Staff Engr Platform

Staff Platform Engineer

Overview 

As Fanatics Betting & Gaming (FBG) accelerates Fanatics' mission to build the ultimate digital sports platform, the Staff Platform Engineer role is foundational to empowering our software engineering teams. Joining our OddsFactory division, you'll play a critical role in enhancing the productivity, reliability, security and scalability of our engineering practices. 

OddsFactory powers in-play features at massive scale (billions of simulations/month). Today we run Windows services on Service Fabric in Azure; we’re accelerating Kubernetes + GitOps (Argo CD) and exploring dual-cloud opportunities. As a Staff Platform Engineer, you’ll boost developer productivity through platform reliability, security, and scale.

Embrace this opportunity to shape the backbone of Fanatics Betting & Gaming’s cutting-edge risk & trading platform, driving excellence in software delivery and operational efficiency while revolutionizing fan engagement.

You Will:

• Own core platform architecture across compute, networking, identity, and guardrails - delivered as code (Terraform/Terragrunt).
• Architect, build, and maintain highly available and scalable platform infrastructure to support the OddsFactory engineering teams.
• Drive secure-by-default and Zero Trust (least privilege, workload identity/OIDC, policy-as-code, supply-chain hardening).
• Design and implement robust CI/CD pipelines, automation tools, and developer tooling to streamline deployments, improve code quality, and enhance team productivity.
• Lead initiatives to enhance platform security, implementing best practices to ensure compliance and safeguard the integrity of our systems.
• Champion infrastructure as code (IaC) practices, automating provisioning, configuration, and management of cloud-based environments.
• Foster a culture of metrics driven operational excellence, sharing knowledge, mentoring engineers, and promoting best practices across teams.
• Proactively identify, troubleshoot, and resolve infrastructure, performance, and scalability issues, ensuring system reliability and optimal performance.
• 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.

Required Qualifications

• 7+ years of proven experience in platform engineering, DevOps, or related infrastructure roles.
• Strong software engineering background - you write clean code and have experience engineering solutions to complex problem statements
• Strong technical expertise in cloud-native environments (Azure preferred), infrastructure automation, and container orchestration (Service Fabric or Kubernetes).
• Demonstrated proficiency in Infrastructure as Code systems such as Terraform, Azure Resource Manager, or CloudFormation.
• Proficiency with programming and scripting languages (.NET & PowerShell preferred; familiarity with Go or Python 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.

Preferred Qualifications

• Resilience & Continuity: Multi‑AZ/region architectures, automated failover; defined RTO/RPO with regular DR/chaos exercises and recovery runbooks.
• Traffic & Policy Plane: Service mesh (mTLS by default, traffic policy, canary/blue‑green, traffic splitting)
• Packaging & Delivery: Helm and/or kustomize; Argo CD progressive delivery; multi‑cluster promotion; multi‑tenant GitOps controllers and environment templating.
• Secrets & Identity: External Secrets patterns; Azure Key Vault/AWS KMS; workload identity/OIDC, least privilege, and policy‑as‑code (e.g., OPA/Gatekeeper, Kyverno).
• Also a plus: Cloudflare integrations • Azure • AWS • Kubernetes • Kafka • High Availability
• Familiarity or previous experience within the sports betting industry or strong interest in sports.
• Experience working with cross-functional teams in fast-paced or start-up environments.

Ready to build the future of sports betting? If you possess some of these skills but not all of them, we still encourage you to apply!Please note that visa sponsorship is not available for this position. We are open to fully remote candidates based in the United Kingdom, but we strongly encourage those who can join us on campus two days per week.

ABOUT US

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. 

ABOUT THE TEAM

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.