Senior Platform Engineering Manager
FanDuel is a premier US-based gaming destination, offering daily fantasy sports, sports betting, and online casino games. Founded in 2009 to innovate the fantasy sports industry, it has become a leading mobile sports betting operator, allowing users to bet on sports, play online games, and build fantasy teams across a wide array of professional sports leagues.
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About FanDuel
FanDuel is the premier gaming destination and #1 Sportsbook in the United States. What started as a backyard brainstorm in Texas in 2009 has grown into a major force in the gaming industry. The company revolutionized fantasy sports by simplifying the season-long game into daily contests, allowing fans to compete and win daily. Today, with over 12 million registered users, FanDuel offers a wide range of products including sports betting on leagues like the NFL, NBA, MLB, and NHL; an online casino with blackjack, slots, and live dealer games; daily fantasy sports for various sports like football, baseball, and basketball; and horse racing betting for major events. Additionally, FanDuel provides content through FanDuel TV and insights via FanDuel Research, making every moment of the game more engaging for its users.
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About the Role
You will lead Engineering Managers and Platform Engineers across multiple teams, develop managers and engineers, set direction, shape roadmaps, manage priorities and dependencies, and drive the development and adoption of internal developer platform capabilities. You will also provide technical leadership, improve reliability and operational maturity, and support secure, self-service workflows for engineers and AI agents.
Requirements
- Experience leading multiple engineering teams in platform engineering, infrastructure, SRE, DevOps, or a related environment
- Experience leading and developing Engineering Managers and engineers
- Experience delivering platform capabilities or internal products at scale
- Experience setting direction and translating strategy into execution
- Experience shaping roadmaps and managing competing demands
- Experience building or scaling internal developer platforms and self-service capabilities
- Experience using platform metrics and developer feedback
- Strong understanding of platform architecture and distributed systems
- Experience with Kubernetes, AWS, GitOps, CI/CD, Infrastructure as Code, and observability
- Understanding of AI-assisted development and agent-based workflows
- Strong stakeholder management, communication, and influencing skills
Responsibilities
- Lead Engineering Managers and Platform Engineers across multiple teams
- Develop managers and engineers through coaching and feedback
- Translate platform engineering strategy into priorities and outcomes
- Shape roadmaps and prioritize platform investment
- Drive development and adoption of the Internal Developer Platform
- Enable self-service, automation, and secure-by-default workflows
- Influence architecture and engineering direction
- Manage priorities, dependencies, and trade-offs across teams
- Drive platform reliability and operational maturity
- Use platform metrics and developer feedback to prioritize improvements
- Champion engineering standards for automation, code quality, observability, security, Infrastructure as Code, and operational excellence
- Plan workforce, hire employees, and develop future technical and people leaders
Benefits
- Health plans
- Fertility and family planning programs
- Mental health support
- Fitness benefits
- Paid time off
- Sick leave
- Annual bonus
- Long-term incentive opportunities
- 401(k) with up to a 5% match
- Commuter benefits
- Pet insurance
- Medical insurance
- Vision insurance
- Dental insurance
- Life insurance
- Disability insurance
- Paid personal time off
- 14 paid company holidays