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Senior Infrastructure Engineer (Remote)

Remote US
USD 150k - 165k
Terraform AWS
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About Us

The Athletic is a digital sports media company that brings true sports fans closer to the athletes, teams and leagues that captivate their attention. We serve a multi-faceted audience that craves a richer connection and understanding with immersive storytelling and a like-minded community of fans. Founded in 2016 and with major operational hubs in San Francisco, Los Angeles, London and Melbourne, we empower a truly global team of more than 600 creators and cover more than 250 professional sports and collegiate teams across the United States, Canada and the UK. Our newsroom has produced thousands of in-depth reports along with more than 120 podcasts and other forms of premium content. Put simply, The Athletic is at the center of a sports fan’s universe.


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.

The role is remote for candidates located in the United States 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.
  • The role is remote for candidates located in the United States or Canada only. 
The annual base salary range for this role is $150,000.00- $165,000.00 USD. The total compensation offered for this position may vary based on factors such as education, experience, skills, and location. It may also include non-cash rewards and benefits. The base salary range is subject to change and may be modified in the future.


The Athletic offers unique perks and benefits to all full-time employees based on their country of residence. Our comprehensive US benefits package includes:

- Highly competitive, employer-contributed medical, dental, vision, basic life and disability insurance plans.
- Savings accounts for medical, wellness, and childcare expenses.
- 401k retirement savings plan and employer match.
- Paid time off including paid sick leave, 12 paid holidays, 15 days of accrued vacation to start, and up to 20 weeks of Paid Parental Leave.

For international candidates: Our global benefits packages offer similar benefits and perks, competitive to the local market.

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.

Click here to review our Applicant Privacy Notice, which describes how and when The Athletic Media Company collects, uses, and shares certain personal information of job applicants and prospective employees.

Beware of fraudulent job recruiting schemes! Our recruiters use careers@theathletic.com exclusively. We do not conduct interviews via text or instant message and we do not ask candidates to download software, to purchase equipment through us, or to provide sensitive personally identifiable information, such as bank accounts or social security numbers. If you have been contacted by someone claiming to be a recruiter with The Athletic but operating from a different email address about a job offer, please report it as potential job fraud to the law enforcement and to people@theathletic.com.
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