Senior Engineer, DevOps
FANATICS COLLECTIBLES
$144,000 - $180,000 / year
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About Us
Fanatics Collectibles is a new company operating at the intersection of collectibles, culture, and technology. Backed by world-class investors, operators, and sports & entertainment partners, we are building the global leader in next-generation collectibles. As part of the broader Fanatics ecosystem, we leverage a digital sports platform that spans over 900 sports properties and engages more than 81 million fans. Together, we are reimagining every part of the collectibles experience for fans, partners, and creators.
About the Role
We're looking for a Senior Engineer, DevOps to join the Live & Collect Infrastructure team in Los Angeles. You'll design, build, and operate the cloud foundation that powers Fanatics' Live & Collect platforms across AWS and GCP. This is a hands-on role for someone who enjoys solving hard infrastructure problems at scale, applying AI/ML tooling to infrastructure and operations, mentoring other engineers, and championing DevOps maturity across the org.
What You'll Do
- Design, build, and maintain scalable, resilient infrastructure across AWS and GCP using infrastructure-as-code (Terraform).
- Own core cloud platform services — Kubernetes, networking, and CI/CD pipelines.
- Evaluate and integrate AI-assisted tooling (e.g., LLM-based automation, AIOps, intelligent monitoring) to improve infrastructure efficiency and operations.
- Partner with product and platform engineering teams to architect cloud solutions that support high-traffic, high-availability Live & Collect systems.
- Administer and tune managed and self-hosted databases (Cloud Spanner, AWS RDS, PostgreSQL), including performance tuning, capacity planning, backup/recovery, and query optimization.
- Drive reliability and cost-efficiency initiatives across multi-cloud environments.
- Champion DevOps best practices, scalable infrastructure patterns, and observability standards across engineering teams.
- Mentor engineers on cloud architecture, automation, and operational excellence.
- Participate in an on-call rotation, responding to and resolving production incidents to meet SLAs.
- Contribute to security hardening, compliance, and disaster-recovery planning for cloud infrastructure.
What We're Looking For
- 5+ years of experience in cloud engineering, infrastructure, or SRE roles, with production experience in both AWS and GCP.
- Strong background with infrastructure-as-code (Terraform preferred) and container orchestration (Kubernetes).
- Hands-on database administration and tuning experience with Cloud Spanner, AWS RDS, and PostgreSQL (performance tuning, replication, backup/recovery, capacity planning).
- Experience with CI/CD tooling and modern DevOps automation practices.
- Familiarity with AI/ML-powered tooling for infrastructure automation, monitoring, or operations (e.g., AIOps platforms, LLM-based automation, copilots for infra/ops workflows).
- Solid scripting/programming ability (Python, Go, or similar) for automation and tooling.
- Demonstrated experience operating and troubleshooting large-scale, distributed, high-availability systems.
- Comfortable carrying on-call responsibilities and driving incidents to resolution under pressure.
- Strong communication skills and experience mentoring other engineers.
- Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or equivalent practical experience.
Nice to Have
- Experience supporting live events, auctions, or other high-traffic consumer platforms.
- Hands-on experience building or integrating AI/ML pipelines or infrastructure for AI workloads.
- Relevant cloud certifications (AWS or GCP).
- Familiarity with cost optimization and FinOps practices across multi-cloud environments.
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The salary range represents base pay only and does not include short-term or long-term incentive compensation. This salary range is specific to Los Angeles and may not be applicable to other locations. When determining base pay, as part of a final compensation package, we consider several factors such as location, experience, qualifications, and training. For information about our benefits, please visit https://benefitsatfanatics.com/
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About this role
Fanatics Collectibles is seeking a Senior Engineer, DevOps to own the cloud infrastructure powering its Live & Collect platforms. You'll design and operate scalable systems across AWS and GCP, manage Kubernetes and CI/CD pipelines, administer databases like Cloud Spanner and PostgreSQL, and drive reliability and cost efficiency across multi-cloud environments. This is a hands-on role where you'll also evaluate emerging AI/ML tooling to improve infrastructure automation and operations.
The position requires at least five years of cloud engineering, infrastructure, or SRE experience with production work in both AWS and GCP. You'll need strong infrastructure-as-code skills (Terraform), container orchestration expertise, hands-on database administration and tuning, and solid scripting ability in Python, Go, or similar languages. Familiarity with AI-powered infrastructure tooling is expected, and you should be comfortable carrying on-call responsibilities and resolving production incidents under pressure.
Beyond technical depth, you'll mentor other engineers on cloud architecture and DevOps best practices, partner with product teams on high-traffic system design, and champion infrastructure maturity across the organization. The role is based in Los Angeles and requires in-office work. Experience with live events or high-traffic consumer platforms, cloud certifications, and FinOps knowledge are valued but not required.
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