Job Description

The Pirates Why

The Pittsburgh Pirates are a storied franchise in Major League Baseball who are reinventing themselves on every level. Boldly and relentlessly pursuing excellence by:

• purposefully developing a player and people-centered culture;
• deeply connecting with our fans, partners, and colleagues;
• passionately creating lifetime memories for generations of families and friends; and
• meaningfully impacting our communities and the game of baseball.

At the Pirates, we believe in the power of a diverse workforce and strive to create an inclusive culture centered in Passion, Innovation, Respect, Accountability, Teamwork, Empathy, and Service.

We are looking for a Tech Lead to guide the next evolution of our internal baseball decision-making platform. This web-based system equips players, coaches, analysts, and executives with the insights they need to make better, faster decisions. You’ll be combining bleeding edge ML research with the latest in baseball statistics. You’ll pair hands-on engineering with technical leadership: setting the bar for code quality, modern architectures, and DevOps practices while mentoring a high-performing team of software and data engineers.

Responsibilities

Primary

1. Ensure every baseball systems feature is intuitive, reliable, and delivers measurable impact.
2. Design clean, scalable architectures and champion platform-wide standards that reflect the latest industry best practices.
3. Lead cloud-native engineering efforts, including containerization, Kubernetes orchestration, and infrastructure-as-code pipelines.
4. Partner with data scientists, analysts, software engineers, and front-office leaders to translate baseball strategy into resilient software and ML pipelines.
5. Model fast, high-quality execution—from building custom React components to tuning data services or ML workflows—and see initiatives through from concept to delivery.
6. Mentor engineers of varying experience levels, promoting knowledge sharing, thoughtful code review, and continuous improvement.
7. Champion an Agile product development process that balances experimentation, user feedback, and operational excellence.
8. Keep a relentless focus on features that strengthen the organization’s competitive edge.

Qualifications

Required:

1. Authorized to work lawfully in the United States.
2. Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Information Systems, or a related field (or equivalent experience).
3. Strong communication skills—you translate complex technical concepts for non-technical partners and build trust across departments.
4. Familiarity with building and operating ML pipelines or advanced analytics services alongside traditional application development.
5. Track record of shipping full-stack web applications in data-driven, end-user centric environments.
6. Proven success leading engineering teams, designing technical implementations, and mentoring others to deliver their best work.
7. Hands-on experience with Kubernetes, Docker, container orchestration, and modern DevOps practices (CI/CD, infrastructure as code).
8. Expert-level experience with React, Node.js, and Python, plus comfort moving across the stack—from front-end polish to backend services and data workflows.

Desired:

1. Hands on experience in Statistical Learning or AI Development
2. Deep curiosity about baseball and how data, analytics, and technology inform strategy and performance.

Equal Opportunity Employer

The Pittsburgh Pirates are an equal opportunity employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, national origin, disability status, protected veteran status or any other characteristic protected by law.