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Staff Infrastructure Engineer - Data Platform

Underdog is a fast-growing, pre-IPO sports technology company building consumer-facing fantasy sports, betting, and prediction products. We're hiring a Staff Infrastructure Engineer for our Data Platform to scale real-time pipelines, enable streaming from core Postgres systems, drive a migration from Datastream to a queuing architecture, and help plan a cloud migration that supports data engineering, pricing, and ML use cases.

Skills

  • Extensive production experience designing and operating distributed, real-time systems
  • Deep hands-on knowledge of Kubernetes, Kafka/Kinesis, and Terraform
  • Systems programming experience in Golang and C++
  • Cloud-agnostic infrastructure strategy across GCP and AWS
  • Experience building testing frameworks and integrating them into CI/CD pipelines
  • Strong networking fundamentals and performance tuning experience

Responsibilities

  • Design and implement real-time data pipelines (Kafka/Kinesis or similar) to support data engineering and ML use cases
  • Enable streaming from core app Postgres databases and execute migration off Datastream toward queuing-based architecture
  • Define and drive cloud migration plan from GCP to AWS using cloud-agnostic approaches
  • Build load-testing frameworks to validate autoscaling and stress test pricing systems
  • Integrate testing and validation frameworks into CI/CD pipelines to ensure release robustness
  • Collaborate with Pricing Engineering and Data Engineering to create a 6–12 month technical roadmap
  • Modularize Terraform and other infrastructure-as-code to support multi-team consumption and consistency

Education

  • Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or related field, or equivalent practical experience
  • Advanced degree (MS/PhD) preferred but not required

Benefits

  • Unlimited PTO for full-time employees (with scheduling expectations around NFL season)
  • 16 weeks fully paid parental leave
  • $500 home office allowance
  • Connected virtual-first culture with distributed workforce
  • Company-paid health, dental, and vision options; FSA
  • 5% 401(k) match
  • Pre-IPO equity grants
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Underdog Fantasy is one of the fastest-growing sports companies on the market. Founded by a team of industry veterans, Underdog is bringing fun, approachable contests and games to the masses. We’re lo...oking to innovate an already exciting space ...

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