Platform Engineer III

Platform Engineer III 

Overview 

As Fanatics Betting & Gaming (FBG) accelerates Fanatics' mission to build the ultimate digital sports platform, the Platform Engineer III plays a vital role in supporting and enhancing our engineering capabilities. Within the OddsFactory division, you'll contribute significantly to the productivity, reliability, and scalability of our engineering practices. Your work directly supports our risk and trading teams, ensuring effective operation and continuous improvement of our real-time, high-performance systems.

This role combines infrastructure skills, software engineering knowledge, and operational excellence to maintain and improve a robust engineering ecosystem. You'll foster a DevOps culture, streamline workflows, enhance system resilience, and provide essential automation and tools that enable our software engineers to deliver innovative, market-leading products.

Join us to help shape Fanatics Betting & Gaming’s platform, enhancing software delivery and operational efficiency while supporting revolutionary fan engagement.

Responsibilities

• Develop and maintain scalable platform infrastructure to support the OddsFactory engineering teams.
• Apply Infrastructure as Code (IaC) practices, automating provisioning, configuration, and management of cloud-based environments using tools such as Terraform, Azure Resource Manager, or CloudFormation.
• Implement and maintain effective CI/CD pipelines, automation tools, and developer tooling to improve deployment speed, code quality, and overall team productivity.
• Assist in initiatives to improve platform security, implementing best practices to ensure compliance and system integrity.
• Collaborate closely with software engineers, product teams, and quant analysts to understand requirements and deliver practical solutions that advance product development.
• Identify and implement continuous improvements to operational processes, documentation, monitoring, and alerting systems.
• Contribute actively to a culture of operational excellence, knowledge sharing, and best practices across teams.
• Enhance system observability through monitoring, logging, tracing, and alerting strategies, and incident management.
• Integrate third-party systems into our development platform to enhance functionality.
• Perform in-depth root cause analysis for incidents spanning multiple connected systems, proactively identifying and addressing issues related to infrastructure, performance, and scalability.
• Stay informed on emerging technologies, advocating appropriate adoption that aligns with our platform strategy.
• Participate in an on-call rotation to maintain platform stability and respond effectively to operational incidents.
• Occasionally travel for team meetings, special events, or collaborative sessions.

Required Qualifications

• 5+ years of experience in platform engineering, DevOps, or related infrastructure roles.
• Application development experience (backend or frontend).
• Practical experience in cloud-native environments (Azure preferred), infrastructure automation, and container orchestration (e.g., Kubernetes or Service Fabric).
• Proficiency in Infrastructure as Code systems (Terraform, Azure Resource Manager, CloudFormation).
• Proven ability to implement and maintain CI/CD release pipelines.
• Experience with scripting and programming (.NET preferred; familiarity with Go, Python, PowerShell beneficial).
• Knowledge of observability tooling, chaos testing, and incident management.
• Strong analytical and problem-solving abilities, with the capability to closely collaborate with engineering teams.
• Highly outcome-oriented, pragmatic, and capable of balancing quality with productivity.
• Effective communication skills, with experience collaborating across diverse teams.
• Positive, flexible attitude comfortable working in a dynamic, fast-paced environment.

Preferred Qualifications

• Familiarity or previous experience within the sports betting industry or strong interest in sports.
• Experience supporting scalable, real-time, or event-driven systems.
• Experience in fast-paced or start-up environments.

If you possess some of these skills but not all of them, we still encourage you to apply!

Fanatics is building a leading global digital sports platform. We ignite the passions of global sports fans and maximize the presence and reach for our hundreds of sports partners globally by offering products and services across Fanatics Commerce, Fanatics Collectibles, and Fanatics Betting & Gaming, allowing sports fans to Buy, Collect, and Bet. Through the Fanatics platform, sports fans can buy licensed fan gear, jerseys, lifestyle and streetwear products, headwear, and hardgoods; collect physical and digital trading cards, sports memorabilia, and other digital assets; and bet as the company builds its Sportsbook and iGaming platform. Fanatics has an established database of over 100 million global sports fans; a global partner network with approximately 900 sports properties, including major national and international professional sports leagues, players associations, teams, colleges, college conferences and retail partners, 2,500 athletes and celebrities, and 200 exclusive athletes; and over 2,000 retail locations, including its Lids retail stores. Our more than 22,000 employees are committed to relentlessly enhancing the fan experience and delighting sports fans globally. 

Launched in 2021, Fanatics Betting and Gaming is the online and retail sports betting subsidiary of Fanatics, a global digital sports platform. The Fanatics Sportsbook is available to 95% of the addressable online sports bettor market in the U.S. Fanatics Casino is currently available online in Michigan, New Jersey, Pennsylvania and West Virginia. Fanatics Betting and Gaming operates twenty-two retail sports betting locations, including the only sportsbook inside an NFL stadium at Northwest Stadium. Fanatics Betting and Gaming is headquartered in New York with offices in Denver, Leeds and Dublin.