About the Role
Our Infrastructure team builds internal tools and services to enhance product availability and engineering productivity. As an infrastructure engineer, you will collaborate with multiple engineering teams to develop and improve internal tools and services, implement new infrastructure using Terraform, and define scaling, alerting, and monitoring strategies. Join us to help build the best sports media app in the world.
Responsibilities
- Develop new features, optimizing for scalability and performance.
- Contribute to the scrum process, including sprint planning, review, retrospectives, and daily standups.
- Understand technical requirements and collaborate with engineers to ensure end results meet expectations.
- Fix live bugs and triage issues to identify root causes, addressing both immediate fixes and underlying problems.
- Validate work quality through manual and automated testing, owning code throughout the development lifecycle.
Requirements
- 2+ years of relevant engineering experience.
- Knowledge of Terraform and CI/CD tools.
- Familiarity with AWS products including Lambda, Elastic Beanstalk, ECS, Cloudfront, S3, and IAM.
- Experience working with high availability websites.
- Experience with Cloud CDN tools like Fastly and Cloudflare.
Work Type
- full-time
Experience Level
- 2+ years
Benefits
- Competitive UK benefits packages.
- Unique perks and benefits based on country of residence.
About the Company
- Powered by one of the largest global newsrooms in sports media, The Athletic provides comprehensive stories about sports, teams, and athletes.
- The Athletic's newsroom of 450+ staff delivers in-depth coverage of hundreds of professional and college teams across North America, and English Premier League and Championship football clubs.
Equal Opportunity
- The Athletic Media Company is an equal opportunity employer and enthusiastically encourages people from all backgrounds and experiences to apply.
- The Athletic will consider all applicants without regard to race, religion, color, national origin, ancestry, physical and/or mental disability, medical condition, genetic information, marital status, sex, gender, gender identity, gender expression, transgender status, age, sexual orientation, military or veteran status, or any other protected characteristic under applicable law.
