Platform Engineer III

Fanatics

90d • $128,000 - $252,000

About The Position

As Fanatics Betting & Gaming (FBG) accelerates Fanatics' mission to build the ultimate digital sports platform, the Platform Engineer role is foundational to empowering our software engineering teams. As a Platform Engineer at FBG, you'll play a critical role enhancing the productivity, reliability, and scalability of our engineering practices. Your work directly supports the entire engineering organization, ensuring the seamless operation and continuous improvement of our real-time, high-performance systems. This role combines infrastructure expertise, software engineering principles, and strategic insight to foster a robust engineering ecosystem. You’ll champion DevOps culture, streamline development workflows, enhance system resilience, and provide the essential tools and automation needed for our software engineers to deliver innovative, market-leading products. On the engineering side, we're pioneering the use of AI as a code collaborator. We need engineers who have gone beyond experimentation—who actively use Claude Code, Cursor, GitHub Copilot, or similar tools to ship production code faster while maintaining exceptional quality standards. If you have strong opinions about AI-augmented development workflows backed by real experience, we want to talk with you.

Requirements

• 5-7 years of proven experience in platform engineering, DevOps, or related infrastructure roles
• Application development experience (fullstack preferred)
• Strong technical expertise in cloud-native environments (AWS preferred), infrastructure automation, and container orchestration (Kubernetes preferred)
• Demonstrated proficiency in Infrastructure as Code systems such as Terraform, Pulumi, or CloudFormation
• Experience implementing and maintaining mature CI/CD release pipelines
• Proficiency with programming and scripting languages (Java and Python preferred; Golang is a bonus)
• Experience with observability tooling, chaos testing, and incident management
• Excellent influencing, problem-solving, and analytical skills, with demonstrated ability to partner closely with engineering teams
• Highly outcome-oriented, data-driven, and capable of balancing quality with productivity
• Strong communication skills, able to effectively collaborate across international teams
• Positive and flexible attitude, comfortable working in a fast-paced environment and embracing new initiatives
• Demonstrated experience using AI tools (Claude Code, Cursor, Copilot, etc.) to ship production code
• Can articulate specific examples of AI workflow improvements (e.g., "reduced boilerplate generation time by 40%")
• Has developed personal strategies for validating AI-generated code and identifying common pitfalls
• Can compare at least 2-3 AI tools with concrete pros/cons from actual usage
• Team-first mentality with willingness to jump in wherever needed
• Actively experiments with and optimizes personal development workflow
• Strong written and verbal communication skills
• Self-directed problem solver who thrives in ambiguous situations

Nice To Haves

• Experience in sports betting industry or genuine interest in sports
• Previous experience in high-growth startup environments
• Contributions to open-source projects or technical community
• Experience with real-money transaction systems and regulatory compliance
• Background in building developer tools or improving engineering productivity
• Experience leading without authority and influencing technical direction across teams

Responsibilities

• Leverage AI tools to accelerate development velocity while maintaining code quality standards
• Establish and document team standards for AI tool usage (prompt patterns, code review checklists, validation strategies)
• Measure and report on AI tool ROI through concrete metrics (PR velocity, bug rates, test coverage)
• Identify and prevent common AI-generated code pitfalls (over-abstraction, missing edge cases, security vulnerabilities)
• Architect, build, and maintain highly available and scalable platform infrastructure to support our engineering teams
• Design and implement robust CI/CD pipelines, automation tools, and developer tooling to streamline deployments, improve code quality, and enhance team productivity
• Enhance platform security, implementing best practices to ensure compliance and safeguard the integrity of our systems
• Collaborate closely with software engineers, product teams, and quant analysts to understand requirements and proactively deliver solutions that accelerate product development and innovation
• Drive continuous improvements to operational processes, platform reliability, documentation, monitoring, and alerting systems
• Foster a culture of operational excellence, sharing knowledge, and promoting best practices across teams
• Support and enhance system observability through effective monitoring, logging, tracing, and alerting strategies
• Stay abreast of emerging technologies and industry trends, advocating for adoption of new tools and techniques that align with our platform strategy
• Participate in an on-call rotation, ensuring platform stability and providing critical support for operational incidents
• Occasionally travel for essential offsite meetings, special events, or collaborative team sessions

Benefits

• Medical
• Dental
• Vision
• 401K
• Paid time off
• GymPass
• Pet Insurance
• Family Care Benefits
• $700 to set up your home office

What This Job Offers

• Job Type: Full-time
• Career Level: Mid Level
• Number of Employees: 251-500 employees