Senior Platform Engineer (Python Engineer)

ABOUT FANDUEL

FanDuel Group is the premier mobile gaming company in the United States. 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 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).

THE POSITION
Our roster has an opening with your name on it
As a Senior Platform Engineer on the Release Engineering team, you will be part of a team of engineers dedicated to improving our developer services and tooling by automating controls for Production systems. Across FanDuel we perform tens of thousands of changes to live systems each year. The Release Engineering team build solutions that automate how developers manage production changes, capture deployment data, control approvals for change, and monitor alterations (e.g. file integrity monitoring). As well as coding solutions, mostly in Python, you will get to Terraform infra and work on cicd pipeline steps used by hundreds of engineers. If you are new to some of this, we were too at one point and will support you in learning.

Our stack includes AWS, Python, Terraform, Lambda, Aurora, S3, AWS API gateway and Buildkite.

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

• Design, build and support, tools and frameworks that automate how development teams manage production changes & release data.
• Create and promote best practices for managing deployment artifacts, including containers.
• Implement artifact approval controls.
• Build out change monitoring solutions such as File Integrity Monitoring.
• Help to improve our deployment frameworks, services and tooling.
• Explore a multitude of technology to solve complex problems.
• Write good code following best practices.
• Reflect our team values in day-to-day working.

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

• Experience with CI tools and managing their deployment controls. For example, gated promotion pipelines in Jenkins.
• Experience in Python development.
• Good understanding of source control management and integrations e.g. GitHub configurations.
• Familiarity with configuration management e.g. Chef, Puppet, Ansible.
• Experience with containerization and the use of artifact control tools (e.g. Docker, ECR, Artifactory).
• Experience deploying IAC with terraform or similar.
• Proven experience building cloud-based solutions and configurations, such as AWS.
• Experience of monitoring controls, such as file system (FIM) or Database modification alerts.
• Familiarity with SOX and SOC2 controls an advantage.
• Keen to learn and work with new technologies.
• Ability to build relationships with colleagues across the company.
• Some experience of mentoring more junior staff.

PLAYER BENEFITS
We 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 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.

The applicable salary range for this position is $138,000 - $173,000 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.

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