Data Platform Engineer (Daily Fantasy Sports)

Location: Remote within the United States; preference for candidates based in Atlanta

Compensation package with annual bonus; exact salary not specified

Company

hirify.global operates a Daily Fantasy Sports platform covering major leagues and esports competitions.

What you will do

• Design and build scalable data platforms for batch and streaming use cases.
• Develop data catalog, lineage, security, and governance capabilities.
• Build low-latency services for streaming and near-real-time decisions, including dynamic oddsmaking, risk analysis, and deposit defaults.
• Establish model deployment, monitoring, CI/CD, and observability practices for data platforms.
• Maintain platform availability at 99.99% and support the full development lifecycle from concept to release.

Requirements

• 3+ years of platform engineering experience deploying and maintaining scalable data platforms in high-traffic production environments.
• Experience with streaming architectures such as Kafka, Flink, or Pub/Sub and low-latency services supporting model inference under 100 ms.
• Proficiency with containerization, Docker, Kubernetes, and cluster-level management.
• Expertise in Python and Go, plus cloud services such as GCP BigQuery, Cloud Functions, and GKE or AWS equivalents.
• Experience with big data and platform technologies including Spark, Kafka, Flink, Airflow, Iceberg, Lakehouse, Redis, Elasticsearch, and databases.
• Must be authorized to work for any employer in the United States.

Nice to have

• Experience with Daily Fantasy Sports, oddsmaking, or high-frequency trading.
• Experience bridging batch historical data with real-time event streams and enabling self-service data pipelines.
• Experience implementing infrastructure for large-scale data platforms and using AI agents or AI coding tools.

Culture & Benefits

• Inclusive culture with a diverse team of more than 550 employees.
• Company-subsidized medical, dental, and vision plans.
• 401(k) plan with company match, paid leave programs, disability benefits, and 16-week paid parental leave.
• Flexible PTO, workplace flexibility, and modern work schedules.
• Company equipment, in-person events, team outings, and career development opportunities.