Senior Platform Engineer - Core

The role

You will design and deliver platform projects, build reliable systems, and own the operational health of services. You will work on cloud infrastructure, Kubernetes platforms, CI/CD systems, observability, and internal developer tooling.

What you will do

• Design, implement, and maintain scalable platform services and infrastructure.
• Build and improve developer tooling, automation, and CI/CD workflows.
• Contribute to observability initiatives including logging, metrics, and alerting.
• Develop and maintain Infrastructure as Code solutions using Terraform.
• Design, implement, and optimize CI/CD pipelines.
• Partner with application and platform teams to improve performance and reliability.
• 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 to platform engineering challenges.

Required qualifications

• Strong software engineering background with experience in backend systems and distributed architectures.
• Solid understanding of the AWS cloud platform and cloud-native architectures.
• Hands-on experience with Infrastructure as Code tools such as Terraform or CloudFormation.
• Experience building and maintaining CI/CD pipelines and automation tooling.
• 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.
• Pragmatic, outcome-oriented mindset.
• Comfortable operating in a fast-paced, evolving environment.

Nice to have

• Proficiency in Go or Python
• Familiarity with AI-assisted development tools
• Experience scaling services globally
• FinOps or cloud cost management experience
• Regulated or high-availability environment experience
• Experience with Java or Kotlin
• Familiarity with GitHub Actions
• Experience with Kafka and Cassandra

About the company

Fanatics is building a leading global digital sports platform. The company offers products and services across Fanatics Commerce, Fanatics Collectibles, and Fanatics Betting & Gaming.