Staff Infrastructure Engineer – Data Platform

October 17

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Underdog Fantasy

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Gaming • Sports • B2C

Underdog Fantasy is a company specializing in fantasy sports and sports betting. Despite the technical issue mentioned in the text, it provides a platform where users can engage in fantasy sports contests, draft teams, and potentially win prizes based on the performance of real-world athletes. The company's focus is on providing a fun and competitive experience for sports fans who want to test their skills and luck in fantasy leagues and sports-related betting.

201 - 500 employees

🎮 Gaming

⚽ Sports

👥 B2C

📋 Description

• Design and implement a new real-time data pipeline using Kafka or other queuing technologies, supporting data engineering and ML use cases • Partner with the data engineering team to stream data directly from core app Postgres databases. • Begin executing the migration path from Datastream to a queuing-based architecture • Outline and drive execution steps for eventual cloud migration from GCP to AWS, leveraging cloud-agnostic technologies • Build scalable load testing frameworks to stress test pricing engineering systems and validate autoscaling logic • Integrate testing frameworks into deployment pipelines to ensure robustness in every release. • Collaborate with Pricing Engineering (PE) and Data Engineering (DE) teams to develop a 6–12 month technical roadmap for shared platform initiatives • Modularize Terraform and other infrastructure-as-code solutions to support both PE and DE teams consistently

🎯 Requirements

• 8+ years of experience building and scaling high-performance distributed systems in production environments • 8+ years of hands on expertise with Kubernetes, Kafka/Kinesis, and Terraform for cloud-native infrastructure • Strong background in systems programming with Golang and C++ and a deep understanding of networking fundamentals • Comfortable driving cloud agnostic infrastructure strategies across GCP and AWS • Results-oriented, entrepreneurial, and able to move quickly in ambiguous, fast paced environments • Background in building real time event driven systems for consumer-facing products • Strong sense of ownership with the ability to set technical direction and influence multiple teams • Knowledge of CI/CD pipelines and integrating advanced testing frameworks

🏖️ Benefits

• Unlimited PTO for full-time employees (we're extremely flexible with the exception of the first few weeks before & into the NFL season) • 16 weeks of fully paid parental leave • A $500 home office allowance • A connected virtual-first culture with a highly engaged distributed workforce • 5% 401k match, FSA, company paid health, dental, vision plan options for employees and dependents