Senior Site Reliability Engineer

ABOUT FANDUEL

FanDuel Group (“FanDuel") is an innovative sports-tech entertainment company that is changing the way consumers engage with their favorite sports, teams, and leagues. The premier gaming destination in the United States, FanDuel consists of a portfolio of leading brands across gaming, sports betting, daily fantasy sports, advance-deposit wagering, and TV/media. 

FanDuel has a presence across all 50 states with approximately 17 million customers and 28 retail locations. FanDuel is based in New York with offices in New Jersey, Georgia, California, Oregon, Canada and Scotland.

Its networks FanDuel TV and FanDuel+ are broadly distributed on linear cable television and through its relationships with leading direct-to-consumer over-the-top platforms.

FanDuel Group is a subsidiary of Flutter Entertainment plc, 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 ROSTER
At FanDuel, we give fans a new and innovative way to interact with their favorite games, sports and teams. We’re dedicated to building a winning team and we pride ourselves on being able to make every moment mean more, especially when it comes to your career. So, what does “winning” look like at FanDuel? It’s recognition for your hard-earned results, a culture that brings out your best work—and a roster full of talented coworkers. Make no mistake, we are here to win, but we believe in winning right. That means we’ll never compromise when it comes to looking out for our teammates. From creatives professionals to cutting edge technology innovators, FanDuel offers a wide range of career opportunities, best in class benefits, and the tools to explore and grow into your best selves. At FanDuel, our principle of “We Are One Team” runs through all our offices across the globe, and you can expect to be a part of an exciting company with many opportunities to grow and be successful.

THE POSITION
Our roster has an opening with your name on it

We’re looking for passionate & experienced technologists, strong communicators and those with a commitment to continuous improvement. The ideal candidate will have the confidence to propose pragmatic solutions to complex problems and be eager to learn from and educate others.

We are looking for a Senior Site Reliability Engineer to deliver game-changing improvements for FanDuel and to help our systems to become even more resilient.

 

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

• Take active part in the production problem root cause investigation, identification, and resolution (where necessary);
• Maintain, improve and troubleshoot our core systems used by several teams, some of those are AWS, Storm, Nimbus, Kafka, Zookeeper, Elasticsearch, Cassandra, ActiveMQ, Brooklin, etc.;
• Preventive monitoring;
• Implement and maintain Service Level Objectives (SLOs)
• Iteratively improve monitoring & alerting
• Reduce Toil;
• Reduce or eliminate manual/repetitive tasks
• Improving the resilience and reliability of the systems to reduce or eliminate manual intervention on service recovery
• Develop and/or implement tools that will help the team(s) to perform their work more efficiently;
• Contribute to planning and development of our technological stack;
• Team player on an Agile team, working together to keep delivering at pace, scale and with demanded quality to support our products

 

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

• Degree in Computer Science, related field, or equivalent work experience
• Familiar with SRE and DevOps methodologies
• Good Linux systems administration & Networking knowledge
• Experience on configuration management tools like Ansible or Chef
• Ability to debug and optimize code on at least one of the following programming languages: Python, Golang, Ruby or Scala
• Familiar with CD/CI pipelines comprising Jenkins, Git, Artifactory, Go, Ansible, and more
• Technical experience in managing a highly available and highly scalable public /private cloud environment (e.g. AWS, OpenStack, Azure)
• Nice to have hands-on knowledge of container orchestration (e.g. Kubernetes, Openshift);
• Work closely with the development teams and principal engineers ensuring great collaboration is taking place across the whole technology team supporting and improving CI/CD.
• You will be a passionate technologist who is excited about automation and engineering, and building future proof production reliable platforms.
•  Help to maintain a set of key reliability metrics li