Are you passionate about building scalable, reliable, and secure platforms that power real-time, high-traffic user experiences? Do you thrive in fast-paced environments, excel at solving complex distributed systems problems, and enjoy partnering closely with Product, Engineering, and Security teams? If so, Fliff is looking for a Staff DevOps Engineer to join their team!

At Fliff, we're 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.

As a Staff DevOps Engineer at Fliff, you'll:

Architect, Build, and Operate Infrastructure

  • 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.

Drive Observability and Reliability

  • 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 Security and Compliance

  • 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.

Collaborate with Engineering Leadership

  • 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.

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.

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).

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.

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.