Staff Data Platform Engineer
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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. This position is expected to design, build, and deliver reliable, scalable, and efficient data services that form the backbone of Flo's next-generation fan experiences.
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
- Take end-to-end ownership of the software development lifecycle, including deployment, monitoring, and incident response.
- KNOWLEDGE, SKILLS AND ABILITIES:
- Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Computer Engineering, Software Engineering, Information Systems, Data Science, or a related field or foreign equivalent;
- Minimum 10 years of industry experience with a focus on backend and data engineering
- Any experience with all of the following:
- o Proven experience designing and operating distributed data systems using a micro-services
- architecture, with a solid understanding of scalability, fault tolerance, performance, and
- observability best practices;
- o Hands-on experience with CI/CD pipelines and deployment automation;
- o A track record of writing high-quality, maintainable code across multiple services and teams;
- o Strong leadership skills to guide, mentor, and support engineers while fostering a collaborative team culture;
- o Excellent communication, analytical, and problem-solving skills;
- o Ability to adapt to a rapidly changing environment with evolving or ambiguous requirements;
- o Demonstrated ability to work independently, take ownership of complex projects, and drive them to completion with minimal supervision;
- o Ability to leverage AI-powered tools and frameworks to enhance developer productivity, automate workflows, and optimize data-driven systems;
- o Experience with AWS serverless technologies (e.g., SST, CDK, Terraform), NoSQL databases (e.g., DynamoDB), stream processing (e.g., Kinesis, DynamoDB Streams);
- o Experience developing backend services using modern languages such as TypeScript and Node.js
- o Experience deploying and managing applications on public cloud platforms (e.g., AWS, GCP).
- OUR COMMITMENT TO DIVERSITY:
Benefits
Additional Information
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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