Senior Platform Engineer

ABOUT FANDUEL

FanDuel Group is the premier mobile gaming company in the United States. FanDuel Group consists of a portfolio of leading brands across mobile wagering including: America’s #1 Sportsbook, FanDuel Sportsbook; its leading iGaming platform, FanDuel Casino; the industry’s unquestioned leader in horse racing and advance-deposit wagering, FanDuel Racing; and its daily fantasy sports product.  

In addition, FanDuel Group operates FanDuel TV, its broadly distributed linear cable television network and FanDuel TV+, its leading direct-to-consumer OTT platform. FanDuel Group has a presence across all 50 states and Puerto Rico.

The company is based in New York with US offices in Los Angeles, Atlanta, and Jersey City, as well as global offices in Canada and Scotland. The company’s affiliates have offices worldwide, including in Ireland, Portugal, Romania, and Australia.

FanDuel Group is a subsidiary of Flutter Entertainment, the world's largest sports betting and gaming operator with a portfolio of globally recognized brands and traded on the New York Stock Exchange (NYSE: FLUT).

THE POSITION
Our roster has an opening with your name on it
The Platform Engineering Team at FanDuel is looking for a hardworking and passionate Senior Platform Engineer to support and enhance Cloud Architecture.

As a Senior Platform Engineer, you will be working with internal stakeholders, engineers, cloud platform engineers and other technologists across the business. The position requires the candidate to have experience in cloud architecture, CI/CD, Infrastructure-as-Code (Iac) and maintaining operational platforms.

THE GAME PLAN
Everyone on our team has a part to play

• Design and manage cloud infrastructure with terraform with a focus on scalability, resilience, and security.
• Provide technical guidance to the DevOps team, fostering a culture of continual learning.
• Enhance infrastructure performance, monitor operations, and tackle bottlenecks proactively.
• Set up and maintain CI/CD pipelines, implementing automated testing and release processes.
• Explore and recommend tools and technologies to improve the DevOps workflow.
• Build, maintain, optimize, and scale FanDuel's infrastructure.
• Improve operations and processes through automation and advanced tooling.
• Partner with application engineers, promoting best practices and efficient infrastructure use.
• Plan for the growth of FanDuel's infrastructure, preparing for future challenges.

THE STATS
What we're looking for in our next teammate

• Strong experience working on cloud platforms, focusing on security, performance, and cost.

• Exceptional problem-solving and communication skills, facilitating effective collaboration with cross-functional teams.
• Mastery in infrastructure automation using terraform with a deep understanding of its capabilities.
• Strong understanding of cloud platforms (AWS preferred) and effective cloud resource management.
• Excellent scripting and automation skills using languages like Python, Bash, or PowerShell.
• In-depth understanding of containerization technologies like Docker and orchestration tools such as Kubernetes.
• Solid grasp of networking concepts and security principles
• Experience with GIT development, deployment, and support of data processes and procedures.
• Solid experience with tools for performance monitoring and troubleshooting.
• Proven experience and expertise in Cloud operational monitoring and administration to provide overall system visibility and observability with Datadog, CloudWatch and similar tools.

Desired Characteristics:

• A successful candidate has technical depth and hands-on implementation experience of various practices and tools in the DevOps toolchain
• The Senior DevOps Engineer is comfortable rolling up their sleeves to design and code modules for infrastructure, application, and processes.
• A system engineering or developer background with the ability to learn quickly and share your knowledge with the broader team
• A mindset of automate everything, with experience demonstrating this.
• Superior communication and collaboration skills, proven by a history of successful cross team initiatives.

Desired Technology Experience:

• 3-5 years Linux experience with Python, Perl or Shell scripting
• 3-5 years of AWS (IAM, S3, KMS, Cloud Formation, VPC, Lambda, Security Groups, SNS, RDS, EMR)
• 3-5 years of GitHub, CI/CD - Buildkite, Jenkins
• 3-5 years of Configuration Management tools - Puppet or similar (Ansible, Chef)
• 2-4 years of Infrastructure as Code (Terraform, CloudFormation) experience.
• 2-3 years of Docker, Container Orchestration (Kubernetes, EKS, ECS), Helm package manager
• 1-3 years of Messaging – SQS, Kafka, RabbitMQ or similar technologies
• 1-3 years of DataDog, Cloudwatch monitoring solutions experience.

PLAYER BENEFITS
We treat our team right

We offer amazing benefits above and beyond the basics. We have an array of health plans to choose from (some as low as $0 per paycheck) that include programs for fertility and family planning, mental health support, and fitness benefits. We offer generous paid time off (PTO & sick leave), annual bonus and long-term incentive opportunities (based on performance), 401k with up to a 5% match, commuter benefits , pet insurance, and more - check out all our benefits here: FanDuel Total Rewards. *Benefits differ across location, role, and level.

FanDuel is an equal opportunities employer and we believe, as one of our principles states, “We are One Team!”. As such, we are committed to equal employment opportunity regardless of race, color, ethnicity, ancestry, religion, creed, sex, national origin, sexual orientation, age, citizenship status, marital status, disability, gender identity, gender expression, veteran status, or another other characteristic protected by state, local or federal law. We believe FanDuel is strongest and best able to compete if all employees feel valued, respected, and included.

The applicable salary range for this position is $134,000 - $183,700, which is dependent on a variety of factors including relevant experience, location, business needs and market demand. This role may offer the following benefits: medical, vision, and dental insurance; life insurance; disability insurance; a 401(k) matching program; among other employee benefits. This role may also be eligible for short-term or long-term incentive compensation, including, but not limited to, cash bonuses and stock program participation. This role includes paid personal time off and 14 paid company holidays. FanDuel offers paid sick time in accordance with all applicable state and federal laws.

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