FanDuel needs to ensure its data services are resilient, performant, and highly reliable to meet the scale, speed, and complexity of its business, and withstand outages, recover rapidly, and continuously deliver against demanding reliability targets.
Requirements
- 5+ years of experience in Site Reliability Engineering, DevOps, Infrastructure, or Data Platform Engineering.
- Strong knowledge of AWS services (EC2, S3, RDS, Lambda, CloudWatch, etc.) and infrastructure-as-code (Terraform, CloudFormation, Ansible).
- Hands-on experience with data platform technologies (Databricks, Redshift, Airflow, dbt, Spark, Kafka).
- Proficiency in at least one programming language (Python, Go, Java, or similar).
- Experience with monitoring, observability, and log analysis tools (Prometheus, Grafana, DataDog, ELK, Splunk).
- Solid understanding of CI/CD pipelines, version control (Git), and automation practices.
- Proven ability to design and implement business continuity and disaster recovery solutions.
Responsibilities
- Design and maintain highly available, scalable data platform infrastructure on AWS (Databricks, Redshift, Airflow).
- Collaborate with engineering teams to optimize performance across clusters, pipelines, and workflows.
- Implement infrastructure-as-code (Terraform, CloudFormation, CDK) to automate deployment and recovery.
- Establish and monitor SLOs/SLIs, building observability and automation for reliability at scale.
- Lead business continuity and disaster recovery planning, including cross-region failover and backup strategies.
- Drive incident management end-to-end: response, escalation, post-mortems, and root cause analysis.
- Champion continuous improvement, applying learnings from incidents and performance data to strengthen resilience.
Other
- Excellent communication and documentation skills, with ability to influence and advocate for best practices across teams.
- Demonstrated track record of improving system reliability, performance, and efficiency at scale.
- Ability to work in a team environment and collaborate with engineering and operations teams.
- Strong incident management skills, including root cause analysis and post-mortem processes.
- Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or related field (not explicitly mentioned but implied as a general requirement)
