THE POSITIONOur roster has an opening with your name on it
As a Senior Platform Engineering Manager, you'll lead Engineering Managers and Platform Engineers across multiple teams within Platform Engineering. You'll 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.
You'll 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, you'll remain close to the delivery and development of the teams and people you directly manage.
Working closely with Engineering, Product and Security, you'll 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, you'll also help shape how our platform supports engineers and AI-driven workflows safely and at scale.
Reporting to the Platform Engineering Director, you'll 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 PLANEveryone 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 StackAWS (including Outposts) 100+ Kubernetes/EKS clusters Kong Gateway & Kong Mesh GitOps (Akuity) Buildkite Terraform Helm Ansible Vault Datadog PagerDuty
THE STATSWhat we're 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.
Don't check all the boxes? That's 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 FANDUELFanDuel 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: America's #1 Sportsbook, FanDuel Sportsbook; its leading iGaming platform, FanDuel Casino; the industry's 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 company's affiliates have offices worldwide, including in Ireland, Portugal, Romania, and Australia.
FanDuel Group is a subsidiary of Flutter Entertainment, the world's largest sports betting and gaming operator with a portfolio of globally recognized brands and traded on the New York Stock Exchange (NYSE: FLUT).
PLAYER BENEFITSWe 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 $183,000 - $275,000 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
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