Underdog · 1 day ago
Senior Infrastructure Engineer - Core Platform
Underdog is a rapidly growing sports company focused on building innovative products for sports fans. The Senior Infrastructure Engineer will design and maintain cloud infrastructure systems, enhance developer productivity, and ensure the performance and reliability of the application infrastructure.
eSportsFantasy SportsGaming
Responsibilities
As a Senior Infrastructure Engineer on the Infrastructure Engineering team, you’ll be building infrastructure solutions to accelerate the development of Underdog’s cloud infrastructure and deployment workflows
Design, build, and maintain key cloud infrastructure systems including distributed storage, distributed compute, database, caching and delivery network infrastructure while ensuring scalability, reliability, and security
Accelerate developer productivity by building best in class tooling, infrastructure, and automation workflows
Collaborate with engineers to understand core system requirements and translate them into scalable technical solutions
Implement and maintain monitoring, alerting, and observability mechanisms to ensure the health and performance of Underdog’s application infrastructure
Research and keep up to date on emerging technologies and trends and focus on iteratively implementing them into Underdog’s systems
Qualification
Required
5+ years experience building distributed computing and distributed data storage infrastructure on a cloud environment (e.g. AWS, GCP, Azure)
5+ years experience with containerization and orchestration technologies such as Kubernetes, ECS, or Docker
Strong familiarity containerization, SQL Database and monitoring/observability platforms
Experience working with networking in private cloud environments and enabling cross account VPC peering functionality between multiple cloud accounts
Expert with DevOps practices such as CI/CD pipelines, and infrastructure-as-code tools (e.g. Terraform, CDK, CloudFormation)
Experience being on an on-call rotation
Proficiency with Ruby/Rails, Typescript, Python, or other OOP languages (at least 2)
Preferred
Strong interest in sports
Prior experience in the sports betting industry
Experience with managing load spike traffic patterns
Benefits
Unlimited PTO (we're extremely flexible with the exception of the first few weeks before & into the NFL season)
16 weeks of fully paid parental leave
$500 home office allowance
A connected virtual first culture with a highly engaged distributed workforce
5% 401k match
FSA
Company paid health, dental, vision plan options for employees and dependents
Company
Underdog
We’re the fastest-growing sports gaming company ever. Our mission is to build innovative games and products for American sports fans.
H1B Sponsorship
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2024 (1)
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Funding
Current Stage
Growth StageTotal Funding
$115MKey Investors
Spark CapitalBlackRockKevin Carter
2025-03-26Series C· $70M
2022-07-26Series B· $35M
2021-05-03Series A· $10M
Recent News
Mergers & Acquisitions
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