Staff Engineer

Overview 

As Fanatics Betting & Gaming (FBG) accelerates Fanatics' mission to build the ultimate digital sports platform, the Staff Engineer role is foundational to empowering our software engineering teams. Joining our OddsFactory division, you'll play a critical role in enhancing the productivity, reliability, security and scalability of our engineering practices. 

OddsFactory powers in-play features at massive scale (billions of simulations/month). Today we run Windows services on Service Fabric in Azure; we’re accelerating Kubernetes + GitOps (Argo CD) and exploring dual-cloud opportunities. As a Staff Engineer, you’ll boost developer productivity through platform reliability, security, and scale.

Embrace this opportunity to shape the backbone of Fanatics Betting & Gaming’s cutting-edge risk & trading platform, driving excellence in software delivery and operational efficiency while revolutionizing fan engagement.

You Will:

• Own core architecture across compute, networking, identity, and guardrails - delivered as code (Terraform/Terragrunt).
• Architect, build, and maintain highly available and scalable  infrastructure to support the OddsFactory engineering teams.
• Drive secure-by-default and Zero Trust (least privilege, workload identity/OIDC, policy-as-code, supply-chain hardening).
• Design and implement robust CI/CD pipelines, automation tools, and developer tooling to streamline deployments, improve code quality, and enhance team productivity.
• Lead initiatives to enhance platform security, implementing best practices to ensure compliance and safeguard the integrity of our systems.
• Champion infrastructure as code (IaC) practices, automating provisioning, configuration, and management of cloud-based environments.
• Foster a culture of metrics driven operational excellence, sharing knowledge, mentoring engineers, and promoting best practices across teams.
• Proactively identify, troubleshoot, and resolve infrastructure, performance, and scalability issues, ensuring system reliability and optimal performance.
• 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.

Required Qualifications

• 8+ years of proven experience in platform engineering, DevOps, or related infrastructure roles.
• Strong software engineering background - you write clean code and have experience engineering solutions to complex problem statements
• Strong technical expertise in cloud-native environments (Azure preferred), infrastructure automation, and container orchestration (Service Fabric or Kubernetes).
• Demonstrated proficiency in Infrastructure as Code systems such as Terraform, Azure Resource Manager, or CloudFormation.
• Proficiency with programming and scripting languages (.NET & C# preferred; familiarity with Go or Python 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.

Preferred Qualifications

• Resilience & Continuity: Multi‑AZ/region architectures, automated failover; defined RTO/RPO with regular DR/chaos exercises and recovery runbooks.
• Traffic & Policy Plane: Service mesh (mTLS by default, traffic policy, canary/blue‑green, traffic splitting)
• Packaging & Delivery: Helm and/or kustomize; Argo CD progressive delivery; multi‑cluster promotion; multi‑tenant GitOps controllers and environment templating.
• Secrets & Identity: External Secrets patterns; Azure Key Vault/AWS KMS; workload identity/OIDC, least privilege, and policy‑as‑code (e.g., OPA/Gatekeeper, Kyverno).
• Also a plus: Cloudflare integrations • Azure • AWS • Kubernetes • Kafka • High Availability
• Familiarity or previous experience within the sports betting industry or strong interest in sports.
• Experience working with cross-functional teams in fast-paced or start-up environments.

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