FanDuel Group is a world-class team of brands and products that deliver sports betting, gaming and entertainment to millions of US sports fans every day. That’s no easy task, and wouldn't be possible without a fantastic team who have helped us pioneer new products and innovative features that make us a leader in the industry. Whether you’re looking for better career progression, improved financial security or just a better sense of belonging, we believe we’ve created a culture in which everyone can succeed, no matter how you got here. 

The Position

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. As a Lead Site Reliability Engineer working for our Casino domain, you will work amongst multidisciplinary teams, tackling complex challenges that provide the very best experiences and products as we build out an exciting and innovative customer experience within the fast paced and growing Casino environment.

• Thrive on technological advancement of the team and always working towards its improvement.             
• Understand the business impact of your systems and show good judgement when making technical trade-offs between your teams short- term business or operational needs and long-term technology needs.
• Are a key influencer in team strategy. You drive mindful discussions with customers and peers.
• Bring perspective and provide context for current technology choices and guide future technology choices.
• Code submissions and approach to work are exemplary - your solutions are inventive, secure, easily maintainable, appropriately scaleable, and extensible.
• Practice continuous analysis of the existing infrastructure from the reliability perspective, focused on removing performance bottlenecks and optimising the infrastructure, toolkit, and workflows associated with its operation. 

What We're Looking For

• Experienced with application observability, preferably Datadog.
• Ability to build and maintain a system and culture that supports and implements SLOs.
• Experienced in AWS - everything from IAM, Lambda, Cloudfront, RDS and Dynamo.
• Familiar with Docker, Terraform, Kubernetes and Helm.
• Code in one or more programming languages, such as Python, Node.JS or Java.
• Familiar with CI/CD pipelines such as BuildKite, Artifactory, GitHub Actions or others.
• Familiar with Git and GitHub.  

What You Can Expect

• Interesting work - working in a fast-paced and ever-changing industry, new problems and exciting solutions are never too far away. There are always opportunities to learn new skills and broaden your horizons.
• A sense of achievement - Our teams own their own software and when that awesome new feature ships to users and the positive feedback starts rolling in, you can feel really proud of what you and your team created.
• Personal development - clear and defined career pathways for every role at every level, a supportive manager, loads of learning opportunities and even 10% of your time to dedicate to your learning.
• Belonging - everyone at FanDuel works for each other, we win together, make mistakes together and have lots of fun doing it.
• Trust - A trusting work environment where productivity is valued above all else, giving you autonomy and ownership of your time and work.
• Great financial package - Including salary, bonus, pension, private healthcare, share save scheme, flexible working & holiday policy along with a number of other benefits.

The Interview Process

• Recruiter Screen (30 Minutes) 
• Hiring Manager Interview (45 Minutes)
• Technical Interview: Architecture and Coding (2 Hours) 
• Manager Interview: Cultural fit, FanDuel Principles and Product (45 Minutes) 

Diversity, Equity and Inclusion

FanDuel is an equal opportunities employer. Diversity and inclusion in FanDuel means that we respect and value everyone as individuals. We don't tolerate bias, judgement or harassment. Our focus is on developing employees so that they reach their full potential.

The requirements listed in our job descriptions are guidelines, not hard and fast rules. You don’t have to satisfy every requirement or meet every qualification listed. If your skills are transferable and you are in the ballpark experience-wise, we'd love to speak to you!

Location

Our Casino team are predominantly based in Leeds/Yorkshire and therefore we are looking for our next team mate to be within a commutable distance from Leeds to allow for in person collaboration which we anticipate will be 1-2 times a month. There will also be quarterly meet ups in our office in Edinburgh.