Senior Site Reliability Engineer

We’re Underdog.

The fastest-growing sports gaming company – ever.

We build innovative games, products, and experiences for American sports fans.

We’re here to shake up the fastest growing industry with bold ideas, custom-built tech, and the drive to win.

Founded in 2020, our team has built four of today’s most widely played fantasy games and launched the Underdog Sportsbook – built entirely in-house with our own technology. That means we control our product, move fast, and create experiences you won’t find anywhere else. 

In just over two years, we’ve reached over a $1.2 billion valuation, with investors like BlackRock, Spark Capital, SV Angel, Mark Cuban, Kevin Durant, and Adam Schefter. And we’re just getting started.

At Underdog, we believe that sports are for everyone. Join us.

What you’ll do:

• Own and maintain the incident response process, including defining procedures, tools, and best practices
• Guide teams in establishing and monitoring Service Level Objectives (SLOs), including setting up alerts and reporting systems
• Lead capacity planning initiatives, focusing on both short and long-term scalability while optimizing costs
• Develop and implement disaster recovery plans, including regular testing and regulatory compliance
• Collaborate with teams on architecture decisions to ensure high availability and scalability
• Manage launch and event planning for high-traffic occasions, focusing on infrastructure preparation and capacity management (a.k.a. Launch Readiness)
• Act as an internal expert and consultant for monitoring tools like Datadog and Pagerduty and infrastructure like AWS and Kubernetes
• Emphasis on automation and tooling to scale our workload
• Jump in and out of repos written in languages like Ruby, Python, Go, Typescript, Swift, Kotlin, and SQL to support efforts described above

Who you are:

• 6+ years of experience in site reliability engineering, cloud infrastructure, and/or web application development
• A strong written and verbal communicator
• Collaborative by nature
• Someone who enjoys using research, data, and experiments to make decisions; you believe “Hope is not a strategy.”
• You enjoy working directly with customers (generally engineers or other people inside the company)
• You think long-term about what is best for the business and its customers
• You are excited to take ownership
• You are very comfortable around an IDE, working with multiple languages, multiple web application frameworks, AWS services, Kubernetes, PostgreSQL
• You can work independently to learn new languages/technologies as needed
• You enjoy deploying changes to production quickly, multiple times a week if necessary

Even better if you have:

• Experience with PostgreSQL SQL query optimization, tweaking autovacuum settings, table statistics, different index types, etc.
• Experience with Redis/Valley Optimization
• Experience with Datadog or similar products
• Experience working as a web application developer, frontend or backend, especially in React and Ruby on Rails
• Experience with AWS cost optimization
• Read the Google SRE books or similar books, or have other forms of SRE training
• Actively leveraging the capabilities of AI to augment abilities and gain knowledge about interested domains

Our target starting base salary range for this position is between $150,000 and $180,000, plus target equity. The starting base salary will depend on a number of factors including the candidate’s skills and experience, among other things.

What we can offer you:

• Unlimited PTO (we're extremely flexible with the exception of the first few weeks before & into the NFL season)
• 16 weeks of fully paid parental leave
• A $500 home office allowance
• A connected virtual first culture with a highly engaged distributed workforce
• 5% 401k match, FSA, company paid health, dental, vision plan options for employees and dependents

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This position may require sports betting licensure based on certain state regulations.

Underdog is an equal opportunity employer and doesn't discriminate on the basis of creed, race, sexual orientation, gender, age, disability status, or any other defining characteristic.