Fanatics is building a leading global digital sports platform. The company ignites the passions of global sports fans and maximizes the presence and reach for hundreds of sports partners globally by offering innovative products and services across Fanatics Commerce, Fanatics Collectibles, and Fanatics Betting & Gaming, allowing sports fans to Buy, Collect and Bet. Through the Fanatics platform, sports fans can buy licensed fan gear, jerseys, lifestyle and streetwear products, headwear, and hardgoods; collect physical and digital trading cards, sports memorabilia, and other digital assets; and bet as the company builds its Sportsbook and iGaming platform. Fanatics has an established database of over 100 million global sports fans, a global partner network with over 900 sports properties, including major national and international professional sports leagues, teams, players associations, athletes, celebrities, colleges, and college conferences, and over 2,000 retail locations, including its Lids retail business stores.
As a market leader with more than 18,000 employees, and hundreds of partners, suppliers, and vendors worldwide, we take responsibility for driving toward more ethical and sustainable practices. We are committed to building an inclusive Fanatics community, reflecting and representing society at every level of the business, including our employees, vendors, partners and fans. Fanatics is also dedicated to making a positive impact in the communities where we all live, work, and play through strategic philanthropic initiatives.
Fanatics as a business has grown leaps and bounds over the last few years and so has the data. It has never been more important to focus on efficiency, and productivity and improve our posture on data management, quality, governance, and compliance.
The emphasis on the platform-centric model which brings standardization and efficiency without compromising business agility and innovation is paramount. We are looking for an experienced Staff Engineer who can help us build the next-gen Big Data Platform at Fanatics.
As a Staff Big Data Engineer, you would be working on modern, large-scale big data technologies (largely OSS) to build data platforms for Fanstreams Platforms on AWS that will help the application data teams run their workloads.
What Will You Do?
* Build next-generation big data platforms for our ‘Fanstreams Platforms that will be used by all the data engineering teams @ Fanatics
* Support existing legacy infrastructure and provide tools to migrate to the newer orchestration platforms
* Build, operate and manage big data platforms infrastructure in a scalable and efficient way for data teams within Fanatics
* Support big data teams and increase productivity with automated services that setup, configure and monitor cloud infrastructure
* Build data cataloging infrastructure and metadata platform to enable data discovery, data observability, and federated governance
* Build house-keeping tools that enable automated data management and organization for efficient queries, and data purging on data lakes
* Provide technical leadership to the data engineering team on how data should be stored and processed more efficiently and quickly at scale
* Optimizing existing data platforms and infrastructure while exploring other technologies for our Fanstrems platforms.
* Work with data engineering teams and help with a reference implementation for different use cases
* Improve existing tools to deliver value to the users of the platform
What Are We Looking For?
10+ years of software development experience with
3+ years of experience in open-source BIG DATA technologies
Must have experience working on the cloud preferably AWS
Proficiency with OSS big data platforms with experience in batch and streaming technologies eg: Airflow, Spark, Spark Streaming, Iceberg, Flink, etc.
Proficiency in languages -Java and, or Scala
Strong hands-on experience in, Spark, Spark SQL, Spark Streaming, Data Modeling, and Schema design.
Hands-On experience on query engines like Trino/Presto, StarBurst, Athena, Redshift, Snowflake
Experience and deep understanding of traditional, NoSQL, and columnar databases
Experience in building scalable infrastructure to support stream, batch, and micro-batch data processing
Hands-on experience in managing cloud-based infrastructure
Experience on Airflow, Apache Iceberg is a plus
$163,800 – $227,500 a year
Total compensation offered is based on skills and relative industry experience.
Things We Care About
• Your career growth, your ideas, your work-life balance, and your well-being.
• Diversity and Inclusion
• Our Company Culture and Values
• Providing outstanding Company Perks and Benefits
Company Overview
Fanatics is building a leading global digital sports platform to ignite and harness the passions of fans and maximize the presence and reach for hundreds of partners globally. Optimizing these long-standing partnerships, a database of more than 80 million global consumers and a trusted, recognizable brand name, Fanatics is expanding beyond its position as a global leader for licensed sports merchandise to now becoming a next-gen digital sports platform, featuring an array of offerings for fans across the sports ecosystem.
The Fanatics family of companies currently includes Fanatics Commerce, a vertically-integrated licensed merchandise business that has changed the way fans purchase their favorite team apparel, jerseys, headwear and hardgoods through a tech-infused approach to making and quickly distributing fan gear in today’s 24/7 mobile-first economy; Candy Digital, a digital collectibles company that is partnering with prominent sports properties, including MLB and MLBPA, to build an official NFT ecosystem; Fanatics Collectibles, through Topps as a cornerstone of the business, building a new model for the collectibles and trading cards hobby with top leagues and players association partners; and Fanatics Betting & Gaming, a mobile betting, gaming and retail sportsbook platform. Fanatics’ partners include all major professional sports leagues (NFL, MLB, NBA, NHL, NASCAR, MLS, PGA) and hundreds of collegiate and professional teams, which include several of the biggest global soccer clubs.
As a market leader with more than 9,000 employees, and hundreds of partners, suppliers, and vendors worldwide, we take responsibility for driving toward more ethical and sustainable practices. We are committed to building an inclusive Fanatics community, reflecting and representing society at every level of the business, including our employees, vendors, partners and fans. Fanatics is also dedicated to making a positive impact in the communities where we all live, work, and play through strategic philanthropic initiatives.
At Fanatics, we’re a diverse, passionate group of employees aiming to ignite pride and passion in the fans we outfit, celebrate and support. We recognize that diversity helps drive and foster innovation, and through our IDEA program (inclusion, diversity, equality and advocacy) at Fanatics we provide employees with tools and resources to feel connected and engaged in who they are and what they do to support the ultimate fan experience.
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