About the Role
Fanatics Betting & Gaming (FBG) is seeking a Senior Platform Engineer to join our Platform Engineering team. This role will focus on building, enhancing, and supporting our developer platform, working across cloud infrastructure, Kubernetes, CI/CD systems, and internal developer tooling. You will collaborate with various teams to improve reliability, scalability, and developer productivity.
Responsibilities
- Own and deliver medium-to-large platform projects from implementation through production.
- Build and maintain internal platform services and tooling that improve developer experience and delivery velocity.
- Partner with application teams to unblock delivery and align platform capabilities with developer needs.
- Drive cloud cost efficiency and optimization across our cloud and infrastructure footprint.
- Improve operational excellence through observability, automation, and incident response.
- Help evolve CI/CD pipelines and GitOps-based workflows.
- Mentor junior engineers through code reviews and knowledge sharing.
- Participate in on-call rotations and incident response.
Requirements
- 5–7 years of experience in platform, infrastructure, DevOps, or software engineering.
- Proficiency with Python and Java.
- Deep Kubernetes and container orchestration knowledge.
- Proven CI/CD and GitOps experience.
- Infrastructure as Code expertise (Terraform).
- Strong AWS and cloud-native experience.
- Experience operating distributed, high-availability systems.
- Strong ownership mindset and ability to deliver defined projects independently.
- Clear communication and strong collaboration skills.
Skills
- Python
- Java
- Kotlin
- Go
- Kubernetes
- CI/CD
- GitOps
- Terraform
- AWS
- Cloud-native
- Observability
- Reliability engineering
Location
- New York
- Denver
- Leeds
- Dublin
Work Type
- Full-time
Experience Level
- Senior
Salary/Compensations
- $146,880—$183,600 USD
Benefits
- In addition to the base and bonus, full-time employment, and more.
About the Company
- Fanatics is building a leading global digital sports platform. We ignite the passions of global sports fans and maximize the presence and reach for our hundreds of sports partners globally by offering products and services across Fanatics Commerce, Fanatics Collectibles, and Fanatics Betting & Gaming, allowing sports fans to Buy, Collect, and Bet.
- Launched in 2021, Fanatics Betting and Gaming is the online and retail sports betting subsidiary of Fanatics, a global digital sports platform.
- Platform Engineering builds and operates the core engineering platform that enables product teams across FBG to ship reliably, safely, and quickly. The team owns foundational AWS infrastructure and ingress, Terraform infrastructure-as-code and change management, GitHub and CI/CD governance, Datadog-based observability, and developer tooling — operating with a product-first mindset that treats developers as customers.
