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, delivering and improving the internal platform capabilities that enable engineers and AI agents to build, deploy, and operate software safely and efficiently.

About the role

You’ll develop managers and engineers, set direction, and ensure teams focus on the right priorities while remaining hands-on with delivery. Working closely with Engineering, Product, and Security, you’ll shape the roadmap, manage cross-team priorities, 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 combine organizational leadership with technical judgment to influence direction, challenge decisions, and foster an environment where teams deliver effectively.

Responsibilities

• Lead Engineering Managers and Platform Engineers across multiple teams, providing direction, alignment, and support.
• Develop managers and engineers through coaching, feedback, and career development.
• Translate Platform Engineering strategy into clear priorities and outcomes for teams.
• Collaborate with Product to shape roadmaps, prioritize investments, and address internal customer needs.
• Drive the development and adoption of our Internal Developer Platform, including tooling, workflows, APIs, templates, integrations, and 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.
• Manage priorities, dependencies, and trade-offs across teams, removing blockers in collaboration with Engineering, Product, and Security.
• Drive platform reliability and operational maturity using SLOs, observability, incidents, and operational data.
• Use platform metrics and developer feedback to measure adoption, developer experience, reliability, and impact.
• Champion engineering standards for automation, code quality, observability, security, Infrastructure as Code, and operational excellence.
• Build organizational capability through workforce planning, hiring, succession planning, and developing future 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 related fields.
• 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 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.
• Experience using platform metrics and developer feedback to measure adoption, developer experience, reliability, and outcomes.
• Strong technical understanding of platform architecture, distributed systems, and modern software delivery.
• Ability to influence technical direction and evaluate trade-offs at an organizational level.
• 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.
• Strong stakeholder management, communication, and influencing skills across Engineering, Product, Security, and senior leadership.
• Mindset of ownership, accountability, and continuous improvement, fostering this culture across 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 U.S. 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 OTT platforms. With a presence across all 50 states, Canada, and Puerto Rico, we’re based in New York with offices in Los Angeles, Atlanta, Jersey City, and globally in Canada and Scotland. FanDuel Group is a subsidiary of Flutter Entertainment, the world’s largest sports betting and gaming operator (NYSE: FLUT).

Benefits

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

*Benefits differ across location, role, and level.

Pay

The salary range for this position is $183,000 - $229,000 USD, dependent on 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.