Build and maintain internal infrastructure tools and services to improve product availability and engineering productivity. Implement infrastructure with Terraform, define scaling, alerting, and monitoring, participate in agile ceremonies, triage and fix live issues, and validate work through manual and automated testing.
About Us
Powered by one of the largest global newsrooms in sports media, The Athletic brings sports fans the most comprehensive stories about the teams, sports and athletes they love. The Athletic’s newsroom of 500+ full-time staff delivers in-depth coverage of hundreds of professional and college teams across more than 47 North American markets and all 20 football clubs in the English Premier League, as well as many Championship clubs.
About the Role
Our Infrastructure team is responsible for building internal tools and services to improve our product availability and our Engineering productivity. Engineers in this team are passionate about performance, delivery and metrics. As an infrastructure engineer, you will collaborate closely with multiple engineering teams to help develop and improve our internal tools and services. You’ll be implementing new infrastructure using Terraform and help define our scaling, alerting and monitoring. We have lots of fresh ideas and are excited for you to join us to help us build the best sports media app in the world.
This role is remote in the US or Canada only.
Responsibilities
- Develop new features based on specifications, ensuring to always optimize for scalability and performance.
- Contribute to and engage in our scrum process through sprint planning, review, retrospectives and daily standups.
- Understand the technical requirements of new requests and work with other engineers to ensure the end result matches expectations of building a world class product.
- Fix live bugs and triage the issue with company peers so the root cause can be identified. We can patch live issues but we always go back to fix the bigger problem.
- Validate the quality of your work through manual and automated testing. We believe engineers own their code throughout the whole lifecycle of development until it’s live, giving them visibility and ownership over their work.
Requirements
- 4+ years of relevant engineering experience.
- Knowledge of Terraform and CI/CD tools.
- Knowledge of AWS products:
- Lambda
- Elastic Beanstalk
- ECS
- Cloudfront
- S3
- IAM
- Experience working with high availability websites
- Experience with Cloud CDN tools like Fastly and Cloudflare.
For roles in the U.S., dependent on your role, you may be eligible for variable pay, such as an annual bonus and restricted stock. Benefits may include medical, dental and vision benefits, Flexible Spending Accounts (F.S.A.s), a company-matching 401(k) plan, paid vacation, paid sick days, paid parental leave, tuition reimbursement and professional development programs.
For roles outside of the U.S., information on benefits will be provided during the interview process.
We are excited to learn more about you and your experience. To keep our hiring process as fair and authentic as possible, we ask that you submit your own work and not use GenAI tools to generate substantive content during the application and interview process. If you are a candidate for a technical role, we will let you know what specific tools you are permitted to use for your technical assessment.
The Athletic Media Company is an equal opportunity employer and enthusiastically encourages people from all backgrounds and experiences to apply. The Athletic will consider all applicants without regard to race, religion, color, national origin, ancestry, physical and/or mental disability, medical condition, genetic information, marital status, sex, gender, gender identity, gender expression, transgender status, age, sexual orientation, military or veteran status, or any other protected characteristic under applicable law.
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