Youth sports offer important life lessons that propel kids toward meaningful futures, including a sense of family and community. GameChanger by DICK’S Sporting Goods works to connect families via live video streaming of games, scorekeeping and team communication tools for more than half a million teams. We are a remote-first, dynamic tech company based in New York City intent on improving youth sports for all and developing our own teammates.

OVERVIEW:

About GameChanger:

We believe in the life-changing impact youth sports have on and off the field because they encourage leadership, teamwork, responsibility, and confidence—important life lessons that have the power to propel our youth toward meaningful futures. We recognize that without coaches, parents, and volunteers, organized youth sports could not exist. By building the first and best place to experience the youth sports moments important to our community, we are helping families elevate the next generation through youth sports.

So if you love sports and their community-building potential, or building cool products is your sport, GameChanger is the team for you. We are a remote-first, dynamic tech company based in New York City, and we are solving some of the biggest challenges in youth sports today.

The Position:

GameChanger's Cloud Infrastructure Team enables GameChanger engineers to deliver great products on a stable and scalable platform. As the engineering manager for this team, you’ll manage the team, as well as organize and drive initiatives in the DevOps/SRE, Cloud, and Data spaces. The Cloud Infrastructure team has ownership of our AWS environment, CI/CD pipelines, Data architecture, and deployment tooling, and leads other projects to improve GameChanger’s developer efficiency as well as our cloud maturity. This empowered team will work collaboratively with other platform and software engineering teams and engineering leaders to gather feedback, review designs, and proactively improve the foundation that engineering builds upon.  An excellent communicator, you’ll provide the vision, priorities, and drive day to day work for the team. You will be a leader, a mentor, and occasional hands-on developer or solutions architect. 

What You'll Do:

• Manage a Cloud Infrastructure engineering team.

• Guide and drive the strategy, roadmap definition, prioritization, execution, and team building for the team.

• Work closely with other engineering teams and leaders to gather internal customer feedback and use it to influence the direction for the team.

• Envision, plan, and communicate initiatives to improve our cloud, devops, and data architecture maturity to support a scalable and reliable platform. Example projects might include implementing build compilation improvements, improving autoscaling and scalability via infrastructure or code changes, improving cloud tagging and account strategy, adding cloud cost controls, etc.

• Promote responsible engineering practices across the whole engineering organization.

• Encourage engineers to contribute at the highest level and serve our customers.

• Work with leadership peers to refine and improve our innovative engineering culture.

• Help engineers gain technical breadth and depth, improve judgment, and develop into tomorrow's leaders.

Who You Are:

• Experience leading in the DevOps, Cloud Infrastructure, Site Reliability Engineering space including as a technical lead.

• Familiarity with CI/CD and DevOps principles and patterns.

• Ability to engage in hands-on tasks and directly contribute to projects when necessary.

• Customer empathy for internal and external customers.

• Experience coding in a higher-level language such as Python or TypeScript/Node.js is beneficial.

• Knowledgeable about AWS services, patterns and best practices for resiliency, scalability, and security.

Perks:

• Work remotely throughout the US* or from our well-furnished, modern office in Manhattan, NY.

• Unlimited vacation policy.

• Paid volunteer opportunities.

• WFH stipend - $500 annually to make your WFH situation comfortable.

• Snack stipend - $60 monthly to have snacks shipped to your home office.

• Full health benefits - medical, dental, vision, prescription, FSA/HRA, and coverage for family/dependents.

• Life insurance - basic life, supplemental life, and dependent life.

• Disability leave - short-term disability and long-term disability.

• Retirement savings - 401K plan offered through Vanguard, with a company match.

• Company paid access to a wellness platform to support mental, financial and physical wellbeing.

• Generous parental leave.

• DICK’S Sporting Goods Teammate Discount.

We are an equal opportunity employer and value diversity in our company. We do not discriminate on the basis of race, religion, color, national origin, gender, sexual orientation, age, marital status, veteran status, or disability status.

The target salary range for this position is between $180,000 and $210,000. This is part of a competitive total rewards package that includes incentive, equity, and benefits for eligible roles. Individual pay may vary from the target range and is determined by a number of factors including experience, internal pay equity, and other relevant business considerations. We review all teammate pay regularly to ensure competitive and fair pay.

*DICK’S Sporting Goods has company-wide practices to monitor and protect the company from significant compliance and monetary implications as it pertains to employer state tax liabilities. Due to said guidelines put in place, we are unable to hire in AK, DE, HI, IA, LA, MS, MT, OK, and SC.

QUALIFICATIONS:

We are an equal opportunity employer and value diversity at our company. We do not discriminate on the basis of race, religion, color, national origin, gender, sexual orientation, age, marital status, veteran status, or disability status.