What You'll Work On
Build SDKs & Developer Abstractions
You'll design and maintain the internal libraries and SDKs that make it easy for engineering
teams to instrument their services, build reliable workflows, and interact with platform
capabilities — without needing to understand the underlying complexity. Our primary
language is Go, with legacy SDK support across Java, Python, Node.js, and .NET.
Own & Operate Production Platforms
You'll take end-to-end ownership of the platforms your team runs — from writing the code
to deploying and operating it in production. Our stack spans observability tooling(OpenTelemetry, Grafana Cloud, Grafana Loki), logging pipelines (Kafka,
Elasticsearch), workflow orchestration (Temporal), and security access control
(SpiceDB, Okta). Infrastructure runs on Kubernetes, managed with Terraform, ArgoCD,
and Kustomize.
Improve the Developer Experience
You'll think beyond your immediate platform and consider how your work impacts the
engineers who depend on it. That means contributing to CI/CD pipelines, improving
internal tooling, writing great documentation, and advocating for platform patterns that
reduce friction across the org.
What We're Looking For
Required
• 5+ years of software engineering experience, with significant hands-on coding in
production environments
• Strong proficiency in Go — this is our primary language and you'll write a lot of it
• Solid experience with Kubernetes — deploying, operating, and troubleshooting
workloads in production
• Experience with observability tooling — OpenTelemetry, distributed tracing,
structured logging, or metrics pipelines
• Familiarity with CI/CD practices and tools (ArgoCD, GitHub Actions, or similar)
• Infrastructure-as-code experience, ideally with Terraform
• Strong engineering fundamentals: clean code, testing, code review, documentation
Nice to Have
• Experience with Temporal or other workflow orchestration platforms
• Hands-on experience with Kafka and/or Elasticsearch
• Familiarity with SpiceDB, Zanzibar-style authorization models, or identity
platforms like Okta
• Experience building and maintaining developer-facing SDKs or internal libraries
• Exposure to Java, Python, Node.js, or .NET (helpful for maintaining legacy SDKs)• Experience with Grafana Cloud or Grafana Loki
What Makes You a Great Fit
• You're a software engineer at heart who happens to love platform and infrastructure
problems
• You think carefully about the developer experience and how your platforms affect
other teams
• You're comfortable owning systems end-to-end — from writing the code to running
it in production
• You can work across a broad surface area without losing depth
• You communicate clearly and collaborate well in a distributed team environment
Why Join Us
• High ownership and technical autonomy — you'll have real impact on systems used
by the entire engineering org
• A team that values clean code, solid architecture, and thoughtful platform design
• Modern, well-scoped stack with interesting engineering challenges across
observability, workflow, and access control
• Collaborative culture with a strong emphasis on developer experience
Fanatics Compensation & Benefits Highlights
The following summarizes recurring compensation and benefits themes identified from responses generated by popular LLMs to common candidate questions about Fanatics and has not been reviewed or approved by Fanatics.
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Strong & Reliable Incentives — Incentives like annual bonuses and overtime opportunities are common, supporting higher total compensation especially in corporate roles. Seasonal premiums and performance bonuses are also cited across roles.
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Healthcare Strength — Multiple medical plan options, mental-health services, and wellness programs are highlighted as core offerings. Additional supports like HSAs/FSAs and condition management further strengthen the health package.
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Parental & Family Support — Paid maternity and paternity leave, fertility benefits, adoption assistance, and gender-affirmation coverage are explicitly included. Childcare support and backup care resources are also referenced.
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What We Do
Transforming the licensed sports industry through an innovative vertical e-commerce model that allows Fanatics to quickly design, manufacture and distribute high-quality fan gear across retail channels, better serving the real-time expectations of leagues, teams, fans and retailers in today’s mobile-first, on-demand culture.
Why Work With Us
You don't have to love sports to work here (though we love sports fanatics as well!). Fanatics is an industry leading, multi-billion dollar, international, privately held company with a casual, lofty space in the heart of Downtown Boulder. We have the advantages of a startup, without the pitfalls.
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