Platform Engineer III

Fanatics is a company that operates in the sports merchandise industry, and they are seeking a Platform Engineer III to contribute to building and operating their platform infrastructure. The role involves hands-on engineering, improving developer productivity through automation, and ensuring the reliability and scalability of systems.

Responsibilities:

• Implement and maintain platform infrastructure and services that support Fanatics’ technology ecosystem
• Contribute to developer tooling, automation, and CI/CD workflows to improve developer productivity
• Assist with improving observability through logging, metrics, and alerts for platform systems
• Write and maintain Infrastructure as Code using Terraform
• Contribute to CI/CD pipeline development and maintenance
• Support services running in cloud-native and containerized environments
• Participate in on-call rotations, incident response, and follow-up remediation work
• Learn and apply best practices related to reliability, security, and operational excellence
• Collaborate with teammates and partner teams to deliver platform improvements
• Continuously build technical skills and understanding of platform engineering concepts

Requirements:

• 2+ Years of Experience as a software engineer working on backend systems or infrastructure-related projects
• Familiarity with cloud platforms; AWS experience is a plus
• Exposure to Infrastructure as Code tools such as Terraform or CloudFormation
• Basic experience with CI/CD pipelines and deployment automation
• Familiarity with containerization and container orchestration concepts; experience with Kubernetes is a plus
• Understanding of observability concepts such as logging and monitoring
• Interest in reliability, automation, and improving developer experience
• Proficiency in at least one backend programming language; Go or Python preferred
• Strong desire to learn, grow, and take on increasing responsibility
• Good communication skills and ability to work collaboratively within a team