Senior Platform Engineer, Genius Sports

• Willingness to learn and explore new technologies
• Ability to lead and execute on the DevOps/cloud engineering vision
• Technical expertise in networking, data structures, and cloud native technologies
• Technical writing skills
• Automation of repetitive tasks using scripting languages (Bash, Python, NodeJs, 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

• As a Senior DevOps Engineer, your responsibilities will include producing useful, economical, and best-of-breed solutions that can be picked up by development teams and DevOps engineers across the company
• This position is a perfect match for a person who enjoys developing innovative solutions to technical challenges with opportunities to contribute broadly in a dynamic and collaborative team-based environment
• First and foremost, build and scale the deployment architecture that powers Genius Sports products as we continue to grow
• Architect and implement cloud native solutions with infrastructure as code tooling
• Write code towards automation tooling and supporting DevOps deployment software
• Design and implement robust telemetry for all of the services Genius Sports operates
• Mentor and collaborate with engineers on other teams to promote DevOps best practices
• Design and development of new solutions to aid the development process and delivery
• Producing high quality, maintainable, monitored and tested infrastructure and solutions
• Troubleshooting and resolution of problems
• Be part of the core Platform team, fostering a collaborative and high-performing environment
• Providing technical leadership and guidance to other engineers, ensuring the successful delivery of projects
• Supporting achieving the business goals of the company, collaborating closely with the rest of the engineering teams
• 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 core 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 core Platform team, including retrospectives, live-support, bug-fixes, and security improvements
• 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, refining, retrospectives, and stand-ups for sprints and planning increments