Staff Platform Engineer

Staff Platform Engineer

Overview

As Fanatics Betting & Gaming (FBG) accelerates Fanatics' mission to build the ultimate digital sports platform, the Staff Platform Engineer role is foundational to empowering our software engineering teams. Joining our OddsFactory division, you'll play a critical role in enhancing the productivity, reliability, security and scalability of our engineering practices.

OddsFactory powers in-play features at massive scale (billions of simulations/month). Today we run Windows services on Service Fabric in Azure; we’re accelerating Kubernetes + GitOps (Argo CD) and exploring dual-cloud opportunities. As a Staff Platform Engineer, you’ll boost developer productivity through platform reliability, security, and scale.

Embrace this opportunity to shape the backbone of Fanatics Betting & Gaming’s cutting-edge risk & trading platform, driving excellence in software delivery and operational efficiency while revolutionizing fan engagement.

You Will:

• Own core platform architecture across compute, networking, identity, and guardrails - delivered as code (Terraform/Terragrunt).
• Architect, build, and maintain highly available and scalable platform infrastructure to support the OddsFactory engineering teams.
• Drive secure-by-default and Zero Trust (least privilege, workload identity/OIDC, policy-as-code, supply-chain hardening).
• Design and implement robust CI/CD pipelines, automation tools, and developer tooling to streamline deployments, improve code quality, and enhance team productivity.
• Lead initiatives to enhance platform security, implementing best practices to ensure compliance and safeguard the integrity of our systems.
• Champion infrastructure as code (IaC) practices, automating provisioning, configuration, and management of cloud-based environments.
• Foster a culture of metrics driven operational excellence, sharing knowledge, mentoring engineers, and promoting best practices across teams.
• Proactively identify, troubleshoot, and resolve infrastructure, performance, and scalability issues, ensuring system reliability and optimal performance.
• 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.

Required Qualifications

• 7+ years of proven experience in platform engineering, DevOps, or related infrastructure roles.
• Strong software engineering background - you write clean code and have experience engineering solutions to complex problem statements
• Strong technical expertise in cloud-native environments (Azure preferred), infrastructure automation, and container orchestration (Service Fabric or Kubernetes).
• Demonstrated proficiency in Infrastructure as Code systems such as Terraform, Azure Resource Manager, or CloudFormation.
• Proficiency with programming and scripting languages (.NET & PowerShell preferred; familiarity with Go or Python is a bonus).
• Experience with observability tooling, chaos testing, and incident management.
• 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 Qualifications

• Resilience & Continuity: Multi‑AZ/region architectures, automated failover; defined RTO/RPO with regular DR/chaos exercises and recovery runbooks.
• Traffic & Policy Plane: Service mesh (mTLS by default, traffic policy, canary/blue‑green, traffic splitting)
• Packaging & Delivery: Helm and/or kustomize; Argo CD progressive delivery; multi‑cluster promotion; multi‑tenant GitOps controllers and environment templating.
• Secrets & Identity: External Secrets patterns; Azure Key Vault/AWS KMS; workload identity/OIDC, least privilege, and policy‑as‑code (e.g., OPA/Gatekeeper, Kyverno).
• Also a plus: Cloudflare integrations • Azure • AWS • Kubernetes • Kafka • High Availability
• 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.

Ready to build the future of sports betting? If you possess some of these skills but not all of them, we still encourage you to apply!Please note that visa sponsorship is not available for this position. We are open to fully remote candidates based in Ireland (you need to be in Ireland to apply), but we strongly encourage those who can join us on campus two days per week. Remote employee may also be eligible for a home office setup stipend.