Staff Data Platform Engineer

🕒 July 17

🤠 Texas – Remote

🤠 Texas – Remote

⏰ Full Time

🔴 Lead

🏗️ Platform Engineer

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FloSports

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201 - 500 employees

⚽ Sports

👥 B2C

📱 Media

Sports • B2C • Media

FloSports is a global independent sports media company delivering live events, award-winning original content, and comprehensive sports data solutions to passionate and underserved sports communities. They focus on over 25 different sports, including motorsports, wrestling, hockey, cheer, track & field, and various NCAA athletics, providing always-on social experiences to engage audiences.

📋 Description

• Lead the architecture and design of complex, large-scale distributed systems • Design, develop, and maintain scalable, fault-tolerant microservices for both real-time and batch data processing; • Build and maintain high-performance REST APIs with a focus on scalability, reliability, and maintainability; • Design and implement data models and queries for efficient storage and retrieval across SQL and NoSQL databases; • Lead data quality initiatives to ensure consistency, accuracy, and reliability of data across the platform; • Collaborate with cross-functional teams to translate platform requirements into effective technical solutions • Drive technical standards and best practices for code quality, testing, and observability across engineering teams; • Mentor and provide technical guidance to engineers through code reviews, design discussions, and direct support • Take end-to-end ownership of the software development lifecycle, including deployment, monitoring, and incident response.

🎯 Requirements

• Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Computer Engineering, Software Engineering, Information Systems, Data Science, or a related field or foreign equivalent; • Minimum 10 years of industry experience with a focus on backend and data engineering • Proven experience designing and operating distributed data systems using a micro-services architecture, with a solid understanding of scalability, fault tolerance, performance, and observability best practices; • Hands-on experience with CI/CD pipelines and deployment automation; • A track record of writing high-quality, maintainable code across multiple services and teams; • Strong leadership skills to guide, mentor, and support engineers while fostering a collaborative team culture; • Excellent communication, analytical, and problem-solving skills; • Ability to adapt to a rapidly changing environment with evolving or ambiguous requirements; • Demonstrated ability to work independently, take ownership of complex projects, and drive them to completion with minimal supervision; • Ability to leverage AI-powered tools and frameworks to enhance developer productivity, automate workflows, and optimize data-driven systems; • Experience with AWS serverless technologies (e.g., SST, CDK, Terraform), NoSQL databases (e.g., DynamoDB), stream processing (e.g., Kinesis, DynamoDB Streams); • Experience developing backend services using modern languages such as TypeScript and Node.js • Experience deploying and managing applications on public cloud platforms (e.g., AWS, GCP).

🏖️ Benefits

• Recognized three years in a row as a Top Workplace by the Austin-American Statesman • Flexibility at work - you can take control of your profession and personal schedule • All-hands events hosted in beautiful Austin, Texas • Annual equity awards for all top performers • Competitive and comprehensive medical, dental and vision plans • Peace of mind through company-paid short-term disability, long-term disability and life insurance • Generous 401(K) company match vested immediately • Progressive parental leave policies • Flexible paid time off • Hack-a-thons and a full calendar of team-building and social events • Company donation to youth teams and leagues that our employees coach • Stocked snack bar, catered lunch and breakfast tacos every week