The Athletic

Staff Devops Engineer (Remote)

The Athletic$100K — $140K *
US-AnywhereRemote in United States
Information Technology
Less than 5 years of experience
Job Overview by Ladders

Qualifications

  • 4+ years of relevant engineering experience
  • Proficient in Terraform and CI/CD tools
  • Familiar with AWS services including Lambda, Elastic Beanstalk, ECS, Cloudfront, S3, and IAM
  • Experience maintaining high availability websites
  • Knowledge of Cloud CDN tools like Fastly and Cloudflare

Responsibilities

  • Develop new features optimized for performance and scalability
  • Participate actively in the scrum process, including planning and daily standups
  • Collaborate with engineering teams to meet technical requirements
  • Identify and address live bugs and work toward root cause fixes
  • Conduct manual and automated testing to validate work quality

Benefits

  • Medical, dental, and vision benefits
  • Flexible Spending Accounts (F.S.A.s)
  • Company-matching 401(k) plan
  • Paid vacation and sick days
  • Paid parental leave
  • Tuition reimbursement and professional development programs
Full Job Description
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.

About The Athletic

The Athletic is a subscription-based sports media company that provides ad-free coverage of various sports leagues and teams. The company was founded in 2016 by Alex Mather and Adam Hansmann, and has since expanded to cover over 250 professional and college sports teams across North America and Europe. The Athletic has received several awards for its journalism, including the 2019 Pulitzer Prize for Investigative Reporting. The company has raised over $139 million in funding from investors such as Founders Fund, Bedrock Capital, and Comcast Ventures.
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