Data Engineer - Infrastructure

FanDuel Group (“FanDuel") is an innovative sports-tech entertainment company that is changing the way consumers engage with their favorite sports, teams, and leagues. The premier gaming destination in the United States, FanDuel consists of a portfolio of leading brands across gaming, sports betting, daily fantasy sports, advance-deposit wagering, and TV/media.

FanDuel has a presence across all 50 states with approximately 17 million customers and 28 retail locations. FanDuel is based in New York with offices in New Jersey , Georgia, California, Oregon, Canada and Scotland.

Its networks FanDuel TV and FanDuel+ are broadly distributed on linear cable television and through its relationships with leading direct-to-consumer over-the-top platforms.

FanDuel Group is a subsidiary of Flutter Entertainment plc, 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).

At FanDuel, we give fans a new and innovative way to interact with their favorite games, sports and teams. We’re dedicated to building a winning team and we pride ourselves on being able to make every moment mean more, especially when it comes to your career. So, what does “winning” look like at FanDuel? It’s recognition for your hard-earned results, a culture that brings out your best work—and a roster full of talented coworkers. 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 creatives professionals to cutting edge technology innovators, FanDuel offers a wide range of career opportunities, best in class benefits, and the tools to explore and grow into your best selves. At FanDuel, our principle of “We Are One Team” runs through all our offices across the globe, and you can expect to be a part of an exciting company with many opportunities to grow and be successful.

Our roster has an opening with your name on it

Our competitive edge is enabled by the ability to leverage accurate and timely data for informed decision-making. We are seeking a Data Engineer to advance FanDuel’s data capabilities and contribute to the further growth and maturity of our Data Team.  

As a Data Engineer, you will be a valued member of the team, maintaining exceptional standards and servicing all the needs of data consumers across the company. Your role will be to provide first-tier engineering capabilities to ensure the health of our data infrastructure, contribute to the delivery of reliable, timely, and consumable data for all company data consumers. The success of this team will elevate the capabilities of our Data tribe to maximize the value of our data assets and empower employees to innovate.

You will have the opportunity to work in an agile environment where you will team up with colleagues having experience in data warehousing, machine learning and more. 

The successful candidate should have good technical and problem-solving skills, a positive and results driven attitude, and a good communicator who can interact with both technical and non-technical people.

Everyone on our team has a part to play

• Proactively monitor internal channels and system dashboards to identify data issues, escalating appropriately to ensure timely communication and resolution of production incidents within SLAs.
• Provide on-call technical assistance to data engineering teams, responding to inquiries relating to query optimization, reporting anomalies or complex data pipeline issues.
• ​​​​Proactively monitor systems health for Kafka, Airflow, Redshift & Databricks acting for performance mitigation (i.e. termination of long running queries)​ and error debugging on workflows and jobs​.
• Administer account access across the technology stack in accordance with SoX governance policies.
• Create and maintain technical support documentation, including frequently asked questions (FAQs), troubleshooting steps, support runbooks and knowledge base of solutions to recurring issues.
• Driving operational best practices and shaping workflows for routine consumer support, operations monitoring, incident management, and problem management.
• Assist in ensuring compliance of data services and systems with internal/external audits and control practices.
• Own and coordinate issues across multiple time zones, bringing continuity of coverage to the Data tribe.
  

What we're looking for in our next teammate

Preferred skills:

• Strong problem-solving skills, with the ability to get to the root causes of issues and implement effective solutions.
• A customer-oriented mindset, with a focus on delivering high-quality support services and attention to detail.
• Experience with real-time technologies such as Kafka or Kinesis.
• Experience with AWS Redshift or Databricks.
• Experience in Spark, either on Databricks, AWS or Azure.
• Strong SQL knowledge and query performance tuning.
• Exposure to database design & performance analysis.
• Understanding of data warehousing and ETL/ELT processing.
• Exceptional communication and interpersonal skills.

Desired skills:

• Familiarity with data visualization tools, such as Tableau or Looker.
• Experience with batch data ingestion.
• Experience in other programming languages such as Java.
• Exposure to streaming processing technologies
• Exposure with data streaming patterns.
• Exposure to orchestration and monitoring tools, such as Airflow, Datadog or Databand.
• Exposure to Continuous Integration / Continuous Delivery tools, such as BuildKite or Github Actions.
  

We treat our team right

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. 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
• Be well, save well and live well - with FanDuel Total Rewards your benefits are one highlight reel after another 

FanDuel is an equal opportunities employer and we believe, as one of our principal states, “We Are One Team!”  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 another 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.  We want our team to include diverse individuals because diversity of thought, diversity of perspectives, and diversity of experiences leads to better performance.  Having a diverse and inclusive workforce is a core value that we believe makes FanDuel stronger and more competitive as One Team!

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