Site Reliability Engineer - Cloud Platforms

Job Description

ABOUT FANDUEL GROUP

FanDuel Group is a world-class team of brands and products all built with one goal in mind — to give fans new and innovative ways to interact with their favorite games, sports, teams, and leagues. That’s no easy task, which is why we’re so dedicated to building a winning team. And make no mistake, we are here to win, but we believe in winning right. That means we’ll never compromise when it comes to looking out for our teammates. From our many opportunities for professional development to our generous insurance and paid leave policies, we’re committed to making sure our employees get as much out of FanDuel as we ask them to give.

Our brands include:

• FanDuel — A game-changing real-money fantasy sports app
• FanDuel Sportsbook — America’s #1 sports betting app
• FanDuel TV — "The Bettor Sports Network" bringing live sports and interactive content to the games fans care about most
• FanDuel Racing — A horse racing app built for the average sports fan
• FanDuel Casino & Betfair Casino — Fan-favorite online casino apps
• FOXBet — A world-class betting platform and affiliate of FanDuel Group
• PokerStars — The premier online poker product and affiliate of FanDuel Group

THE POSITION:
Our roster has an opening with your name on it

Sundays are big days for us. We have millions of our closest friends come over to watch the games and maybe we’ll enter a million Daily Fantasy line-ups or we’ll place around three million SportsBook wagers. Perhaps we’ll use our Casino products during the game intervals or maybe we’ll take a punt on the horses. Either way, our customers see odds, lines, spreads, line-ups, play-by-play live scoring updates, deposits, and withdrawals. We see resilient Cloud and on-premise infrastructure hosting a multitude of horizontally-scalable services that contend with data consistency challenges at scale. This is not a sports job - this is a Site Reliability Engineering job - it’s infrastructure drives our organisation.

FanDuel is looking for SRE aficionados like you in both the UK and US time zones to join our expanding Cloud Platforms team. The most important characteristic of this team is that we love helping our Engineering teams. FanDuel is a place for people to work better together and Cloud Platforms treats people the way we’d want someone to treat our friends.

Forget stakeholders, synergies and other management buzzwords: Cloud Platformers have charming personalities and the ability to explain complicated things simply. The occasional use of an animated GIF may be required. Aside from that, we’re on a huge drive to fully containerise our architecture.

THE GAME PLAN:
Everyone on our team has a part to play

● Knowing your way around the AWS console - everything from IAM to EC2 to Lambda to RDS to SQS to EKS and much more besides, like Outposts, for example

● Orchestration. Docker and Kubernetes are really huge for us

● Terraforming all the infrastructural things

● Building pipelines using Buildkite and Jenkins

● Being comfortable taking DataDog for a walk

● Managing configuration with Puppet and Chef

● Automating continuous delivery using shell, Perl, Python or other scripting languages

● Knowing git and GitHub (no-brainers really)

● Having some experience with internet networking

● Knowing how an app should be built for the cloud

● Being cool with managing database schema deployments

● Comfortable communicating with internal and external engineering teams

● Operating a (virtual) helpdesk

● Being comfortable authoring some light documentation and sharing with your peers

● Occasionally being on-call

● Taking a day a fortnight to work on something you care about

THE STATS:
What we're looking for in our next teammate

● The English language, thinking logically and being pragmatic

● Putting yourself in other’s shoes, seeking to understand before being understood

● Working remotely

● Perhaps you have a software engineering or an architectural background?

● You understand the data consistency challenges inherent in distributed systems

● You know that resilience, security, observability and performance are number one priorities before the first PR is created

We treat our team right

Competitive compensation is just the beginning. As part of our team, you can expect:

• An exciting and fun environment committed to driving real growth
• Opportunities to build really cool products that fans love
• Mentorship and professional development resources to help you refine your game
• Flexible vacation allowance to let you refuel
• Hall of Fame benefit programs and platforms

FanDuel Group is an equal opportunities employer. Diversity and inclusion in FanDuel means that we respect and value everyone as individuals. We don't tolerate bias, judgement or harassment. Our focus is on developing employees so that they reach their full potential.

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