Senior Platform Engineering Manager

The Senior Platform Engineering Manager leads Engineering Managers and Platform Engineers across multiple teams within Platform Engineering, reporting to the Platform Engineering Director. The role owns the delivery and improvement of internal platform capabilities that enable engineers and AI agents to build, deploy and operate software safely and efficiently. Working closely with Engineering, Product and Security, the postholder shapes the roadmap for the area, manages priorities and dependencies across teams, and turns common engineering needs into reusable, self-service platform capabilities.

• Lead Engineering Managers and Platform Engineers across multiple teams, providing direction, alignment and support, and developing them 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.

• 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.

• Candidates with an adjacent skill set who do not meet every listed requirement are encouraged to apply.
• Familiarity with the platform technology stack: AWS (including Outposts), 100+ Kubernetes/EKS clusters, Kong Gateway and Kong Mesh, GitOps (Akuity), Buildkite, Terraform, Helm, Ansible, Vault, Datadog and PagerDuty.

• Hybrid working.

• An array of health plans to choose from, some as low as $0 per paycheck, 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.
• 401k with up to a 5% match.
• Commuter benefits.
• Pet insurance.
• Medical, vision and dental insurance; life insurance; disability insurance; and a 401(k) matching programme.
• Eligibility for short-term or long-term incentive compensation, including cash bonuses and stock programme participation.
• Paid personal time off and 14 paid company holidays.
• Paid sick time in accordance with all applicable state and federal laws.
• Benefits differ across location, role and level.

FanDuel Group is the premier mobile gaming company in the United States and Canada, with a portfolio of leading brands across mobile wagering including FanDuel Sportsbook, 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, which is traded on the New York Stock Exchange (NYSE: FLUT).