Description:

FloSports is a world-class sports media company focused on providing passionate sports fans with live event coverage, breaking news, highlights, stats, rankings, and team and player profiles.
The company is expanding its ecosystem, which includes over a dozen sports verticals and hundreds of streaming partners.
The Staff Site Reliability Engineer (SRE) will be a technical leader on a senior team, driving architecture, reliability, and developer enablement strategy.
The role emphasizes high-impact individual contributions, technical leadership, and collaboration with other engineers to set the technical direction for the organization.
The SRE team operates with a philosophy of shared stability responsibility and simplicity, focusing on automating toil and solving problems with software.
Responsibilities include leading the migration from a legacy GCP environment to AWS EKS, architecting core infrastructure, championing SLO-driven culture, developing tooling in Node.js and Go, and acting as a subject matter expert for Istio service mesh.

Requirements:

Candidates must have 8-10+ years of experience in SRE, DevOps, or Software Engineering, with a proven track record at a Staff level.
Proven technical leadership is required, including mentoring senior engineers and influencing technical direction across teams.
Candidates should be expert coders with deep expertise in languages like Node.js or Go, and a history of building and maintaining critical automation and services.
An expert-level understanding of Kubernetes, particularly EKS, is necessary, including networking and control plane optimization.
Candidates must be Terraform experts, having designed and implemented large-scale, reusable, and secure Infrastructure as Code frameworks.
Experience in designing and implementing observability strategies using platforms like Datadog is required.
Candidates should have experience in designing, building, and scaling complex CI/CD systems, ideally with GitHub Actions.
Strong systems thinking skills are essential, with the ability to decompose complex problems into solvable parts.

FloSports has been recognized as a Top Workplace for three consecutive years by the Austin-American Statesman.
The company offers flexibility at work, allowing employees to manage their professional and personal schedules.
Employees can participate in all-hands events hosted in beautiful Austin, Texas.
Annual equity awards are provided for all top performers.
Competitive and comprehensive medical, dental, and vision plans are available.
The company provides peace of mind through company-paid short-term disability, long-term disability, and life insurance.
A generous 401(K) company match is vested immediately.
Progressive parental leave policies are in place.
Flexible paid time off is offered to employees.
The company hosts hack-a-thons and a full calendar of team-building and social events.
FloSports makes donations to youth teams and leagues that employees coach.
Employees enjoy a stocked snack bar, catered lunch, and breakfast tacos every week.

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