Senior Platform Engineering Manager

THE POSITION
Our roster has an opening with your name on it

As a Senior Platform Engineering Manager youll lead Engineering Managers and Platform Engineers across multiple teams within Platform Engineering. Youll be responsible for leading the delivery and improvement of the internal platform capabilities that enable engineers and AI agents to build deploy and operate software safely and efficiently.

Youll be responsible for developing managers and engineers setting direction across your area and ensuring teams are focused on the right priorities. Alongside your broader leadership responsibilities youll remain close to the delivery and development of the teams and people you directly manage.

Working closely with Engineering Product and Security youll shape the roadmap for your area manage priorities and dependencies across teams and turn common engineering needs into reusable self-service platform capabilities. As AI becomes a bigger part of software development youll also help shape how our platform supports engineers and AI-driven workflows safely and at scale.

Reporting to the Platform Engineering Director youll combine strong organizational leadership with strong technical judgement to influence technical direction challenge decisions and create an environment where teams can deliver effectively.

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

• Leading Engineering Managers and Platform Engineers across multiple teams providing direction alignment and support to help teams deliver and grow.
• Developing managers and engineers through regular coaching feedback and career development.
• Translating Platform Engineering strategy into clear priorities and outcomes ensuring teams understand what matters and why.
• Working closely with Product to shape roadmaps prioritize investment and ensure platform capabilities address the needs of our internal customers.
• Driving the development and adoption of our Internal Developer Platform including developer tooling workflows APIs templates integrations and platform services.
• Enabling teams to deliver platform capabilities for engineers and AI agents with a focus on self-service automation and secure-by-default ways of working.
• Providing technical and organizational leadership influencing architecture and engineering direction while ensuring teams make sound technical decisions.
• Managing priorities dependencies and trade-offs across teams working across Engineering Product and Security to remove blockers and drive outcomes.
• Driving platform reliability and operational maturity using SLOs observability incidents and operational data to identify and prioritize improvements.
• Using platform metrics and developer feedback to understand adoption developer experience reliability and the impact of platform investments.
• Championing engineering standards across automation code quality observability security Infrastructure as Code and operational excellence.
• Building organizational capability including workforce planning hiring succession planning and developing future technical and people leaders.

A Sneak Peek Into Our Tech Stack

AWS (including Outposts) 100 Kubernetes/EKS clusters Kong Gateway & Kong Mesh GitOps (Akuity) Buildkite Terraform Helm Ansible Vault Datadog PagerDuty

THE STATS
What were looking for in our next teammate

• Proven experience leading across multiple engineering teams ideally within Platform Engineering infrastructure SRE DevOps or a related engineering environment.
• Experience leading and developing Engineering Managers and engineers with a track record of building strong high-performing teams.
• A track record of delivering platform capabilities or internal products at scale that improve developer productivity reliability or operational efficiency.
• Experience setting direction and translating strategy into execution aligning multiple teams around clear priorities and measurable outcomes.
• Experience working closely with Product and Engineering leadership to shape roadmaps prioritize investment and manage competing demands.
• Experience building or scaling internal developer platforms and self-service capabilities with a strong understanding of platform-as-a-product principles and experience driving adoption across an engineering organization.
• Experience using platform metrics and developer feedback to measure adoption developer experience reliability and outcomes and using those insights to inform priorities and investment.
• Strong technical understanding of platform architecture distributed systems and modern software delivery with the ability to influence technical direction and evaluate trade-offs at an organizational level.
• Experience with modern platform technologies and practices such as Kubernetes AWS GitOps CI/CD Infrastructure as Code and observability.
• An understanding of how AI-assisted development and agent-based workflows are changing how engineers interact with platforms tooling and infrastructure.
• Strong stakeholder management communication and influencing skills with the ability to work effectively across Engineering Product Security and senior leadership.
• A mindset of ownership accountability and continuous improvement with the ability to create the same culture across multiple teams.

Dont check all the boxes Thats okay! We encourage you to still apply if you feel like you possess an adjacent skill set and are interested in learning more about this position.

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.

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.

The applicable salary range for this position is $183000 - $229000 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.

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.

#LI-Hybrid