Site Reliability Engineer (Remote-US)

ABOUT FANDUEL GROUP

FanDuel Group is a world-class team of brands and products all built with one goal in mind — to give fans new and innovative ways to interact with their favorite games, sports, teams, and leagues. That’s no easy task, which is why we’re so dedicated to building a winning team. And 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 our many opportunities for professional development to our generous insurance and paid leave policies, we’re committed to making sure our employees get as much out of FanDuel as we ask them to give.

Our brands include:

• FanDuel — A game-changing real-money fantasy sports app
• FanDuel Sportsbook — America’s #1 sports betting app
• FanDuel TV — "The Bettor Sports Network" bringing live sports and interactive content to the games fans care about most
• FanDuel Racing — A horse racing app built for the average sports fan
• FanDuel Casino & Betfair Casino — Fan-favorite online casino apps
• FOXBet — A world-class betting platform and affiliate of FanDuel Group
• PokerStars — The premier online poker product and affiliate of FanDuel Group

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 Site Reliability Engineer (SRE) 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);
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• 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.;
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• Preventive monitoring;
• Implement and maintain Service Level Objectives (SLOs)
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• Iteratively improve monitoring & alerting
• Reduce Toil;
• Reduce or eliminate manual/repetitive tasks
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• 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;
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• Contribute to planning and development of our technological stack;
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• 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
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• Familiar with SRE and DevOps methodologies
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• Good Linux systems administration & Networking knowledge
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• Experience on configuration management tools like Ansible or Chef
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• Ability to debug and optimize code on at least one of the following programming languages: Python, Golang, Ruby or Scala
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• Familiar with CD/CI pipelines comprising Jenkins, Git, Artifactory, Go, Ansible, and more
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• Technical experience in managing a highly available and highly scalable public /private cloud environment (e.g. AWS, OpenStack, Azure)
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• Nice to have hands-on knowledge of container orchestration (e.g. Kubernetes, Openshift);
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• Work closely with the development teams supporting and improving CI/CD.
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• Working with other engineers to deliver a smooth automation process from the start to the end of the project lifecycle.
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• You will be a passionate technologist who is excited about automation and engineering, and building future proof production reliable platforms.
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•  Help to maintain a set of key reliability metrics like SLA’s, SLI’s and SLO’s.
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• System provisioning and automation, monitoring, metrics, scalability, security and hardening.
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• Excellent communicator, common sense and a passion for the art of problem-solving.

THE CONTRACT: 

We treat our team right

Competitive compensation is just the beginning. As part of our team, you can expect:

• An exciting and fun environment committed to driving real growth
• Opportunities to build really cool products that fans love
• Mentorship and professional development resources to help you refine your game
• Flexible vacation allowance to let you refuel
• Hall of Fame benefit programs and platforms

FanDuel Group 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.

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