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As Fanatics Betting & Gaming propels Fanatics' mission to create the ultimate digital sports platform, the Staff Platform Engineer role stands at the forefront of this transformative journey - this role empowers our software engineering teams to deliver better than they ever have. Joining the OddsFactory Platform Team, you will work on fuelling real-time betting at massive scale; billions of simulations every day, while driving improvements in productivity, reliability and scalability across our platform.
Today, our .NET services run on Azure Service Fabric, and we are now tapping into Kubernetes to unlock our growth. This role will help lead that transition, shaping our platform foundations, standards and technologies as we move into the new chapter of FBG.
We’re looking for a seasoned backend engineer who operates confidently across infrastructure, automation, security, and reliability to drive platform excellence. If you’re a builder who cares deeply about creating robust, scalable platforms that empower every engineering team, you’ll have the opportunity to make a meaningful impact. Ideal candidates have built platform capabilities consumed by many teams, and not just operated them.
The work spans a wide range of high-impact challenges; from shaping multi-cloud architecture and networking strategies to improving CI/CD, developer workflows, and productivity tooling. We’re seeking engineers who are energized by both deep system-level problems and the platform tooling that accelerates developer velocity. You’ll help define the platform foundation that powers Fanatics Betting & Gaming’s real-time trading technologies.
You Will:
- Own core platform architecture across compute, networking, identity, and guardrails; delivered as code using Terraform.
- Architect, build, and maintain highly available, scalable cloud infrastructure that powers all OddsFactory engineering teams.
- Drive secure-by-default and Zero Trust principles across the platform (least privilege, workload identity/OIDC, policy-as-code, supply-chain hardening).
- Design and build CI/CD pipelines and developer tooling that streamline builds, deployments, and iteration speed.
- Enhance platform security and compliance through automation, best practices, and proactive risk reduction.
- Champion Infrastructure as Code (IaC) and automate the provisioning, configuration, and lifecycle of cloud environments.
- Foster a metrics-driven culture of operational excellence; mentoring engineers, sharing best practices, and improving documentation.
- Proactively identify, troubleshoot, and resolve infrastructure, performance, and scalability issues, ensuring system reliability and optimal performance as the platform grows.
- Stay current on emerging cloud, platform, and DevOps technologies; advocate for the right tools at the right time.
- Participate in an on-call rotation to ensure platform stability for mission-critical trading systems.
- Occasionally travel for essential offsite meetings, special events, or collaborative team sessions.
Required Qualifications
- 5+ years of proven experience in platform engineering, DevOps, or related modern cloud infrastructure roles.
- 3-5+ Years of experience in software engineering - you write clean code and have experience engineering solutions to complex problem statements.
- Deep experience cloud-native infrastructure (Azure preferred).
- Experience building application platforms that leverage Service Fabric and/or Kubernetes.
- Experience levering Terraform to build and maintain infrastructure at scale.
- Programming/scripting experience (.NET, PowerShell preferred; Go and Python a plus).
- Experience with observability platforms (Datadog preferred) and incident response.
- Strong analytical and problem-solving skills; thrives in close collaboration with engineers and cross-functional partners.
- Highly outcome-oriented, data-driven, and capable of balancing quality with productivity.
- Excellent communication skills and experience working with distributed teams.
Preferred Qualifications
- Experience designing multi-AZ/region architectures and automated failover patterns.
- Defined and tested RTO/RPO expectations using DR drills, chaos engineering, and recovery runbooks.
- Hands-on experience with service mesh technologies (mTLS, traffic shaping, canary/blue-green patterns).
- Familiarity with advanced traffic routing, policy enforcement, and cross-cluster communication.
- Experience with modern packaging and deployment tooling (Helm, Kustomize).
- Exposure to GitOps workflows and environment templating (Argo CD a plus).
- Familiarity with workload identity (OIDC), least-privilege design, and Zero Trust concepts.
- Hands on experience implementing secret management patterns (External Secrets, Azure Key Vault, AWS KMS).
- Experience applying policy-as-code (OPA, Gatekeeper, Kyverno) to enforce governance at scale.
- Exposure to high-scale, low-latency, or event-driven systems.
- Familiarity or previous experience within the sports betting industry or strong interest in sports.
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!
The expected salary range for this role is based on job-related knowledge, skills, and experience. This role is eligible for the Fanatics Betting and Gaming annual bonus program and an equity award. *Salary range is listed in USD; actual salary will vary based on location. *Salary Range: $152,000 - $250,000 per year (actual salary will be determined in part by a successful candidate’s geographic location). In addition to base salary, bonus, and equity, full-time employees are eligible for Medical, Dental, Vision, 401K, paid time off, and other benefits like GymPass, Pet Insurance, Family Care Benefits, and more. Remote employee may also be eligible for a home office setup stipend. Please note that visa sponsorship is not available for this position.
This is a remote position.
Depending on the role, your interview and onboarding experience may include in-person components, such as onsite interviews or Launching into Better: LIVE—a multi-day cultural immersion in New York City for full-time, non-seasonal hires. These sessions are designed to build connection and bring our culture to life, though specific travel and participation requirements will be confirmed based on your role and location. Your recruiter will provide clear guidance at each stage of the process.
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