[Remote] Senior Platform Engineer - Core

Note: The job is a remote job and is open to candidates in USA. Fanatics is hiring a Senior Platform Engineer for its Platform team. The role focuses on delivering cloud infrastructure, Kubernetes platforms, CI/CD systems, observability, and internal developer tooling, while maintaining service health and supporting incident response and engineering teams.

Responsibilities

• Design, implement, and maintain scalable platform services and infrastructure supporting Fanatics’ technology ecosystem
• Build and improve developer tooling, automation, and CI/CD workflows to streamline software delivery
• Contribute to observability initiatives, including logging, metrics, and alerting, to improve system reliability and incident response
• Develop and maintain Infrastructure as Code solutions using Terraform to ensure consistent and secure environments
• Design, implement, and optimize CI/CD pipelines to improve deployment speed and reliability
• Partner with application and platform teams to improve performance, scalability, and reliability in cloud-native environments
• 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 and approaches to platform engineering challenges

Skills

• 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
• Familiarity with AI-assisted development tools
• Strong collaboration and communication skills, with the ability to work effectively across teams
• Pragmatic, outcome-oriented mindset focused on delivering reliable platform solutions
• Comfortable operating in a fast-paced, evolving environment
• Proficiency in Go or Python is preferred
• 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

Benefits

• Remote work.
• 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 Fanatics Core.
• Join a culture that encourages learning, growth, and technical leadership.

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