Infrastructure Engineering Director

About the role

Our roster has an opening with your name on it. As the Infrastructure Engineering Director, you'll own FanDuel's foundational cloud and outpost-based infrastructure layer. You'll establish operational excellence, standardization, and reliability across compute, networking, Kubernetes, and cloud provisioning that everything else runs on. This is a hands-on technical leadership role where you set the standard for how infrastructure operates, not just keeping systems running but making them run predictably, with clear processes, documented procedures, and a culture that values doing things right.

The game plan

• Establishing infrastructure strategy and standards across cloud provisioning, observability, disaster recovery, and cost governance. Standardization removes ambiguity and makes operations safer and faster.
• Building and scaling the infrastructure engineering team with operational rigor and discipline. Hiring for people who care about documentation, reliability, and unglamorous work. Creating career paths and developing infrastructure engineers into senior and leadership roles.
• Owning disaster recovery strategy, RTO/RPO definitions, testing, and organizational readiness. If DR hasn't been tested, it doesn't exist.
• Establishing SLOs/SLIs for foundational infrastructure services. Making clear tradeoffs between cost optimization and reliability; these aren't opposing goals but they require transparency.
• Designing and evolving cloud infrastructure for resilience, cost, and operational clarity. Managing AWS, outposts, Kubernetes orchestration, networking, mesh, and compute provisioning.
• Setting standards for operational discipline: change management, incident response, post-mortems, and continuous improvement. Protecting infrastructure engineers from burnout while celebrating unglamorous work.
• Managing vendor relationships, cloud costs, and capacity planning. Owning the business relationship with infrastructure: negotiating contracts, optimizing spend, planning cloud adoption roadmap.
• Leading complex production incident response across infrastructure domains: Kubernetes, networking, DNS, load balancing, service mesh, cloud services.
• Stewarding infrastructure platforms operating under strict regulatory and compliance requirements. Ensuring secure operation, auditability, and disciplined change management.
• Partnering with engineering and product leadership to influence platform direction, roadmap priorities, and long-term infrastructure strategy.
• Evaluating build-versus-buy decisions and vendor capabilities against infrastructure requirements and operational sustainability goals.
• Mentoring engineers and raising infrastructure, platform networking, and operational maturity across the organization.

The stats

• Significant experience leading platform engineering, SRE, or infrastructure organizations.
• Deep expertise in Kubernetes architecture, operations, and scaling. Working knowledge of container orchestration, cluster design, workload isolation, and multi-cluster management.
• Strong hands-on understanding of AWS cloud infrastructure: VPCs, networking, IAM, EC2, EKS, cost management, and operating hybrid AWS environments including Outposts.
• Experience defining and driving platform, reliability, or infrastructure strategy across teams, with the ability to influence technical direction and set standards.
• Proven ability to establish operational discipline: documented runbooks, change management processes, incident response frameworks, and blameless post-mortem culture.
• Experience designing and implementing disaster recovery, RTO/RPO definitions, failover testing, and resilience improvements across production systems.
• Experience defining and implementing SLOs, SLIs, and alerting strategies for infrastructure services using user-centric and business-aligned metrics.
• Strong software engineering fundamentals with proficiency in at least one modern programming language. Ability to build scalable tooling and automation.
• Track record of driving large-scale operational improvements through automation, reducing organizational toil, and preventing recurring classes of issues.
• Understanding of cloud cost drivers and the ability to optimize spend without sacrificing reliability, resilience, or team velocity.
• Strong analytical and communication skills. Ability to influence technical and non-technical stakeholders. Can translate infrastructure constraints into business and customer impact.
• A mindset of ownership, continuous improvement, and long-term platform sustainability. You know when standards are working and when they need to change.

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.

About Fanduel

FanDuel 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.

Pay and schedule

The applicable salary range for this position is $197,000 - 246,000 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.