Staff DevOps Engineer

Fliff•Philadelphia, PA

1d•$180,000 - $220,000•Remote

About The Position

Fliff unpacks sports gaming into social, free-to-play games for all types of sports fans. We've built a social sports gaming experience that allows users to compete for leaderboard positioning, to achieve badges and build their status within the game. We are pioneering play-for-fun sports gaming, with our flagship social sportsbook experience that includes sweepstakes promotions and loyalty rewards. We provide sports fans with fun, engaging, and free-to-play alternatives to real money gaming. Who We’re Looking For Fliff is looking for a Staff DevOps Engineer who is passionate about building scalable, reliable, and secure platforms that power real-time, high-traffic user experiences. You thrive in a fast-paced environment, excel at solving complex distributed systems problems, and enjoy partnering closely with Product, Engineering, and Security teams. You bring a platform mindset, an automation-first philosophy, and the ability to drive architectural decisions that improve engineering velocity and system reliability.

Requirements

7+ years of SRE/DevOps/Cloud Infrastructure experience supporting production systems at scale.
Proven experience running distributed systems and microservices in high-traffic or high-availability environments.
Deep knowledge of Kubernetes, Helm, and cloud-native architecture (preferably AWS).
Strong proficiency in Go or another backend programming language.
Exposure to PostgreSQL, Redis, DynamoDB, or Cassandra performance tuning in a production environment.
Deep familiarity with event-driven systems, streaming pipelines, or messaging platforms such as Kinesis, Kafka, Pub/Sub, or RabbitMQ.
Advanced hands-on experience with Terraform or a comparable IaC solution.
Strong practical understanding of observability stacks (Datadog, Prometheus, Grafana, OpenTelemetry, etc.).
Experience implementing SLOs, SLIs, error budgets, and reliability-driven engineering practices.
Expertise with CI/CD pipelines and GitOps workflows.
Solid foundation in security fundamentals: IAM, network policies, workload hardening, secrets management.
Demonstrated leadership in technical decision-making, cross-functional influence, and on-call/incident management.
Excellent communication skills and the ability to work effectively across product, engineering, and leadership teams.
Ability to influence org-wide DevOps maturity, champion best practices, and drive standards across multiple teams.

Nice To Haves

Background in infrastructure cost modeling and optimization, particularly in high-scale microservices environments.
Experience running workloads requiring low latency or real-time processing (gaming, sports, fintech, ad tech, streaming).
Prior involvement in PCI, SOC2, GDPR, or similar compliance initiatives.
Experience mentoring or guiding cross-functional engineering groups (backend teams, mobile teams, data teams).

Responsibilities

Architect, build, and operate highly available, high-performance infrastructure that supports large volumes of real-time traffic, especially during peak sports windows.
Lead the design and development of internal platforms, tooling, and automated workflows that accelerate engineering productivity.
Own and improve observability (metrics, logs, traces), monitoring, and alerting to ensure fast detection and resolution of issues.
Drive incident response, root-cause analysis, and reliability improvements across the engineering organization.
Enhance and maintain our Kubernetes-based platform, including Helm charts, multi-environment pipelines, cluster upgrades, and operational hardening.
Implement and evolve security best practices around IAM, network architecture, secrets management, and infrastructure governance.
Build and maintain CI/CD pipelines that support safe, rapid, and stable deployments.
Partner with engineering leadership on capacity planning, cost optimization, and infrastructure roadmap planning.
Mentor and guide engineers across teams, influencing architectural direction and DevOps best practices.
Champion Infrastructure-as-Code, GitOps workflows, and automation as the default mode of operating.

Benefits

The annual salary for this role ranges from $180,000 to $220,000, depending on experience and background.
Unlimited/ Flexible Time Off: Flexible vacation policy
Health benefits with 100% paid premiums for medical, dental, and vision plans for employees and dependents, plus an on-demand healthcare concierge.
Pre-tax savings plans for healthcare, with up to a $500 annual employer contribution to the HSA (if enrolled in the HSA medical plan).
Employee-sponsored 401(k) to help reach your financial goals.
Fully remote work environment.
Generous parental leave.
Professional development opportunities in a dynamic, global setting.
$500 work-from-home stipend + Equipment & Accessories.
Opportunity for professional development in a dynamic, global setting.
A supportive, collaborative, and knowledge-driven workplace.
An engaging and challenging role with the freedom to innovate and develop effective solutions.