Fanatics · 3 days ago
Staff Site Reliability Engineer (SRE)
United States
Full-time
Remote
Senior Level, Lead/Staff
$144K/yr - $282K/yr
7+ years expFanatics Betting & Gaming is focused on building a leading digital sports platform, and they are seeking a Staff Site Reliability Engineer (SRE) to enhance their software engineering practices. This role involves leading architecture and delivery for reliability and operational tooling across the trading stack, ensuring high performance and operational excellence during peak sporting moments.
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Responsibilities
Own team architecture for ops & reliability across trading services—designing simple, scalable patterns for health, performance, and resilience (SLOs, error budgets, graceful degradation)
Engineer event readiness for big game days: capacity modeling, load & chaos testing, traffic drills, failover playbooks, and rapid triage pathways
Advance observability (metrics/logs/traces, profiling), unify golden dashboards/alerts, and drive “diagnose in minutes” outcomes
Build self-service operational tooling (runbooks, one-click remediation, circuit breakers, feature flags) that reduce toil and shorten MTTR
Partner deeply with trading & product to model operational risk, set priorities, and convert learnings from incidents into platform standards
Mentor and multiply - lead design reviews, coach engineers across teams, and set exemplary standards in operational excellence
Stay abreast of emerging technologies and industry trends, advocating for adoption of new tools and techniques that align with our platform strategy
Participate in an on-call rotation, ensuring platform stability and providing critical support for operational incidents
Occasionally travel for essential offsite meetings, special events, or collaborative team sessions
Qualification
Required
7+ years of proven experience in software engineering roles shipping and operating high-scale, real-time systems - ideally .NET services in Azure
Depth in observability, performance engineering, incident response, and resilience patterns; strong debugging across distributed services (Datadog experience preferred)
Hands-on with Azure and core trading platform tech (Service Fabric, kubernetes, Cosmos DB, SQL Server, Event Hubs, Azure Storage, etc..)
Strong software engineering background - you write clean code and have experience engineering solutions to complex problem statements
Excellent influencing, problem-solving, and analytical skills, with demonstrated ability to partner closely with engineering teams
Highly outcome-oriented, data-driven, and capable of balancing quality with productivity
Strong communication skills, able to effectively collaborate across international teams
Positive and flexible attitude, comfortable working in a fast-paced environment and embracing new initiatives
Preferred
Experience building operational toolkits (load/chaos, game-day tooling, remediation bots)
Proficiency with IaC & CI/CD (Terraform/Terragrunt, Azure DevOps pipelines); automation-first mindset
Background in event-driven systems and market/price-sensitive workloads
Familiarity or previous experience within the sports betting industry or strong interest in sports
Experience working with cross-functional teams in fast-paced or start-up environments
Benefits
Medical
Dental
Vision
401K
Paid time off
GymPass
Pet Insurance
Family Care Benefits
And more
Company
Fanatics
Fanatics is a sports merchandise retailer that manufactures fan gear and jerseys across retail channels. It is a sub-organization of Kynetic.
10001+ employees
H1B Sponsorship
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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
Leadership Team
J
Joseph Bozich
Advisor to Chief Executive Officer
Michael Mahan
CEO
Recent News
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