Hiring: Staff Platform Engineer, Data Storage - Core Company: Fanatics Location: New York, NY Job Posted Time: 2026-09-10 12:54:15 Employment Type: Full-time Target Skills & Keywords : DynamoDB, Embedded Systems, GitOps, Infrastructure as Code, Kafka, Kubernetes, MongoDB, PostgreSQL, RDS, SQL, Terraform, Valkey About the job Experience: •8+ years of experience in platform, infrastructure, or database engineering, with deep hands-on production experience running PostgreSQL (RDS) at scale. Required Skills: •As a Staff Engineer, you will operate with a high degree of autonomy, leading complex database and streaming infrastructure initiatives, setting standards for reliability and performance, and acting as the go-to technical resource for schema design, query performance, and incident response across the teams you support. •Own database liaison responsibility for a portfolio of production PostgreSQL/RDS instances — query review, schema change approval, performance tuning, and incident triage for the teams built on top of them. •Operate and evolve our Kafka/MSK streaming platform: topic lifecycle management via GitOps, cluster health across environments, and CDC (Debezium) pipeline reliability. •Build and maintain self-service tooling that lets product teams provision database and streaming resources without a manual ticket queue. •Drive platform stability projects — operator/version upgrades, root-cause fixes for recurring operational issues, and proactive capacity/cost optimization across the database and streaming fleet. •Act as the technical escalation point for cross-team incidents where the root cause traces back to shared data infrastructure (replication lag, connection exhaustion, CPU/throughput issues). •Represent Platform Storage in cross-org infrastructure initiatives and standardization efforts. •Mentor engineers and participate in on-call rotations. Qualifications: •Strong experience operating Kafka (MSK or self-managed) in production, including topic management and CDC/event-streaming pipelines. •Strong SQL fluency — comfortable diagnosing query performance issues and reviewing schema changes for teams you don't sit inside of. •Infrastructure as Code expertise (Terraform). •Strong cross-team communicator; this role is equal parts infrastructure engineering and technical partnership with the teams you support. •MongoDB or DynamoDB operational experience. •Prior work on platform cost optimization initiatives at multi-cluster scale. •Exposure to regulated or high-availability environments (gaming, fintech, or similar). •For information about our benefits, please visit https://benefitsatfanatics.com/ Compensation: •$172,800 - $216,000 / year Interested candidates, please apply directly through the job posting on company's career page or try via AI auto apply on this platform. Don't miss this opportunity to join a forward-thinking team!