About the Role
Title: Senior Platform Engineer
Location: United States/Remote
Job Description:
Hi, were Underdog!
Were the fastest-growing sports gaming company ever.
Our mission is to build innovative games and products for American sports fans.
Founded in 2020, our team built three of today’s most widely played fantasy games and successfully launched the largest contest in the history of fantasy sports: a $15M NFL Best Ball tournament — and theres a lot more to come! Underdogs modern tech environment and in-house product development allow us to continuously deliver the best experiences for our users.
The opportunity in front of us to become the biggest company in our space is massive; after all, were currently sitting in the fastest-growing consumer industry in the U.S. In just over two years, we reached a nearly $500 million valuation through some of the best investors in the game, including Mark Cuban, Kevin Durant, BlackRock, and SV Angel. We are many times larger now and our growth is not slowing down.
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 its 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