Esports
Senior Platform Engineering Manager
Mid Level
New York, United States
hybrid
Full time
Job description
About the Role
This role leads Engineering Managers and Platform Engineers across multiple teams within Platform Engineering, reporting to the Platform Engineering Director. It is responsible for leading the delivery and improvement of internal platform capabilities that enable engineers and AI agents to build, deploy and operate software safely and efficiently. The position combines organisational leadership with strong technical judgement, working closely with Engineering, Product and Security to shape roadmaps and turn common engineering needs into reusable, self-service platform capabilities.
Key Responsibilities
- Lead Engineering Managers and Platform Engineers across multiple teams, providing direction, alignment and support to help teams deliver and grow.
- Develop managers and engineers through regular coaching, feedback and career development.
- Translate Platform Engineering strategy into clear priorities and outcomes, ensuring teams understand what matters and why.
- Work closely with Product to shape roadmaps, prioritise investment and ensure platform capabilities address the needs of internal customers.
- Drive the development and adoption of the Internal Developer Platform, including developer tooling, workflows, APIs, templates, integrations and platform services.
- Enable teams to deliver platform capabilities for engineers and AI agents, with a focus on self-service, automation and secure-by-default ways of working.
- Provide technical and organisational leadership, influencing architecture and engineering direction while ensuring teams make sound technical decisions.
- Manage priorities, dependencies and trade-offs across teams, working across Engineering, Product and Security to remove blockers and drive outcomes.
- Drive platform reliability and operational maturity, using SLOs, observability, incidents and operational data to identify and prioritise improvements.
- Use platform metrics and developer feedback to understand adoption, developer experience, reliability and the impact of platform investments.
- Champion engineering standards across automation, code quality, observability, security, Infrastructure as Code and operational excellence.
- Build organisational capability, including workforce planning, hiring, succession planning and developing future technical and people leaders.
- Perform other duties as assigned by the Company to support operational flexibility and evolving business needs.
Required Experience & Qualifications
- 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, prioritise 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 organisation.
- 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 organisational 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.
Preferred Skills
- Familiarity with the team's platform tech stack: AWS (including Outposts), 100+ Kubernetes/EKS clusters, Kong Gateway and Kong Mesh, GitOps (Akuity), Buildkite, Terraform, Helm, Ansible, Vault, Datadog and PagerDuty.
- Apply if you possess an adjacent skill set, even if you do not meet every listed requirement.
Workplace
- Hybrid working arrangement.
Benefits & Perks
- An array of health plans to choose from, some as low as $0 per paycheque, including programmes for fertility and family planning, mental health support and fitness benefits.
- Generous paid time off (PTO and sick leave).
- Annual bonus and long-term incentive opportunities based on performance.
- 401(k) with up to a 5% match.
- Commuter benefits and pet insurance.
- Medical, vision and dental insurance; life insurance; disability insurance.
- Paid personal time off and 14 paid company holidays.
- Paid sick time in accordance with all applicable state and federal laws.
- Eligibility for short-term or long-term incentive compensation, including cash bonuses and stock programme participation.
- Benefits differ across location, role and level.
The Application Process
FanDuel encourages candidates who do not meet every requirement to apply if they possess an adjacent skill set and are interested in learning more about the position. The company provides reasonable accommodations for qualified individuals with disabilities during the application and hiring process, including support for the interview or onboarding process.
About the Company
FanDuel Group is the premier mobile gaming company in the United States and Canada, with a portfolio of leading brands across mobile wagering including America's #1 Sportsbook, FanDuel Sportsbook; its iGaming platform, FanDuel Casino; FanDuel Racing; and its daily fantasy sports product. FanDuel Group is a subsidiary of Flutter Entertainment, the world's largest sports betting and gaming operator, traded on the New York Stock Exchange (NYSE: FLUT), and is an equal opportunities employer committed to equal employment opportunity and to providing reasonable accommodations for qualified individuals with disabilities.
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