Senior Data Engineer
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$ 138000 - 181650
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THE POSITION
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At FanDuel our data platforms power mission-critical products used by millions of customers every day. To meet the scale speed and complexity of our business we need to ensure our data services are resilient performant and highly reliableeven in the face of failures or large-scale disruption.
This Senior Site Reliability Engineer (SRE) role sits within our Data organization and will play a critical role in building and maturing our reliability engineering and disaster recovery capabilities. You will help define the standards architectures and operating models that allow FanDuels data infrastructure to withstand outages recover rapidly and continuously deliver against demanding reliability targets.
As a Senior Engineer you will not only be deeply hands-on in implementation but will also act as a technical leadermentoring engineers setting direction and driving adoption of best practices across the organization. You will work closely with engineering and operations teams to establish observability frameworks define service-level objectives (SLOs) automate recovery procedures and architect cross-region failover solutions. Your expertise will directly shape how FanDuel safeguards its data platforms and ensures business continuity during critical events.
In addition to the specific responsibilities outlined above employees may be required to perform other such duties as assigned by the Company. This ensures operational flexibility and allows the Company to meet evolving business needs.
THE GAME PLAN
Everyone on our team has a part to play
- Design and maintain highly available scalable data platform infrastructure on AWS (Databricks Redshift Airflow).
- Collaborate with engineering teams to optimize performance across clusters pipelines and workflows.
- Implement infrastructure-as-code (Terraform CloudFormation CDK) to automate deployment and recovery.
- Establish and monitor SLOs/SLIs building observability and automation for reliability at scale.
- Lead business continuity and disaster recovery planning including cross-region failover and backup strategies.
- Drive incident management end-to-end: response escalation post-mortems and root cause analysis.
- Champion continuous improvement applying learnings from incidents and performance data to strengthen resilience.
THE STATS
What were looking for in our next teammate
- 5 years of experience in Site Reliability Engineering DevOps Infrastructure or Data Platform Engineering.
- Strong knowledge of AWS services (EC2 S3 RDS Lambda CloudWatch etc.) and infrastructure-as-code (Terraform CloudFormation Ansible).
- Hands-on experience with data platform technologies (Databricks Redshift Airflow dbt Spark Kafka).
- Proficiency in at least one programming language (Python Go Java or similar).
- Experience with monitoring observability and log analysis tools (Prometheus Grafana DataDog ELK Splunk).
- Solid understanding of CI/CD pipelines version control (Git) and automation practices.
- Proven ability to design and implement business continuity and disaster recovery solutions.
- Strong incident management skills including root cause analysis and post-mortem processes.
- Knowledge of network security and compliance frameworks.
- Excellent communication and documentation skills with ability to influence and advocate for best practices across teams.
- Demonstrated track record of improving system reliability performance and efficiency at scale.
ABOUT FANDUEL
FanDuel Group is the premier mobile gaming company in the United States and Canada. FanDuel Group consists of a portfolio of leading brands across mobile wagering including: Americas #1 Sportsbook FanDuel Sportsbook; its leading iGaming platform FanDuel Casino; the industrys 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 Canada 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 companys affiliates have offices worldwide including in Ireland Portugal Romania and Australia.
FanDuel Group is a subsidiary of Flutter Entertainment the worlds largest sports betting and gaming operator with a portfolio of globally recognized brands and traded on the New York Stock Exchange (NYSE: FLUT).
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 any 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 $138000 - $181650 USD 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.
FanDuel is committed to providing reasonable accommodations for qualified individuals with disabilities. If you have a disability and need a workplace accommodation or adjustment during the application and hiring process including support for the interview or onboarding process please email.
It is unlawful in Massachusetts to require or administer a lie detector test as a condition of employment or continued employment. An employer who violates this law shall be subject to criminal penalties and civil liability.
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Required Experience:
Senior IC
Employment Type
Full Time
