Staff Platform Engineer — Scalable APIs & Observability

PENN Interactive; United States; Remote; USD 170,000 - 220,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Competitive compensation package

Fun work environment

Education reimbursement

Mentoring opportunities

Job summary

PENN Interactive is hiring a Staff Engineer to lead the design and architecture of new platform capabilities. In this role, you will drive integrations, support feature development, and mentor engineers.

Candidates should have 7+ years in software engineering, strong experience with PostgreSQL, and familiarity with high-throughput domains like gaming. The position offers a competitive salary range of $170,000 - $220,000 USD.

Qualifications

• 7+ years in a software engineering role.
• Experience with high-throughput or real-time domains such as sports betting or gaming.
• Familiarity with caching strategies.

Responsibilities

• Lead the design, architecture, and delivery of new platform capabilities.
• Build, support, and maintain services for Federated GraphQL API.
• Mentor engineers across the organization.

Skills

Software engineering

Distributed systems

Relational databases

API design

Kubernetes

Tools

PostgreSQL

ExUnit

RSpec

Jest

pytest

Job description

PENN Interactive is hiring a Staff Engineer to lead the design and architecture of new platform capabilities. In this role, you will drive integrations, support feature development, and mentor engineers.

Candidates should have 7+ years in software engineering, strong experience with PostgreSQL, and familiarity with high-throughput domains like gaming. The position offers a competitive salary range of $170,000 - $220,000 USD.