Senior Platform Engineer

Fanatics Betting & Gaming (FBG) is seeking a Senior Platform Engineer to join their Platform Engineering team. The role involves working across cloud infrastructure, Kubernetes platforms, CI/CD systems, and internal developer tooling to enhance and support the developer platform while improving reliability and scalability.

Responsibilities:

• Own and deliver medium-to-large platform projects from implementation through production
• Build and maintain internal platform services and tooling that improve developer experience and delivery velocity
• Partner with application teams to unblock delivery and align platform capabilities with developer needs
• Drive cloud cost efficiency and optimization across our cloud and infrastructure
• Improve operational excellence through observability, automation, and incident response
• Help evolve CI/CD pipelines and GitOps-based workflows
• Mentor junior engineers through code reviews and knowledge sharing
• Participate in on-call rotations and incident response

Requirements:

• 5–7 years of experience in platform, infrastructure, DevOps, or software engineering
• Proficiency with Python and Java. Familiarity with Kotlin, Go a plus
• Deep Kubernetes and container orchestration knowledge
• Proven CI/CD and GitOps experience
• Infrastructure as Code expertise (Terraform)
• Strong AWS and cloud-native experience
• Experience operating distributed, high-availability systems
• Strong ownership mindset and ability to deliver defined projects independently
• Clear communication and strong collaboration skills
• Experience with internal developer platforms or tooling
• Exposure to regulated or high-availability environments
• Backend development experience (Java, Python, Go, or similar)
• Familiarity with observability and reliability engineering practices