The Staff DevOps Engineer will architect and operate infrastructure for high-traffic systems, drive automation, ensure observability, and mentor teams to improve DevOps practices.
Fliff unpacks sports gaming into social, free-to-play games for all types of sports fans. We've 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 We’re 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 You’ll 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 $180,000 to $220,000, 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, we’ll make Fliff better for employees and customers alike.
Lively and Creative
We respect and value each other’s 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. We’ll 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 you're ready to be part of an exciting, innovative, and dynamic team, apply now to help shape the future of sports gaming with Fliff.
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Top Skills
AWS
Cassandra
Datadog
DynamoDB
Go
Grafana
Helm
Kafka
Kinesis
Kubernetes
Opentelemetry
Postgres
Prometheus
Pub/Sub
RabbitMQ
Redis
Terraform
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