Senior Observability Engineer

FanDuel
Jersey City, NJ
Category Engineering
Job Description
Role Overview

Design, build, and mature the observability ecosystem that underpins FanDuel's platform and services. Partner with engineering and product teams to deliver scalable observability capabilities and serve as a subject matter expert in monitoring, alerting, and incident management.

What You Will Do

Deliver deep visibility into system behavior, combine system telemetry with user signals, and provide a holistic view of performance, reliability, and user experience. Explore how AI and machine learning can enhance observability and drive improvements in reliability, performance, and data-informed decision-making.

Why It Might Be a Fit

Contribute to the observability strategy and roadmap, design scalable observability solutions, and help establish best practices for monitoring, alerting, and incident management. Collaborate on cross-team initiatives to improve system reliability and apply automation and AI-assisted workflows to improve root cause analysis.

Requirements

  • Solid hands-on experience in observability engineering, SRE, platform engineering, or related roles
  • Strong expertise in monitoring and observability practices
  • Experience contributing to observability or reliability initiatives across teams or services
  • Proficiency with Kubernetes, cloud infrastructure (e.g. AWS), and infrastructure-as-code tools such as Terraform
  • Ability to influence technical decisions within and across teams
  • Good understanding of distributed systems principles and practical trade-offs
  • Experience defining and implementing SLOs, SLIs, and alerting strategies
  • Strong software engineering fundamentals and proficiency in at least one modern programming language
  • Experience improving systems through automation and reducing operational toil

Benefits

  • Medical, vision, and dental insurance
  • Life insurance
  • Disability insurance
  • 401(k) matching program
  • Paid personal time off
  • 14 paid company holidays
  • Paid sick time
  • Annual bonus and long-term incentive opportunities
  • Commuter benefits
  • Pet insurance
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