Staff DevOps Engineer
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Job Location:
Philadelphia, PA - USA
Monthly Salary:
$ 180000 - 220000
Posted on:
2 days ago
Vacancies:
1 Vacancy
Job Summary
Fliff unpacks sports gaming into social free-to-play games for all types of sports fans. Weve built a social sports gaming experience that allows users to compete for leaderboard positioning to achieve badges and build their status within the game.
We are pioneering play-for-fun sports gaming with our flagship social sportsbook experience that includes sweepstakes promotions and loyalty rewards. We provide sports fans with fun engaging and free-to-play alternatives to real money gaming.
Who Were Looking For
Fliff is looking for a Staff DevOps Engineer who is passionate about building scalable reliable and secure platforms that power real-time high-traffic user experiences. You thrive in a fast-paced environment excel at solving complex distributed systems problems and enjoy partnering closely with Product Engineering and Security teams. You bring a platform mindset an automation-first philosophy and the ability to drive architectural decisions that improve engineering velocity and system reliability.
What Youll Do
- Architect build and operate highly available high-performance infrastructure that supports large volumes of real-time traffic especially during peak sports windows.
- Lead the design and development of internal platforms tooling and automated workflows that accelerate engineering productivity.
- Own and improve observability (metrics logs traces) monitoring and alerting to ensure fast detection and resolution of issues.
- Drive incident response root-cause analysis and reliability improvements across the engineering organization.
- Enhance and maintain our Kubernetes-based platform including Helm charts multi-environment pipelines cluster upgrades and operational hardening.
- Implement and evolve security best practices around IAM network architecture secrets management and infrastructure governance.
- Build and maintain CI/CD pipelines that support safe rapid and stable deployments.
- Partner with engineering leadership on capacity planning cost optimization and infrastructure roadmap planning.
- Mentor and guide engineers across teams influencing architectural direction and DevOps best practices.
- Champion Infrastructure-as-Code GitOps workflows and automation as the default mode of operating.
Required Skills & Experience
- 7 years of SRE/DevOps/Cloud Infrastructure experience supporting production systems at scale.
- Proven experience running distributed systems and microservices in high-traffic or high-availability environments.
- Deep knowledge of Kubernetes Helm and cloud-native architecture (preferably AWS).
- Strong proficiency in Go or another backend programming language.
- Exposure to PostgreSQL Redis DynamoDB or Cassandra performance tuning in a production environment.
- Deep familiarity with event-driven systems streaming pipelines or messaging platforms such as Kinesis Kafka Pub/Sub or RabbitMQ.
- Advanced hands-on experience with Terraform or a comparable IaC solution.
- Strong practical understanding of observability stacks (Datadog Prometheus Grafana OpenTelemetry etc.).
- Experience implementing SLOs SLIs error budgets and reliability-driven engineering practices.
- Expertise with CI/CD pipelines and GitOps workflows.
- Solid foundation in security fundamentals: IAM network policies workload hardening secrets management.
- Demonstrated leadership in technical decision-making cross-functional influence and on-call/incident management.
- Excellent communication skills and the ability to work effectively across product engineering and leadership teams.
- Ability to influence org-wide DevOps maturity champion best practices and drive standards across multiple teams.
Nice to Have:
- Background in infrastructure cost modeling and optimization particularly in high-scale microservices environments.
- Experience running workloads requiring low latency or real-time processing (gaming sports fintech ad tech streaming).
- Prior involvement in PCI SOC2 GDPR or similar compliance initiatives.
- Experience mentoring or guiding cross-functional engineering groups (backend teams mobile teams data teams).
Benefits:
- The annual salary for this role ranges from $180000 to $220000 depending on experience and background.
- Unlimited/ Flexible Time Off: Flexible vacation policy
- Health benefits with 100% paid premiums* for medical dental and vision plans for employees and dependents plus an on-demand healthcare concierge.
- Pre-tax savings plans for healthcare with up to a $500 annual employer contribution to the HSA (if enrolled in the HSA medical plan).
- Employee-sponsored 401(k) to help reach your financial goals.
- Fully remote work environment.
- Generous parental leave.
- Professional development opportunities in a dynamic global setting.
Perks:
- Work Remotely.
- $500 work-from-home stipend Equipment & Accessories.
- Opportunity for professional development in a dynamic global setting.
- A supportive collaborative and knowledge-driven workplace.
- An engaging and challenging role with the freedom to innovate and develop effective solutions.
We are a multinational company with our headquarters based in Philadelphia and offices in New York Austin and Sofia Bulgaria. Wherever we are in the world we pride ourselves on being a close-knit focused team that is welcoming and friendly and the work that we do is always interesting and rewarding. Wherever we are in the world we pride ourselves on being a close-knit focused team that is:
Welcoming and Friendly
We want to reflect the diversity of the cities we serve. By creating an inclusive culture where everyone can thrive well make Fliff better for employees and customers alike.
Lively and Creative
We respect and value each others ideas experience and expertise. There is no such thing as a bad idea; only ideas that are executed and ideas that are discarded after consideration.
Stimulating and Rewarding
We know bright minds love a challenge and we understand your desire to see your hard work pay off. Well make sure your daily tasks align with your career ambitions as we grow together.
Equal Employment Opportunity Statement
Fliff is an equal-opportunity employer. We celebrate diversity and are committed to creating an inclusive environment for all employees. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race color religion gender gender identity or expression sexual orientation national origin genetics disability age or veteran status.
Join Our Team!
If youre ready to be part of an exciting innovative and dynamic team apply now to help shape the future of sports gaming with Fliff.
IMPORTANT NOTICE: The privacy and security of applicant information is paramount and we take fraud attempts very seriously. Please note that Fliff will never ask for payment or personal financial information during the application of our legitimate job opportunities can be found on our official career site ( Please be cautious of communications and links that come from non-company email addresses (@) social media messaging platforms or unsolicited phone calls.
Required Experience:
Staff IC
Key Skills
- Computer Science
- Docker
- Kubernetes
- Python
- VMware
- C/C++
- Go
- System Architecture
- gRPC
- OS Kernels
- Perl
- Distributed Systems
About Company
Fliff is a new sports prediction experience that is social and rewarding. Play for free and earn rewards to experience the sweat without the financial risk!
