Staff Software Engineer - Trading Platform Operations

Overview

JOB DESCRIPTION

As Fanatics Betting & Gaming (FBG) accelerates Fanatics' mission to build the ultimate digital sports platform, the Staff Software Engineer role is foundational to empowering our software engineering teams. Joining our OddsFactory division, you'll play a critical role in enhancing the productivity, reliability, security and scalability of our engineering practices.

Trading Platform Operations is the engineering force-multiplier that keeps our trading systems observably performant, production-hardened, and event-ready—especially during peak sporting moments. You’ll lead architecture and delivery for reliability and operational tooling across the trading stack, unifying telemetry, resilience, and readiness so product teams can move fast with confidence

Embrace this opportunity to shape the backbone of Fanatics Betting & Gaming’s cutting-edge risk & trading platform, driving excellence in software delivery and operational efficiency while revolutionizing fan engagement.

You Will

• Own team architecture for ops & reliability across trading services—designing simple, scalable patterns for health, performance, and resilience (SLOs, error budgets, graceful degradation).
• Engineer event readiness for big game days: capacity modeling, load & chaos testing, traffic drills, failover playbooks, and rapid triage pathways.
• Advance observability (metrics/logs/traces, profiling), unify golden dashboards/alerts, and drive “diagnose in minutes” outcomes.
• Build self-service operational tooling (runbooks, one-click remediation, circuit breakers, feature flags) that reduce toil and shorten MTTR.
• Partner deeply with trading & product to model operational risk, set priorities, and convert learnings from incidents into platform standards.
• Mentor and multiply - lead design reviews, coach engineers across teams, and set exemplary standards in operational excellence.
• Stay abreast of emerging technologies and industry trends, advocating for adoption of new tools and techniques that align with our platform strategy.
• Participate in an on-call rotation, ensuring platform stability and providing critical support for operational incidents.
• Occasionally travel for essential offsite meetings, special events, or collaborative team sessions.

Required Qualifications

• 7+ years of proven experience in software engineering roles shipping and operating high-scale, real-time systems - ideally .NET services in Azure
• Depth in observability, performance engineering, incident response, and resilience patterns; strong debugging across distributed services (Datadog experience preferred)
• Hands-on with Azure and core trading platform tech (Service Fabric, kubernetes, Cosmos DB, SQL Server, Event Hubs, Azure Storage, etc..)
• Strong software engineering background - you write clean code and have experience engineering solutions to complex problem statements
• Excellent influencing, problem-solving, and analytical skills, with demonstrated ability to partner closely with engineering teams.
• Highly outcome-oriented, data-driven, and capable of balancing quality with productivity.
• Strong communication skills, able to effectively collaborate across international teams.
• Positive and flexible attitude, comfortable working in a fast-paced environment and embracing new initiatives.

Preferred Qualifications

• Experience building operational toolkits (load/chaos, game-day tooling, remediation bots).
• Proficiency with IaC & CI/CD (Terraform/Terragrunt, Azure DevOps pipelines); automation-first mindset.
• Background in event-driven systems and market/price-sensitive workloads.
• Familiarity or previous experience within the sports betting industry or strong interest in sports.
• Experience working with cross-functional teams in fast-paced or start-up environments.

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

_The expected salary range for this role is based on job-related knowledge, skills, and experience. This role is eligible for the Fanatics Betting and Gaming annual bonus program and an equity award. *Salary range is listed in USD; actual salary will vary based on location. *Salary Range: $144,000 - $282,000 per year (actual salary will be determined in part by a successful candidate’s geographic location). In addition to base salary, bonus, and equity, full-time employees are eligible for Medical, Dental, Vision, 401K, paid time off, and other benefits like GymPass, Pet Insurance, Family Care Benefits, and more. We’ll also give you $700 to set up your home office!