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Job Description
Overview
As a Staff Platform Engineer at Fanatics Betting & Gaming (FBG), you are here to help build out our Engineering Excellence team. This role reports to our Director of Engineering Excellence and is responsible for defining, implementing, training, and executing against our engineering strategy, creating processes, and building tools within Fanatics Betting and Gaming. The Staff Engineer will have a broad scope of engagement with cloud technologies, site reliability practices, and CI/CD tooling.
Responsibilities
- Design, implement, and maintain a scalable release pipeline that aligns with GitOps principles.
- Work on observability systems that enable holistic system monitoring and drive down incident response and resolution times.
- Create tooling that empowers developers to focus on value-added activities and product differentiation.
- Solicit and incorporate internal user feedback to ensure productivity tooling meets the needs of our developers.
- Evangelize internal products and tooling to drive adoption within the organization.
- Be part of an incident management team that ensures the high availability of the Fanatics Betting and Gaming platform.
- Build strong relationships with internal stakeholders, inside and outside of Engineering, and collaborate with leaders to gather and present testing metrics and activities.
- Provide leadership and technical expertise within the engineering team. Be a mentor and role model for Engineering.
- Help development teams adhere to the principles, guidelines, and best practices of the engineering strategy.
- Gather and present testing metrics and activities to key stakeholders.
- Remain current on technology and trends in engineering.
- Must be open to occasional travel to events and Bet Fanatics offices for various offsite and team meetings.
Qualifications
- Application development experience (back end or front end).
- In-depth root cause analysis of low-level incidents spanning multiple connected systems.
- Demonstrated proficiency in Infrastructure As Code systems (Terraform, CloudFormation).
- Experience with observability tooling, chaos testing, and incident management.
- Experience implementing and maintaining mature CI/CD release pipelines.
- Ability to integrate 3rd-party systems into a cohesive development platform.
- Positive and flexible attitude to work in a fast-paced environment and a willingness to embrace new initiatives.
- Demonstrated ability to partner closely with engineering teams and implement appropriate tools and practices that balance quality with productivity.
- Highly outcome-oriented and data-driven.
- Excellent influencing and problem-resolution skills.
- Proficiency with Java preferred. Familiarity with Go, Python, and Kotlin are a bonus.
- Experience in a cloud-native environment preferred.
- Global experience preferred.
- Experience with software compliance workflows is a bonus.
If you possess some of these skills but not all of them, we still encourage you to apply
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