Senior Platform Engineer

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. Overview Fanatics Betting & Gaming (FBG) is seeking a Senior Platform Engineer to join our Platform Engineering team. This role will sit in either our Runtime/Compute or the Developer Experience/CICD squad. As a Senior Platform Engineer, you will work across cloud infrastructure, Kubernetes platforms, CI/CD systems, and internal developer tooling. You will work closely with Product Engineering, Security, Infrastructure IT, and other platform teams to build, enhance, and support our developer platform. You will help define standards and best practices, and act as a force multiplier for engineering teams by improving reliability, scalability, and developer productivity. What You’ll Do • 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 What You Bring • 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 Nice to Have • Experience with interna