Engineering Manager

Summary

Join Underdog, the fastest-growing sports gaming company, and help build the future of sports fan engagement. This unique opportunity allows you to establish best practices from the ground up, contributing to a rapidly growing company in a rapidly expanding industry. You will lead a team in building scalable infrastructure and site reliability engineering, establishing operational excellence. This role requires significant experience in infrastructure and team management within a fast-paced environment. Underdog offers a competitive salary, equity, generous benefits including unlimited PTO and parental leave, and a supportive remote-first culture.

Requirements

• Have at least 8 years of experience in Infrastructure, site reliability engineering, and/or developer tools teams, and 3 years managing the teams
• Be experienced in building secure, highly available AWS infrastructure and familiar with on-prem Data Center infrastructure operations/setup
• Be highly focused on delivering results for internal and external stakeholders in a fast-paced, entrepreneurial environment
• Demonstrate a high level of ownership, bias for action, and a desire to empower individuals on the team to perform at their best
• Possess strong familiarity with distributed computing, networks, databases, caches, data streaming technologies in cloud environments, with hands-on experience in provisioning infrastructure and managing infrastructure via IaC tools (i.e. Terraform, CDK, Pulumi, CloudFormation, etc)
• Have a track record of delivering scalable and innovative solutions, leveraging cutting-edge technologies for observability, incident-response, cloud and infrastructure management

Responsibilities

• Build a roadmap to delivering scalable infrastructure and site reliability engineering
• Establish best practices to achieve operational excellence in infrastructure security, availability, resiliency, sustainability and adoption

Preferred Qualifications

• Have experience working with data scientists to deploy complex ML models to public cloud and build low latency inference systems to a production environment
• Have experience leading a team in a remote-first and fast-paced environment
• Have experience working in highly regulated industries

Benefits

• Unlimited PTO (we're extremely flexible with the exception of the first few weeks before & into the NFL season)
• 16 weeks of fully paid parental leave
• A $500 home office allowance
• A connected virtual first culture with a highly engaged distributed workforce
• 5% 401k match, FSA, company paid health, dental, vision plan options for employees and dependents