Staff Platform Engineer - Remote, AI-Driven Infra Leader

Fanatics Collectibles; United States; Remote; USD 170,000 - 250,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Home office stipend

Remote-friendly role

Job summary

Fanatics Collectibles is seeking a Staff Platform Engineer to drive technical direction, design durable platform abstractions, and partner with senior engineers, managers, and product leadership to enable rapid innovation with stability and security. The role blends hands-on engineering with systems thinking and cross-team influence.

You will lead cross-team initiatives, establish platform standards, and mentor engineers while hands-on building core platform capabilities, including AI-assisted

Qualifications

• 8+ years in platform engineering or DevOps architecture.
• Proficient with AI-assisted development tools to ship production code.
• Ability to validate AI tool usage and avoid over-abstraction or security gaps.
• Expertise in IaC: Terraform, Pulumi, CloudFormation.
• Strong Java and Python skills; Golang a plus; full-stack mindset.
• Proven in building mature CI/CD pipelines and observability frameworks.
• Self-directed leader with strong cross-team collaboration.
• Excellent communication with engineering, product and data teams.

Responsibilities

• Define enterprise-wide standards for AI integration and development velocity.
• Identify AI-generated code pitfalls and measure business impact via velocity metrics.
• Design and evolve highly available, scalable infrastructure across teams.
• Architect CI/CD ecosystems and developer tooling to reduce delivery friction.
• Ensure platform security and regulatory compliance across systems.
• Lead observability roadmap with advanced monitoring and tracing.
• Bridge engineering, product and quantitative teams to translate requirements.
• Mentor engineers and promote transformative technologies and learning.

Skills

Platform engineering

DevOps

AI tools

IaC tools

Java

Python

CI/CD

Observability

Tools

Terraform

Pulumi

CloudFormation

Job description

Fanatics Collectibles is seeking a Staff Platform Engineer to drive technical direction, design durable platform abstractions, and partner with senior engineers, managers, and product leadership to enable rapid innovation with stability and security. The role blends hands-on engineering with systems thinking and cross-team influence.

You will lead cross-team initiatives, establish platform standards, and mentor engineers while hands-on building core platform capabilities, including AI-assisted