Senior Platform Engineer

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At Underdog, we believe that sports are for everyone and are building a tomorrow for every fan. Want to help create that future? Join us.

About the role and why it's unique:

• As a Senior Platform Engineer, you will be in an impactful role as one of the founding members of the Platform team. In this role, you will help improve the scalability and performance of both our Fantasy and Sportsbook platforms
• Design, develop, and integrate automation solutions to minimize manual efforts in the fields of build, release, test automation, monitoring, and compliance
• Promote infrastructure stability through application observability best practices and reducing friction in compiling change logs, coordinating releases, and performing deployments
• Manage deployments across multiple environments
• Document the systems you build, monitor, and maintain
• Coordinate with product, design, technical compliance, and customer support to organize priorities and release schedules

Who you are:

• 5+ years of infrastructure engineering experience for large, high traffic applications
• Experience with automation, scripting, CI/CD pipelines, and cloud platform technologies
  • Git, GitHub, GitHub Actions, Docker, Helm, ArgoCD, and Cloud (AWS)
• Experience with logging/monitoring tools
  • Datadog preferred
• Extremely comfortable around an IDE, containers, and deploying code in Kubernetes and Docker
• Experience with monoliths and microservices
• Obsessed with scaling and improving platform performance and developer productivity
• Eager to document, evangelize and support adoption of your work
• Able to test, measure, and iteratively improve your work
• Ability to work both asynchronously and collaboratively, with excellent communication, analytical, and problem solving skills

Even better if you have:

• Experienced with relational databases

• Familiar with Typescript / React frontend, Native Mobile apps, and containerized infrastructures

Our targeted compensation rate for this position is between $150,000 and $210,000, depending on experience, plus equity. Think your skills are exceptional and warrant higher pay? Apply anyway! If we agree, we're willing to negotiate.

This position may require sports betting licensure based on certain state regulations.
What we can offer you:

• Unlimited PTO (we're extremely flexible with the exception of the first few weeks before & into the NFL season)

• 16 weeks of fully paid parental leave

• A $500 home office allowance

• A connected virtual first culture with a highly engaged distributed workforce

• 5% 401k match, FSA, company paid health, dental, vision plan options for employees and dependents

Underdog is an equal opportunity employer and doesn't discriminate on the basis of creed, race, sexual orientation, gender, age, disability status, or any other defining characteristic.

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