloud-native architectures.
• Hands-on expertise with Kubernetes in production, infrastructure as code such as Terraform or CloudFormation, and CI/CD automation.
• Experience with observability and operating large-scale services, including incident management.
• Proficiency in Go or Python, familiarity with AI-assisted development, and ability to communicate technical decisions across teams.

Nice to have

• Experience scaling services globally, managing cloud costs, or working in regulated or high-availability environments.
• Familiarity with Java or Kotlin, GitHub Actions, Kafka or Cassandra.

Benefits and work setup

• The role is based in the United States. Some interview or onboarding activities may include in-person attendance, depending on the role and location.
• Published salary range: $200,000–$250,000 USD; the listing notes that compensation varies by location.