Senior Platform Engineering Manager

Our roster has an opening with your name on it. As a leader in Platform Engineering, you’ll guide Engineering Managers and Platform Engineers across multiple teams, driving the delivery and enhancement of internal platform capabilities that empower engineers and AI agents to build, deploy, and operate software safely and efficiently.

About the role

You’ll combine strong organizational leadership with technical judgment to set direction, develop managers and engineers, and ensure teams focus on the right priorities. Working closely with Engineering, Product, and Security, you’ll shape the roadmap, manage cross-team dependencies, and turn common engineering needs into reusable, self-service platform capabilities. As AI reshapes software development, you’ll help define how our platform supports engineers and AI-driven workflows at scale.

Reporting to the Platform Engineering Director, you’ll influence technical direction, challenge decisions, and foster an environment where teams can deliver effectively.

Responsibilities

• Lead Engineering Managers and Platform Engineers across multiple teams, providing direction, alignment, and support to drive delivery and growth.
• Develop managers and engineers through coaching, feedback, and career development.
• Translate Platform Engineering strategy into clear priorities and outcomes, ensuring teams understand what matters and why.
• Collaborate with Product to shape roadmaps, prioritize investments, and address the needs of internal customers.
• Drive the development and adoption of our Internal Developer Platform, including tooling, workflows, APIs, templates, integrations, and platform services.
• Enable teams to deliver platform capabilities for engineers and AI agents, emphasizing self-service, automation, and secure-by-default practices.
• Provide technical and organizational leadership, influencing architecture and engineering direction while ensuring sound technical decisions.
• Manage priorities, dependencies, and trade-offs across teams, working with Engineering, Product, and Security to remove blockers and drive outcomes.
• Enhance platform reliability and operational maturity using SLOs, observability, incidents, and operational data to identify and prioritize improvements.
• Leverage platform metrics and developer feedback to assess adoption, developer experience, reliability, and the impact of platform investments.
• Champion engineering standards across automation, code quality, observability, security, Infrastructure as Code, and operational excellence.
• Build organizational capability through workforce planning, hiring, succession planning, and developing future technical and people leaders.

Tech Stack

• AWS (including Outposts)
• 100+ Kubernetes/EKS clusters
• Kong Gateway & Kong Mesh
• GitOps (Akuity)
• Buildkite
• Terraform
• Helm
• Ansible
• Vault
• Datadog
• PagerDuty

Requirements

• Proven experience leading multiple engineering teams, ideally in Platform Engineering, infrastructure, SRE, DevOps, or a related field.
• Experience leading and developing Engineering Managers and engineers, with a track record of building high-performing teams.
• Track record of delivering platform capabilities or internal products at scale that improve developer productivity, reliability, or operational efficiency.
• Experience setting direction and translating strategy into execution, aligning teams around clear priorities and measurable outcomes.
• Collaboration with Product and Engineering leadership to shape roadmaps, prioritize investments, and manage competing demands.
• Experience building or scaling internal developer platforms and self-service capabilities, with a strong understanding of platform-as-a-product principles and driving adoption.
• Experience using platform metrics and developer feedback to measure adoption, developer experience, reliability, and outcomes, and using insights to inform priorities.
• Strong technical understanding of platform architecture, distributed systems, and modern software delivery, with the ability to influence technical direction and evaluate trade-offs.
• Experience with modern platform technologies and practices such as Kubernetes, AWS, GitOps, CI/CD, Infrastructure as Code, and observability.
• Understanding of how AI-assisted development and agent-based workflows are changing platform interactions, tooling, and infrastructure.
• Strong stakeholder management, communication, and influencing skills, with the ability to work effectively across Engineering, Product, Security, and senior leadership.
• A mindset of ownership, accountability, and continuous improvement, fostering the same culture across multiple teams.

Don’t check all the boxes? That’s okay! We encourage you to apply if you possess adjacent skills and are interested in learning more.

About the company

FanDuel Group is the premier mobile gaming company in the United States and Canada, with a portfolio of leading brands including FanDuel Sportsbook, FanDuel Casino, FanDuel Racing, and daily fantasy sports. We also operate FanDuel TV and FanDuel TV+, our linear cable and direct-to-consumer OTT platforms. With a presence across all 50 states, Canada, and Puerto Rico, FanDuel Group is headquartered in New York, with additional US offices in Los Angeles, Atlanta, and Jersey City, as well as global offices in Canada and Scotland. We are a subsidiary of Flutter Entertainment, the world’s largest sports betting and gaming operator, traded on the New York Stock Exchange (NYSE: FLUT).

Benefits

• Comprehensive health plans (some as low as $0 per paycheck), including fertility and family planning support, mental health resources, and fitness benefits.
• Generous paid time off (PTO and sick leave), 14 paid company holidays, and paid sick time in accordance with state and federal laws.
• Annual bonus and long-term incentive opportunities based on performance.
• 401(k) with up to a 5% match.
• Commuter benefits and pet insurance.

*Benefits differ across location, role, and level.

Pay

The salary range for this position is $183,000 - $229,000 USD, dependent on relevant experience, location, business needs, and market demand. This role may also be eligible for short-term or long-term incentive compensation, including cash bonuses and stock program participation.