Senior Platform Engineering Manager

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THE POSITION
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As a Senior Platform Engineering Manager, you’ll lead Engineering Managers and Platform Engineers across multiple teams within Platform Engineering. You’ll be responsible for leading the delivery and improvement of the internal platform capabilities that enable engineers and AI agents to build, deploy and operate software safely and efficiently.

You’ll be responsible for developing managers and engineers, setting direction across your area and ensuring teams are focused on the right priorities. Alongside your broader leadership responsibilities, you’ll remain close to the delivery and development of the teams and people you directly manage.

Working closely with Engineering, Product and Security, you’ll shape the roadmap for your area, manage priorities and dependencies across teams, and turn common engineering needs into reusable, self-service platform capabilities. As AI becomes a bigger part of software development, you’ll also help shape how our platform supports engineers and AI-driven workflows safely and at scale.

Reporting to the Platform Engineering Director, you’ll combine strong organizational leadership with strong technical judgement to influence technical direction, challenge decisions and create an environment where teams can deliver effectively.

In addition to the specific responsibilities outlined above, employees may be required to perform other such duties as assigned by the Company. This ensures operational flexibility and allows the Company to meet evolving business needs.

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

• Leading Engineering Managers and Platform Engineers across multiple teams, providing direction, alignment and support to help teams deliver and grow.
• Developing managers and engineers through regular coaching, feedback and career development.
• Translating Platform Engineering strategy into clear priorities and outcomes, ensuring teams understand what matters and why.
• Working closely with Product to shape roadmaps, prioritize investment and ensure platform capabilities address the needs of our internal customers.
• Driving the development and adoption of our Internal Developer Platform, including developer tooling, workflows, APIs, templates, integrations and platform services.
• Enabling teams to deliver platform capabilities for engineers and AI agents, with a focus on self-service, automation and secure-by-default ways of working.
• Providing technical and organizational leadership, influencing architecture and engineering direction while ensuring teams make sound technical decisions.
• Managing priorities, dependencies and trade-offs across teams, working across Engineering, Product and Security to remove blockers and drive outcomes.
• Driving platform reliability and operational maturity, using SLOs, observability, incidents and operational data to identify and prioritize improvements.
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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 any 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.

FanDuel is committed to providing reasonable accommodations for qualified individuals with disabilities. If you have a disability and need a workplace accommodation or adjustment during the application and hiring process, including support for the interview or onboarding process, please email Benefits@fanduel.com .

The applicable salary range for this position is $183,000 - $275,000 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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