Staff Platform Engineer, Data Storage – Core

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🕒 4 days ago

🗽 New York – Remote

🗽 New York – Remote

💵 $172.8k - $216k / year

⏰ Full Time

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Sky Betting & Gaming

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1001 - 5000 employees

🎲 Gambling

🎮 Gaming

👥 B2C

Gambling • Gaming • B2C

Sky Betting & Gaming is a UK-based consumer-facing betting and online gaming operator. Now part of Flutter UK & Ireland and the wider Flutter Entertainment group, the brand is presented alongside Betfair, Paddy Power, PokerStars and tombola as a market-leading provider of trusted entertainment to millions of customers. The company emphasizes responsible play, customer experience and uses digital platforms (web and apps) to deliver betting and gaming services, with operational presence in Leeds and registration under Flutter Entertainment plc.

📋 Description

• Own database liaison responsibility for a portfolio of production PostgreSQL/RDS instances — query review, schema change approval, performance tuning, and incident triage for the teams built on top of them. • Operate and evolve our Kafka/MSK streaming platform: topic lifecycle management via GitOps, cluster health across environments, and CDC (Debezium) pipeline reliability. • Build and maintain self-service tooling that lets product teams provision database and streaming resources without a manual ticket queue. • Drive platform stability projects — operator/version upgrades, root-cause fixes for recurring operational issues, and proactive capacity/cost optimization across the database and streaming fleet. • Act as the technical escalation point for cross-team incidents where the root cause traces back to shared data infrastructure (replication lag, connection exhaustion, CPU/throughput issues). • Represent Platform Storage in cross-org infrastructure initiatives and standardization efforts. • Mentor engineers and participate in on-call rotations.

🎯 Requirements

• 8+ years of experience in platform, infrastructure, or database engineering, with deep hands-on production experience running PostgreSQL (RDS) at scale. • Strong experience operating Kafka (MSK or self-managed) in production, including topic management and CDC/event-streaming pipelines. • Strong SQL fluency — comfortable diagnosing query performance issues and reviewing schema changes for teams you don't sit inside of. • Infrastructure as Code expertise (Terraform). • Experience owning production database reliability across multiple downstream teams simultaneously — able to prioritize across a portfolio, not just one system. • Strong cross-team communicator; this role is equal parts infrastructure engineering and technical partnership with the teams you support.

🏖️ Benefits

• For information about our benefits, please visit https://benefitsatfanatics.com/