Fanatics
Senior Platform Engineer - Core
$170K–$212K
New York, NY, United States +1 · Senior · Full-time · Posted Oct 21, 2026
- Location
- New York, NY, United States
Jacksonville, Florida, United States
About the job
Build and operate the platform services, cloud infrastructure, and developer tools that support Fanatics’ core business systems.
What you'll do
- Design and maintain scalable platform infrastructure, including Kubernetes platforms and Terraform-based Infrastructure as Code.
- Develop developer tooling, automation, and CI/CD pipelines; improve observability and reliability.
- Own operational health, participate in incident response and reviews, and mentor engineers.
What they ask for
- Strong software engineering background with experience in backend systems and distributed architectures.
- Understanding of AWS and cloud-native architectures.
- Hands-on Infrastructure as Code experience with Terraform or CloudFormation, plus CI/CD pipeline and automation experience.
- Experience operating Kubernetes workloads in production, with observability practices and production incident support.
Nice to have
- Proficiency in Go or Python; familiarity with AI-assisted development tools.
- Global service scaling, FinOps, regulated or high-availability environments, Java or Kotlin, GitHub Actions, Kafka, or Cassandra experience.
Pay
$170,000 — $212,500 USD (base salary)
Tools
AWS, Kubernetes, Terraform, CloudFormation, Go, Python, GitHub Actions, Kafka
AI focus
Familiarity with AI-assisted development tools.
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