Senior Observability Engineer

FanDuel
New York, NY
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, explore AI and machine learning to enhance observability, and equip teams with self-service insights and tooling. Drive improvements in reliability, performance, and data-informed decision-making across the organization.

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. Apply automation and AI-assisted workflows to improve root cause analysis and reduce operational toil.

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, with proficiency in at least one modern programming language
  • Experience improving systems through automation and reducing operational toil
  • Strong analytical and problem-solving skills

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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