FanDuel Edinburgh, Scotland, United Kingdom

Platform Engineering Manager - SRE

FanDuel Edinburgh, Scotland, United Kingdom

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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.

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 seeking a passionate and experienced Platform Engineering Manager to lead within our Reliability Engineering domain. This role involves managing and mentoring a team of engineers, driving continuous improvement, and delivering scalable, high-quality solutions. You’ll provide strategic and technical direction, collaborate on long-term planning, and contribute to building an innovative customer experience. Strong communication skills, a commitment to learning, and the ability to propose pragmatic solutions to complex problems are key. You’ll represent your team, shape its structure and output, and align your work with FanDuel’s broader goals and values.

Some of your responsibilities will include:

• Lead and manage a team of Platform Engineers, aligning team functions and objectives with organisational goals, while ensuring capacity planning and preventing burnout.
• Collaborate with senior engineers and stakeholders to define and deliver scalable, cost-conscious, and secure technical solutions that prioritise customer satisfaction.
• Guide the team in owning and supporting infrastructure systems, ensuring high-quality internal and external user experience.
• Proactively identify technical risks and implement mitigation strategies to protect delivery timelines and quality.
• Coordinate incident response with sensible remediation actions and timely stakeholder updates.
  
  
  

• Strong people management and coaching skills, with a focus on performance management, personal development, and team morale even under pressure.
• Proven ability to mentor engineers to improve code quality, platform resilience, and engineering best practices.
• Experience managing scalable, highly available cloud environments, preferably in AWS, with an understanding of SRE principles, observability, and performance testing tools.
• Technically capable of reading code and advocating for maintainable, testable, and well-monitored solutions.
• Excellent interpersonal skills, with the ability to build effective cross-team relationships and align engineering efforts with business goals.
• Skilled in communication, facilitation, and presentation, with the ability to represent technical topics clearly to a range of audiences.
  
  
  

• 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.
  
  
  

• Recruiter Screening - 30mins
• Competency Interview - 60mins
• Technical Paired Programming Exercise - 60mins
  
  
  

Seniority level

• Seniority level

  Mid-Senior level

Employment type

• Employment type

  Full-time

Job function

• Job function

  Engineering and Information Technology

• Industries

  Gambling Facilities and Casinos and Spectator Sports

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