Fanatics
Staff Platform Engineer - Core
$200K–$250K
New York, NY, United States +1 · Staff · Full-time · Posted Oct 22, 2026
- Location
- New York, NY, United States
Jacksonville, Florida, United States
About the job
Leads the design and delivery of cloud platform services, infrastructure, and developer tooling that support Fanatics’ core services.
What you'll do
- Lead complex platform initiatives from architecture and design through deployment and refinement.
- Design and maintain scalable platform services, automation, CI/CD, and infrastructure; improve observability and reliability.
- Coordinate across teams, participate in incident response, and provide technical guidance and mentorship.
What they ask for
- Experience leading complex initiatives and driving team strategy.
- Strong software engineering background, including backend development and distributed systems.
- Deep understanding of AWS, Kubernetes, and cloud-native architectures; proficiency in Infrastructure as Code and automation.
- Hands-on CI/CD experience, observability and incident-management knowledge, and proficiency in Go or Python.
Nice to have
- Experience scaling services globally, FinOps or cloud cost management, or regulated or high-availability environments.
- Experience with Java or Kotlin, GitHub Actions, Kafka, or Cassandra.
Pay
$200,000 — $250,000 USD (base salary)
Tools
AWS, Terraform, CloudFormation, Kubernetes, Go, Python, Java, Kotlin
AI focus
Familiarity with AI-assisted development tools.
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