Staff Engineer - Platform Storage

Overview 

As a Staff Engineer, Platform Storage at Fanatics Betting & Gaming (FBG), you are here to help build out our Cloud Platforms organization. This role reports to our Senior Manager of Platform Storage and is responsible for defining, implementing, training, and executing against our engineering strategy, creating processes, and building tools within Fanatics Betting and Gaming. The Staff Engineer, Platform Storage will have a broad scope of engagement with cloud technologies, site reliability practices, and self-service infrastructure tooling.

Responsibilities

• Design, implement, and maintain large-scale, distributed storage systems as part of a team, advocating for making the right tradeoffs in terms of risk, scale, reliability, and cost performance.
• Create self-service developer tooling that interfaces with the storage infrastructure layer with an emphasis in developer experience
• Work on observability systems that enable holistic system monitoring and drive down incident response and resolution times.
• Create tooling that empowers developers to focus on value-added activities and product differentiation.
• Solicit and incorporate internal user feedback to ensure productivity tooling meets the needs of our developers.
• Evangelize internal products and tooling to drive adoption within the organization.
• Be part of an incident management team that ensures the high availability of the Fanatics Betting and Gaming platform.
• Build strong relationships with internal stakeholders, inside and outside of Engineering, and collaborate with leaders to gather and present testing metrics and activities.
• Provide leadership and technical expertise within the engineering team.  Be a mentor and role model for Engineering. 
• Help development teams adhere to the principles, guidelines, and best practices of the engineering strategy.
• Remain current on technologies and trends in database engineering, messaging, and caching.
• Must be open to occasional travel to events and Bet Fanatics offices for various offsite and team meetings.

Required Qualifications 

• 6+ Experience building and maintaining large-scale data platforms.
• 3+ years of experience developing applications in a distributed systems environment (back end preferred).
• Experience with multiple database platforms and technologies, including relational, non-relational, and caching products.
• Experience with multiple messaging and caching platforms and technologies (Kafka, ActiveMQ, and Elasticache Redis preferred).
• Bonus points for open source contributions to PostgreSQL, MySQL or similar products.
• Extensive hands-on experience in using AWS & open-source services like RDS, Kafka, and Redis.‘
• Excellent communication, including influencing and problem-resolution skills.
• Demonstrated ability to partner closely with engineering teams and implement appropriate tools and practices that balance quality with productivity.
• Positive and flexible attitude to work in a fast-paced environment and a willingness to embrace new initiatives. 
• High personal initiative. A desire to seek out problems, learn quickly, and apply solutions proactively and fearlessly.
• Highly outcome-oriented and data-driven.
• In-depth root cause analysis of low-level incidents spanning multiple connected systems.
• Demonstrated proficiency in Infrastructure As Code systems (Terraform, CloudFormation)
• Experience with observability tooling, chaos testing, and incident management.
• Ability to integrate 3rd-party systems into a cohesive development platform.
• Proficiency with Java, Golang, or Python required. Python is strongly preferred.

Preferred Qualifications

• Experience in a cloud-native environment is preferred
• Experience with software compliance workflows is a bonus.
• Global experience with distributed organizations preferred.
• Experience with software compliance workflows is a bonus

If you possess some of these skills but not all of them, we still encourage you to apply!

 

Fanatics is building a leading global digital sports platform. The company ignites the passions of global sports fans and maximizes the presence and reach for hundreds of sports partners globally by offering innovative products and services across Fanatics Commerce, Fanatics Collectibles, and Fanatics Betting & Gaming, allowing sports fans to Buy, Collect and Bet. Through the Fanatics platform, sports fans can buy licensed fan gear, jerseys, lifestyle and streetwear products, headwear, and hardgoods; collect physical and digital trading cards, sports memorabilia, and other