Underdog Fantasy is hiring a
Staff Cloud Engineer

Summary

The job is for a Staff Cloud Engineer at Underdog, a fast-growing sports gaming company. The role involves building and determining the interoperability of their Kubernetes footprint, working cross-functionally to enable backend teams, optimizing architecture for resiliency and recoverability, deploying Kubernetes clusters, defining a technology stack, creating tooling to automate maintenance, and operating the environments.

Requirements

• Skilled engineer who pushes the envelope and knows ‘good’ gets us there, but ‘great’ is what we continuously strive for
• Lends expertise and contributes to the success of the team to foster interpersonal and individual professional growth
• Open to feedback and eager to collaborate with other developers to accomplish tasks at hand
• Excellent communication, analytical, and problem solving skills with engineers, compliance, and IT
• Ability to analyze and make technical recommendations that minimize spend in cloud environments
• Deep understanding of Linux and the command line
• 8+ years experience with CI systems (Jenkins, GitHub Actions, CircleCI, etc)
• 8+ years hand-ons experience with AWS
• 6+ years experience working with cloud object storage (S3, Google Cloud Storage)
• 6+ years experience working with Kubernetes
• 6+ years working with Relational Databases (Postgres, MySQL, etc)
• 5+ years experience building custom roles and managing service accounts in IAM

Responsibilities

• Work cross-functionally to enable backend teams to develop confidence in how their applications will interoperate and perform across data centers
• Continuous optimization of our architecture for resiliency and recoverability to ensure business continuity
• Own the deployment of Kubernetes clusters to cloud providers and colocation data centers
• Define a technology stack to facilitate interoperability and discoverability of services deployed across data centers and regions
• Create tooling to automate maintenance and effectively operate the environments

Preferred Qualifications

• Experience with CDN providers like Cloudflare and Fastly
• Experience with AWS Outpost and Direct Connect
• Experience building out multi-data center deployment in 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