Staff Site Reliability Engineer

FloSports is a world-class sports media company strategically positioned to be the essential destination for passionate sports fans delighting them with live event coverage breaking news highlights stats rankings and team and player profiles. We are growing Our Sports every day by continuing to invest in our ever-expanding ecosystem which consists of over a dozen sport verticals and hundreds of streaming partners. FloSports is creating the home for college conferences/leagues and sports like grappling hockey track & field racing cheer wrestling and more and we are looking for innovative and passionate people like you to help us!

THE ROLE:

At FloSports SRE is the team that acts as a force multiplier for our engineering organization. Our mission is to be the wind in the sails for our developers enabling them to ship features faster safer and with more confidence. We are a code-first group that believes in automating away toil and solving problems with software. We dont click buttons in a console; we write code build tools and manage our infrastructure through GitOps.

As a Staff SRE you will be a technical leader on a highly skilled and senior team. You will be a key driver of our architecture reliability and developer enablement strategy. This role requires a balance of high-impact individual contribution technical leadership and close collaboration with other Staff and Senior engineers to set the technical direction for the entire organization.

Our culture is built on principles of shared stability responsibility and pragmatism. We are guided by a philosophy of simplicity (if youve read youll fit right in). We believe its more fun to be competent and were looking for another expert to join our team.

RESPONSIBILITIES:

• Lead the technical architecture and execution of our landmark migration from a legacy GCP environment to a modern scalable infrastructure on AWS EKS.

• Architect design and drive our core infrastructure defining the patterns for Terraform and GitOps that the rest of the organization will follow.

• Champion and drive our SLO-driven culture setting the strategy for how we define measure and implement SLOs for critical user journeys guided by the four Golden Signals (Latency Traffic Errors and Saturation).

• Lead the design and development of critical tooling and automation in and Go to solve entire classes of problems for our developers.

• Lead the architectural evolution of our in-house K6-based load testing platform ensuring it can scale to meet future product demands.

• Act as a primary subject matter expert for our Istio service mesh driving its architecture adoption and optimization.

• Spearhead and own high-priority initiatives including the development of agentic workflows and intelligent automation for SRE domains like proactive scaling and automated remediation.

Act as a technical leader by participating in our blameless on-call rotation mentoring other engineers through complex incidents and ensuring all post-mortems lead to systemic long-term improvements.

KNOWLEDGE SKILLS AND ABILITIES:

• Extensive Experience: 8-10 years in SRE DevOps or Software Engineering with a proven track record of operating at a Staff level.

• Proven Technical Leadership: You have a history of mentoring other senior engineers influencing technical direction across multiple teams and leading large-scale projects to completion.

• Expert Coder: You are a polyglot with deep expertise in languages like or Go and a history of building and maintaining critical automation and services.

• Kubernetes Architect: You have an expert-level architectural understanding of Kubernetes (EKS preferred) including networking custom controllers and control plane optimization.

• Infrastructure as Code Expert: You are a Terraform expert who has designed and implemented large-scale reusable and secure IaC frameworks not just consumed them.

• Observability Architect: You have designed and implemented observability strategies from the ground up leveraging platforms like Datadog to create actionable SLOs and provide deep system insight.

• CI/CD Architect: You have designed built and scaled complex CI/CD systems (ideally with GitHub Actions and self-hosted runners) that are used by an entire engineering organization.

Expert Systems Thinker: You can decompose highly ambiguous complex cross-functional problems into solvable parts and lead the technical solution from concept to production.

BONUS

• Agentic Systems & Intelligent Automation: You have successfully designed and deployed agentic systems or other forms of intelligent automation to solve SRE problems and can speak to the tangible results.

• Architectural Leadership in a large-scale cloud migration (e.g. GCP to AWS).

• Performance Testing: Deep experience building or scaling custom load testing frameworks especially with K6.

• Istio Expertise: Deep practical experience managing Istio in a large multi-tenant production environment.

• Familiarity with serverless architectures especially SST.

• Experience orchestrating the deprecation and removal of legacy configuration management systems.

OUR COMMITMENT TO DIVERSITY:

At FloSports we are bonded by our passion for sports and our purpose to unite communities around experiences that finally give underserved sports the love they deserve. We recognize the need to build a company that seeks out embraces and celebrates our individual differences ideas and talent. FloSports is committed to the pursuit of a fair equal and inclusive workplace where everyone is given the opportunity to grow to their fullest potential.

OUR BENEFITS:

• Recognized three years in a row as a Top Workplace by the Austin-American Statesman

• Flexibility at work - you can take control of your profession and personal schedule

• All-hands events hosted in beautiful Austin Texas

• Annual equity awards for all top performers

• Competitive and comprehensive medical dental and vision plans

• Peace of mind through company-paid short-term disability long-term disability and life insurance

• Generous 401(K) company match vested immediately

• Progressive parental leave policies

• Flexible paid time off

• Hack-a-thons and a full calendar of team-building and social events

• Company donation to youth teams and leagues that our employees coach

• Stocked snack bar catered lunch and breakfast tacos every week

Required Experience:

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