Staff Platform Storage Engineer: PostgreSQL & Kafka

Fanatics; New York (NY); On-site; USD 129,600 - 216,000; Full time

Job summary

Fanatics Betting and Gaming is seeking a Staff Platform Storage Engineer to join our Platform Storage team in the United States. This role owns production PostgreSQL databases and the Kafka/MSK streaming platform, serving as the embedded platform liaison for multiple product teams.

As a Staff Engineer, you will lead complex database and streaming initiatives, set reliability standards, and mentor engineers while handling incident response and capacity planning across teams.

Qualifications

• 8+ years of experience in platform, infrastructure, or database engineering.
• Strong experience operating PostgreSQL (RDS) at scale.
• Strong SQL fluency for diagnosing performance issues and reviewing schema changes.
• Infrastructure as Code with Terraform.
• Experience owning production database reliability across multiple downstream teams.

Responsibilities

• Own database liaison responsibility for a portfolio of production PostgreSQL/RDS instances — query review, schema change approval, performance tuning, and incident triage for the teams built on top of them.
• Operate and evolve our Kafka/MSK streaming platform: topic lifecycle management via GitOps, cluster health across environments, and CDC (Debezium) pipeline reliability.
• Build and maintain self‑service tooling that lets product teams provision database and streaming resources without a manual ticket queue.
• Drive platform stability projects — operator/version upgrades, root‑cause fixes for recurring operational issues, and proactive capacity/cost optimization across the database and streaming fleet.
• Act as the technical escalation point for cross‑team incidents where the root cause traces back to shared data infrastructure (replication lag, connection exhaustion, CPU/throughput issues).
• Represent Platform Storage in cross‑org infrastructure initiatives and standardization efforts.
• Mentor engineers and participate in on‑call rotations.

Skills

PostgreSQL

Kafka

SQL

Terraform

Platform reliability

Kubernetes

MongoDB

DynamoDB

PgBouncer

Cross-team collaboration

Tools

RDS

MSK

Job description

Fanatics Betting and Gaming is seeking a Staff Platform Storage Engineer to join our Platform Storage team in the United States. This role owns production PostgreSQL databases and the Kafka/MSK streaming platform, serving as the embedded platform liaison for multiple product teams.

As a Staff Engineer, you will lead complex database and streaming initiatives, set reliability standards, and mentor engineers while handling incident response and capacity planning across teams.