Staff Platform Engineer
Apply NowCompany: Fanatics
Location: New York, NY 10025
Description:
Job Description
Overview
As a Staff Platform Engineer at Fanatics, you will play a key role in shaping and evolving our platform infrastructure. You'll be part of the Platform Engineering team within the Fan Ecosystem organization, working to build reliable, scalable, and developer-friendly systems that power our technology platform. This role reports to the Platform Engineering Manager and involves designing foundational systems, improving developer experience, and ensuring operational excellence at scale.
This is a highly impactful role where you'll work across cloud infrastructure, reliability engineering, and developer tooling, helping to define the future of our platform while maintaining high-quality experiences for our end users.
What You'll Do
What We're Looking For
Why Join Us?
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; ranges will change based on country and state of residence, which are reflected in Geographical Zones defined by Fanatics Betting and Gaming. *Salary Range: $144,000 to $282,000 (Salary range incorporates all of our Geographical Compensation Zones and is subject to change as the Zone associated with the actual Offer is confirmed). In addition to the base, 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, Free Shipt deliveries, and more. We'll also give you $700 to set up your home office! For information about our benefits, please visit https://benefitsatfanatics.com/
About Us
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. Through the Fanatics platform, sports fans can buy licensed fan gear, jerseys, lifestyle and streetwear products, headwear, and hardgoods; collect physical and digital trading cards, sports memorabilia, and other digital assets; and bet as the company builds its Sportsbook and iGaming platform. Fanatics has an established database of over 100 million global sports fans; a global partner network with approximately 900 sports properties, including major national and international professional sports leagues, players associations, teams, colleges, college conferences and retail partners, 2,500 athletes and celebrities, and 200 exclusive athletes; and over 2,000 retail locations, including its Lids retail stores. Our more than 22,000 employees are committed to relentlessly enhancing the fan experience and delighting sports fans globally.
About the Team
We are building a global digital sports platform. Our vision is to serve sports fans around the world across their digital sports journey. Few passions are as strong as those that sports evoke. Sports provides connections, creates a sense of community, spans generations, inspires hope to achieve the impossible, serves as a platform for social change, and teaches the value of teamwork. We ignite these passions for global sports fans by offering an integrated, personalized, and immersive fan experience across our businesses, which today includes Fanatics Commerce, Fanatics Collectibles, and Fanatics Betting & Gaming.
Overview
As a Staff Platform Engineer at Fanatics, you will play a key role in shaping and evolving our platform infrastructure. You'll be part of the Platform Engineering team within the Fan Ecosystem organization, working to build reliable, scalable, and developer-friendly systems that power our technology platform. This role reports to the Platform Engineering Manager and involves designing foundational systems, improving developer experience, and ensuring operational excellence at scale.
This is a highly impactful role where you'll work across cloud infrastructure, reliability engineering, and developer tooling, helping to define the future of our platform while maintaining high-quality experiences for our end users.
What You'll Do
- Design, implement, and maintain scalable platform systems that support Fanatics' technology ecosystem.
- Build and evolve developer-focused tooling, automation, and CI/CD workflows to enhance productivity and streamline software delivery.
- Improve system observability, logging, and alerting to reduce incident response times and increase platform resilience.
- Develop infrastructure as code solutions (Terraform) to ensure repeatable, consistent, and secure deployments.
- Design and optimize CI/CD pipelines, improving software delivery automation and efficiency.
- Partner with engineering teams to improve reliability, scalability, and performance of services running in cloud-native environments.
- Contribute to incident response and resolution, helping to drive improvements in availability and system stability.
- Advocate for best practices in software delivery, infrastructure management, and operational excellence.
- Mentor engineers and contribute to a strong engineering culture within the team.
- Stay current with emerging technologies and industry trends, bringing innovative solutions to the team.
What We're Looking For
- Strong software engineering background, with experience in backend development and/or distributed systems.
- Deep understanding of cloud platforms (AWS a plus) and cloud-native architectures.
- Proficiency in Infrastructure as Code (Terraform, CloudFormation) and automation.
- Hands-on experience with CI/CD pipelines, deployment automation, and developer productivity tooling. Familiarity with GitHub Actions is a plus.
- Experience with Kubernetes and container orchestration in production environments.
- Strong knowledge of observability (logging, metrics, tracing) and experience improving system visibility and reliability.
- Experience with incident management and operational best practices for large-scale systems.
- Proficiency in Go or Java preferred, with familiarity in Python or Kotlin as a plus.
- Ability to collaborate effectively across teams, communicate complex topics clearly, and influence engineering best practices.
- Outcome-driven mindset with a focus on solving real-world engineering challenges.
- A positive, adaptable attitude suited for a fast-moving environment.
Why Join Us?
- Work on high-impact platform engineering challenges at scale.
- Collaborate with experienced engineers who value technical excellence and innovation.
- Play a key role in shaping the developer experience and operational foundations of Fan Ecosystem.
- Join a culture that encourages learning, growth, and technical leadership.
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; ranges will change based on country and state of residence, which are reflected in Geographical Zones defined by Fanatics Betting and Gaming. *Salary Range: $144,000 to $282,000 (Salary range incorporates all of our Geographical Compensation Zones and is subject to change as the Zone associated with the actual Offer is confirmed). In addition to the base, 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, Free Shipt deliveries, and more. We'll also give you $700 to set up your home office! For information about our benefits, please visit https://benefitsatfanatics.com/
About Us
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. Through the Fanatics platform, sports fans can buy licensed fan gear, jerseys, lifestyle and streetwear products, headwear, and hardgoods; collect physical and digital trading cards, sports memorabilia, and other digital assets; and bet as the company builds its Sportsbook and iGaming platform. Fanatics has an established database of over 100 million global sports fans; a global partner network with approximately 900 sports properties, including major national and international professional sports leagues, players associations, teams, colleges, college conferences and retail partners, 2,500 athletes and celebrities, and 200 exclusive athletes; and over 2,000 retail locations, including its Lids retail stores. Our more than 22,000 employees are committed to relentlessly enhancing the fan experience and delighting sports fans globally.
About the Team
We are building a global digital sports platform. Our vision is to serve sports fans around the world across their digital sports journey. Few passions are as strong as those that sports evoke. Sports provides connections, creates a sense of community, spans generations, inspires hope to achieve the impossible, serves as a platform for social change, and teaches the value of teamwork. We ignite these passions for global sports fans by offering an integrated, personalized, and immersive fan experience across our businesses, which today includes Fanatics Commerce, Fanatics Collectibles, and Fanatics Betting & Gaming.