Flosports
Staff Data Platform Engineer
Remote, United States · Staff+
Sponsorship not specifiedDetected 5 days ago
TypeScriptNode.jsDistributed SystemsBackend DevelopmentCode ReviewSQLNoSQLDynamoDBAWSGCPCloud PlatformsTerraformCI/CDPlatform EngineeringRESTData EngineeringData ScienceLeadershipCommunicationProblem Solving
About the role
- The Staff Data Platform Engineer role at Flo blends Data Engineering, Backend Engineering, and Cloud Engineering into a unique and impactful position.
Responsibilities
- Lead the architecture and design of complex, large-scale distributed systems
- Design, develop, and maintain scalable, fault-tolerant microservices for both real-time and batch data processing
- Build and maintain high-performance REST APIs with a focus on scalability, reliability, and maintainability
- Design and implement data models and queries for efficient storage and retrieval across SQL and NoSQL databases
- Lead data quality initiatives to ensure consistency, accuracy, and reliability of data across the platform
- Collaborate with cross-functional teams to translate platform requirements into effective technical solutions
- Drive technical standards and best practices for code quality, testing, and observability across engineering teams
- Mentor and provide technical guidance to engineers through code reviews, design discussions, and direct support
- Hack-a-thons and a full calendar of team-building and social events
Requirements
- Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Computer Engineering, Software Engineering, Information Systems, Data Science, or a related field or foreign equivalent
- Any experience with all of the following:
- Experience with AWS serverless technologies (e.g., SST, CDK, Terraform), NoSQL databases (e.g., DynamoDB), stream processing (e.g., Kinesis, DynamoDB Streams);
- Occasional travel to Austin, Texas HQ (once or twice a year) is required.
Skills
- Minimum 10 years of industry experience with a focus on backend and data engineering
- Hands-on experience with CI/CD pipelines and deployment automation;
- A track record of writing high-quality, maintainable code across multiple services and teams;
- Excellent communication, analytical, and problem-solving skills;
- Ability to adapt to a rapidly changing environment with evolving or ambiguous requirements;
- Experience deploying and managing applications on public cloud platforms (e.g., AWS, GCP).
Compensation
- Annual equity awards for all top performers
Benefits
- Annual equity awards for all top performers
- Competitive and comprehensive medical, dental and vision plans
- Peace of mind through company-paid short-term disability, long-term disability and life insurance
- Progressive parental leave policies
- Flexible paid time off
Company info
- FloSports is a world-class sports media company strategically positioned to be the essential destination for passionate sports fans, delighting them with live event coverage, breaking news, highlights, stats, rankings, and team and player profiles.
- We are growing Our Sports every day by continuing to invest in our ever-expanding ecosystem, which consists of over a dozen sport verticals and hundreds of streaming partners.
- FloSports is creating the home for college conferences/leagues and sports like grappling, hockey, track & field, racing, cheer, wrestling, and more, and we are looking for innovative and passionate people like you to help us!
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