Platform Engineering Lead, Genius Sports
DevSecOps
1-3 days a week in office
Sports data and technology company
Job no longer available
Sports data and technology company
1001+ employees
Job no longer available
1-3 days a week in office
1001+ employees
Company mission
To be the must-have digital technology partner for all leagues, sports content distributors, sportsbooks, and brands.
Role
Who you are
- Proven experience in leading and line managing technical teams, with strong mentoring and leadership skills
- Technical expertise in Operating Systems, Networking, Data Structures, Databases, and Caching Technologies
- Experience in conducting detailed postmortems, hardening systems, and deploying fault-tolerant systems at scale
- Technical writing skills
- Automation of repetitive tasks using scripting languages (Bash, Python, Powershell, etc.)
- Expert-level knowledge of AWS best practices and common services
- Expert-level knowledge of at least one infrastructure-as-code language (e.g., Terraform, CloudFormation)
- Detailed knowledge of building observable systems and understanding the fundamentals of cohesive dashboard design
- Detailed knowledge of build systems and building containerized applications
- Understanding of continuous delivery principles, including feature-switching, canary releases, and CI/CD pipelines
- Understanding of core security principles and their application in continuous delivery systems
- Flexibility to work on all areas of the service stack, including front-end, back-end, and infrastructure
- Practical knowledge of at least one programming language (C++, C#, Java, JS, Kotlin, Python, PHP, Golang)
- Knowledge of container orchestration systems such as Kubernetes or ECS
- Familiarity with messaging and asynchronous communication technologies
Desirable
- Knowledge and interest in sports
- Knowledge of testing methodology and designing high-quality testing suites resilient to changes in implementation
- Understanding of the principles of good software design, including awareness of core concepts such as information hiding, abstraction, module design, cohesion, and coupling
- Experience in capturing and exposing productivity signals to the engineering team
What the job involves
- As the Platform Team Lead for the platform team, you will engage in the full software life-cycle while leading and managing the platform team. Your primary responsibilities will include:
- Leading and line managing the platform team, fostering a collaborative and high-performing environment
- Providing technical leadership and guidance to the platform team, ensuring the successful delivery of projects
- Supporting achieving the business goals of the division, collaborating closely with the rest of the Engineering Leadership team for the division
- Working closely with the DevSecOps Director, the Platform Team Lead plays a pivotal role in orchestrating initiatives that foster uniformity and strategic coherence across the entire organisation
- Overseeing the maintenance and development of build systems, CI/CD pipelines, and cloud-infrastructure
- Ensuring the security of cloud-hosted systems and implementing security checks for new code entering production environments
- Developing and maintaining the observability stack for production services, covering alerting, metrics, logging, and dashboard creation
- Conducting constructive peer reviews of features and contributing to good reviewee hygiene
- Monitoring, maintaining, and troubleshooting systems owned by the platform team, including retrospectives, live-support, bug-fixes, and security improvements
- Measurement of productivity signals, such as cycle time and deployment frequency
- Maintenance and evolution of technical documentation (guides, runbooks, RCA/post-mortems, etc.)
- Mentoring and coaching engineers within the platform team and across multiple disciplines
- Participating in and improving agile ceremonies, including planning, grooming, retrospectives, and stand-ups for sprints and planning increments
Salary benchmarks
Our take
Genius Sports is a sports data and technology provider that acquires precise data about worldwide sports events. It then delivers data in the form of video streaming and integrity services to the sports, betting, and media ecosystem in order to empower them to create unique fan experiences.
The company differentiates itself through the fact that it has exclusive rights to access the official data of its over 240k covered events, being the official provider of critical data about these events. Since launching they have become the trusted partner of over 400 organisations such as NFL, NBA, FIFA, EPL, and NASCAR.
Genius Sports operates in a competitive field, with the likes of Sportradar and Stats Perform. However, the company's range of strategic acquisitions, partnerships, dMY Technology Group merger, and its impressive NYSE valuation have further increased its stake in this competitive industry.
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Employee endorsements
Opportunities to learn
"There are so many intricacies in sports and sports strategy, that I'm always learning at Genius. And the opportunity to work on sports models for..."
Funding (1 round)
Oct 2015
$12.5m
GROWTH EQUITY VC
Total funding: $12.5m
Company benefits
- Annual leave allowance
- Skills training
- Fitness & wellbeing programme
- Work from home opportunities
- Health insurance
- Workcation (1 month working from anywhere worldwide)
- Volunteer Day
- World Mental Health Day off
- Christmas-New Year off
Company values
- One team - We use our collective intelligence to work towards shared goals. We never let egos get in the way. We look out for each other and communicate actively and openly
- Being brave - We think big and act boldly. We set ambitious goals that push boundaries and inspire us. We're obsessed with revolutionizing sports
- Driving change - We have a growth mindset. We seize opportunities that fuel our ambition. We go all in to make those opportunities a success
Company HQ
Soho, London, UK
Articles
Leadership
Mark Locke
(CEO)Under Mark’s leadership, Genius has grown exponentially to become one of the world’s largest sports data and technology companies.
People progressing
Katie joined in 2019 as a Legal Assistant in London. She combined two years of study with her role to qualify as a solicitor and is now based in NYC as a Foreign Legal Counsel - Regulatory Licensing.
Diversity, Equity & Inclusion at Genius Sports
- As well as having specific policies, practices, and training in place, we also operate a dedicated ‘Diversity & Inclusion Action Group’ of volunteers from all levels and areas of the business. This Group plays a key role in turning ideas into actions, and our volunteers have created and run original initiatives increasing awareness and understanding of issues including unconscious bias, racial equality, and neurodiversity across our business.
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