Staff Platform Storage Engineer: PostgreSQL & Kafka Lead

Fanatics; United States; Remote; USD 173,000 - 216,000; Full time

Job summary

Fanatics Betting & Gaming is seeking a Staff Platform Storage Engineer to join our Platform Storage team in the United States. You will own a critical slice of our core platform infrastructure, including production PostgreSQL databases and our Kafka/MSK streaming platform, serving multiple product teams.

As a Staff Engineer, you will lead complex infrastructure initiatives with autonomy, set reliability standards, and mentor engineers while collaborating across regions.

Qualifications

• 8+ years in platform, infrastructure, or database engineering with hands-on PostgreSQL in production at scale.
• Deep experience operating Kafka/MSK in production and CDC pipelines.
• Strong SQL fluency and ability to review schema changes for multiple teams.

Responsibilities

• Own production PostgreSQL/RDS instances, including performance tuning and incident triage.
• Operate and evolve Kafka/MSK streaming platform and CDC pipelines.
• Build self-service tooling to provision database and streaming resources (GitOps).
• Lead platform stability projects and proactive capacity/cost optimization.
• Mentor engineers and participate in on-call rotations.
• Collaborate across regions/time zones and influence with technical clarity.

Skills

Python

PostgreSQL (RDS)

Kafka (MSK)

SQL

Cross-team communication

Infrastructure as Code

Tools

Terraform

GitOps

Job description

Fanatics Betting & Gaming is seeking a Staff Platform Storage Engineer to join our Platform Storage team in the United States. You will own a critical slice of our core platform infrastructure, including production PostgreSQL databases and our Kafka/MSK streaming platform, serving multiple product teams.

As a Staff Engineer, you will lead complex infrastructure initiatives with autonomy, set reliability standards, and mentor engineers while collaborating across regions.