Principal DevOps Engineer

Who We Are

Love sports? Attracted to the startup hustle? This role might be perfect for you!

PrizePicks is the largest independently owned Daily Fantasy Sports (DFS) platform in North America. Centered around real-money more/less predictions, PrizePicks allows sports fans to play against the numbers rather than each other, and it is the simplest variety of daily fantasy sports with the widest breadth of sports coverage of any DFS operator. Boasting partnerships to date with the Atlanta Falcons, Atlanta Braves, and Miami Marlins, as well as Ghost Gaming, PrizePicks is currently the closest legal alternative to legal mobile sports betting in the majority of the United States. With an existing digital footprint covering more than 70 percent of the U.S. population, PrizePicks is the most accessible type of game for the masses. The company is headquartered in Atlanta, remote is an option for the immediacy of this position. If you would like to view our product, it can be found on the App Store and Google Play, as well as on the web at prizepicks.com.

About This Role

Our DevOps Engineers work in Engineering on the Infrastructure team to automate and integrate every component of our architecture to achieve scale, reliability, and performance. You will collaborate with other DevOps Engineers to architect, design, deploy, migrate, and support our infrastructure while providing guidance for best practices around things like logging, monitoring, alerting, and just general observability. We are looking for team mates who have a deep understanding of databases, pub/sub, event driven architecture, and networking/routing concepts.

If this resonates with you, join the hundreds of us building a shared vision for the future of sports entertainment.

Responsibilities Include

• Help design and implement the next generation of PrizePicks’s infrastructure
• Develop, document, communicate, and enforce cloud technology standards
• Automate and integrate everything from deployment pipeline to production
• Work closely with security to implement security controls to ensure enforcement of policies and procedures and advise on best practices
• Build tooling that empowers and enables Engineering workflows 
• Design and deliver enhancements to the CI/CD pipeline
• Deeply analyze platform performance and find areas to improve speed and scale
• Serve as a technical leader of infrastructure disciplines and help teach/coach others

Qualifications & Preferred Skills

• 7-10+ years of relevant work experience.
• Expert knowledge and experience in delivering cloud technologies at scale
• Extensive experience in configuration management, CI/CD tooling, infrastructure management, container methodologies, and Kubernetes
• Experience in implementing best of breed logging/monitoring/alerting strategies
• Strong networking experience
• Deep understanding of event driven architecture best practices with experience in things like Pulsar or Redis
• Unwavering commitment to automating all-the-things
• Experience working in a startup environment at a fast pace
• Extensive datacenter experience a big plus
• Proven track record of building large, geographically distributed scalable infrastructure in a programmatic way
• Passion for technology
• Ability to work in a collaborative function but also a self starter

Technical must haves:

• Extensive Linux experience
• Python or Ruby expertise 
• Experience with Terraform
• Experience in working with fundamental cloud technologies (not just AWS, GCP or Azure)
• Deep working knowledge of CI/CD tooling and configuration management tools

Benefits

In addition to your competitive salary, medical/dental/vision coverage plans and matching 401(k), we’ll shower you with perks including: 

• Break room with ping pong, end endless snacks and in-office lunch once a week
• Unlimited PTO to encourage a healthy work/life balance
• A modern work schedule focused on getting the job done well, not hours clocked
• Company and team outings, we encourage a tight-knit workplace
• Open office layout promotes collaboration, conversation and teamwork to drive results
• Significant opportunity for growth and career development

PrizePicks is an Equal Opportunity Employer. All applicants will be considered for employment without attention to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, veteran or disability status.