Platform Engineer III

October 2

🗽 New York – Remote

Although this job is listed in New York, this company may be open to hiring remote in other states.

💵 $128k - $252k / year

⏰ Full Time

🟡 Mid-level

🟠 Senior

🏗️ Platform Engineer

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Fanatics, Inc.

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Gaming • Retail • eCommerce

Fanatics is building a leading global digital sports platform that aims to enhance the fan experience for over 100 million sports enthusiasts worldwide. The company operates across several divisions including Fanatics Commerce, Fanatics Collectibles, and Fanatics Betting & Gaming. They offer fans the opportunity to buy licensed fan gear, jerseys, lifestyle products, and headwear, collect physical and digital trading cards, sports memorabilia, and other digital assets, as well as engage in sports betting. Fanatics partners with over 900 sports properties globally, including major leagues, teams, and athletes, and operates more than 2,000 retail locations. The company is committed to corporate responsibility with a focus on philanthropy, diversity and inclusion, brand protection, and sustainability.

1001 - 5000 employees

Founded 2011

🎮 Gaming

🛒 Retail

🛍️ eCommerce

📋 Description

• Leverage AI tools to accelerate development velocity while maintaining code quality standards. • Establish and document team standards for AI tool usage (prompt patterns, code review checklists, validation strategies). • Measure and report on AI tool ROI through concrete metrics (PR velocity, bug rates, test coverage). • Identify and prevent common AI-generated code pitfalls (over-abstraction, missing edge cases, security vulnerabilities). • Architect, build, and maintain highly available and scalable platform infrastructure to support our engineering teams. • Design and implement robust CI/CD pipelines, automation tools, and developer tooling to streamline deployments, improve code quality, and enhance team productivity. • Enhance platform security, implementing best practices to ensure compliance and safeguard the integrity of our systems. • Collaborate closely with software engineers, product teams, and quant analysts to understand requirements and proactively deliver solutions that accelerate product development and innovation. • Drive continuous improvements to operational processes, platform reliability, documentation, monitoring, and alerting systems. • Foster a culture of operational excellence, sharing knowledge, and promoting best practices across teams. • Support and enhance system observability through effective monitoring, logging, tracing, and alerting strategies. • 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.

🎯 Requirements

• 5-7 years of proven experience in platform engineering, DevOps, or related infrastructure roles. • Application development experience (fullstack preferred). • Strong technical expertise in cloud-native environments (AWS preferred), infrastructure automation, and container orchestration (Kubernetes preferred). • Demonstrated proficiency in Infrastructure as Code systems such as Terraform, Pulumi, or CloudFormation. • Experience implementing and maintaining mature CI/CD release pipelines. • Proficiency with programming and scripting languages (Java and Python preferred; Golang 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. • Demonstrated experience using AI tools (Claude Code, Cursor, Copilot, etc.) to ship production code. • Can articulate specific examples of AI workflow improvements (e.g., "reduced boilerplate generation time by 40%"). • Has developed personal strategies for validating AI-generated code and identifying common pitfalls. • Can compare at least 2-3 AI tools with concrete pros/cons from actual usage. • Team-first mentality with willingness to jump in wherever needed. • Actively experiments with and optimizes personal development workflow. • Strong written and verbal communication skills. • Self-directed problem solver who thrives in ambiguous situations.

🏖️ Benefits

• Medical • Dental • Vision • 401K • paid time off • GymPass • Pet Insurance • Family Care Benefits • Home office setup allowance