Note: The job is a remote job and is open to candidates in USA. Fanatics is building a leading global digital sports platform and is seeking a Senior Engineering Manager to lead their Platform Engineering team. This role involves owning technical delivery, team growth, and operational excellence while ensuring the platform effectively supports the company's software ecosystem.
Responsibilities
- Lead, grow, and coach a Platform Engineering team, hiring and developing engineers from junior through staff level
- Own roadmap delivery and technical quality for platform capabilities spanning cloud infrastructure, Kubernetes, CI/CD, observability, and developer tooling
- Champion a “platform as a product” mindset — treat internal developers as customers, gather feedback, and prioritize based on developer experience (DevEx) impact
- Own operational excellence for the team's services: on-call philosophy, incident response, and blameless post-mortems, fostering psychological safety after production incidents
- Evaluate build-vs-buy decisions for internal tooling versus third-party SaaS solutions
- Operate within a regulated environment — ensure delivery speed does not compromise compliance or security requirements (e.g., GLI, state/country betting & gaming regulations) in CI/CD and infrastructure changes
- Evaluate and help roll out AI-assisted engineering tools (e.g., AI coding assistants, log analysis) across the distributed team without compromising security
- Communicate platform health, roadmap, and outcomes clearly to engineering leadership and stakeholders using business and platform success metrics
Skills
- Proven experience directly managing platform engineering teams (not solely adjacent teams such as database enablement or generalist backend teams)
- Strong hands-on background with cloud infrastructure (AWS), Kubernetes, and CI/CD / release engineering, sufficient to credibly review architecture and technical proposals
- Demonstrated people-management strengths: coaching and mentorship, performance management, and fostering psychological safety
- Experience in building and communicating a multi-quarter strategic roadmap for a platform organization — translating business priorities and DevEx signals into a sequenced set of investments, and defending tradeoffs against competing stakeholder demands
- Experience in a regulated industry (e.g., betting & gaming, fintech) balancing delivery speed with compliance and security requirements
- FinOps experience — cost/complexity tradeoffs for large-scale Kubernetes environments
- Experience evaluating or rolling out AI-assisted developer tooling (e.g., GitHub Copilot, AI-driven log analysis) across an engineering organization
- Familiarity with core Platform Engineering languages and infrastructure at FBG: Python, Go, Terraform, Postgres/RDS, Kafka, Redis
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