Fanatics · 2 days ago
Senior Platform Engineer
Fanatics is a company focused on delivering a reliable technology ecosystem, and they are seeking a Senior Platform Engineer to contribute to the design and delivery of their platform infrastructure. The role involves collaborating with various teams to enhance developer experience and system reliability while implementing best practices in platform engineering.
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Responsibilities
Design, implement, and maintain scalable platform services and infrastructure supporting Fanatics’ technology ecosystem
Build and improve developer tooling, automation, and CI/CD workflows to streamline software delivery
Contribute to observability initiatives, including logging, metrics, and alerting, to improve system reliability and incident response
Develop and maintain Infrastructure as Code solutions using Terraform to ensure consistent and secure environments
Design, implement, and optimize CI/CD pipelines to improve deployment speed and reliability
Partner with application and platform teams to improve performance, scalability, and reliability in cloud-native environments
Participate in incident response, post-incident reviews, and reliability improvements
Advocate for best practices in infrastructure, software delivery, and operational excellence
Provide technical guidance and mentorship to other engineers
Continuously learn and apply new technologies and approaches to platform engineering challenges
Qualification
Required
Strong software engineering background with experience in backend systems and distributed architectures
Solid experience with cloud platforms, with AWS experience preferred
Hands-on experience with Infrastructure as Code tools such as Terraform or CloudFormation
Experience building and maintaining CI/CD pipelines and automation tooling; familiarity with GitHub Actions is a plus
Experience running workloads in Kubernetes and containerized production environments
Working knowledge of observability tools and practices, including logging, metrics, and alerting
Experience participating in incident management and operational support for production systems
Strong collaboration and communication skills, with the ability to work effectively across teams
Pragmatic, outcome-oriented mindset focused on delivering reliable platform solutions
Comfortable operating in a fast-paced, evolving environment
Preferred
Proficiency in Go or Python is preferred; experience with Java or Kotlin is a plus
Benefits
Home office setup stipend
Company
Fanatics
Fanatics is a sports merchandise retailer that manufactures fan gear and jerseys across retail channels. It is a sub-organization of Kynetic.
H1B Sponsorship
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Trends of Total Sponsorships
2021 (2)
Funding
Current Stage
Late StageTotal Funding
$4.9BKey Investors
Clearlake Capital GroupNational Football LeagueAlameda Research
2022-12-06Private Equity· $700M
2022-03-02Private Equity· $1.5B
2022-01-01Series Unknown· $10M
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