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About the Role

Design, build, and mature the service connectivity platform that underpins how FanDuel services communicate with each other and the outside world. Focus on delivering secure, scalable, and reliable connectivity across a hybrid cloud environment through service mesh, ingress, gateway APIs, TLS, and edge-routing capabilities.

Responsibilities

• Define and drive the service connectivity strategy and roadmap across multiple teams.
• Mature the Kong Gateway and Kong Mesh rollout into a production-grade platform.
• Design and evolve scalable connectivity capabilities spanning service mesh, ingress, gateways, TLS and certificate automation, DNS, and L7 edge routing.
• Establish best practices for service-to-service communication, zero-trust networking, traffic management, and certificate lifecycle management.
• Build infrastructure-as-code, tooling, automation, and platform guardrails.
• Lead cross-team initiatives to improve connectivity reliability and platform-level resilience.
• Leverage automation and AI-assisted workflows to accelerate root cause analysis.
• Lead complex production incident response across Kubernetes networking, ingress, DNS, load balancing, service mesh, and cloud edge infrastructure.
• Steward connectivity platforms operating under strict regulatory and compliance requirements.
• Partner with engineering and product leadership to influence platform direction and strategy.
• Evaluate build-versus-buy decisions and vendor capabilities.
• Mentor engineers and raise the connectivity and platform networking maturity across the organization.

Requirements

• Significant hands-on experience in platform engineering, SRE, cloud infrastructure, or related fields.
• Strong expertise in modern service mesh technologies (e.g. Istio, Kong Mesh, Linkerd, or Envoy-based platforms).
• Deep expertise in Kubernetes networking and service connectivity.
• Working knowledge of AWS networking primitives such as VPCs, Route 53, PrivateLink, ALB/NLB, and CloudFront.
• Experience defining and driving platform, reliability, or connectivity strategy across teams.
• Strong understanding of distributed systems principles.
• Experience defining and implementing SLOs, SLIs, and alerting strategies.
• Strong software engineering fundamentals, including proficiency in at least one modern programming language (e.g. Go, Java, Python, or TypeScript).
• Experience implementing zero-trust networking principles.
• Experience driving large-scale operational improvements through automation.
• Strong analytical and communication skills.
• A mindset of ownership, continuous improvement, and long-term platform sustainability.
• Hands-on experience with Kong Gateway and/or Kong Mesh (Bonus).
• Familiarity with eBPF-based networking technologies such as Cilium (Bonus).
• CNCF Kubernetes certifications (CKA, CKS, or CKAD) (Bonus).
• Experience operating in regulated industries (Bonus).

Skills

• Service Mesh
• Kong Gateway
• Kong Mesh
• mTLS enforcement
• Traffic policy design
• Service-to-service security patterns
• Kubernetes networking
• CNIs
• Ingress controllers
• Gateway APIs
• Distributed systems
• AWS networking
• VPC
• Route 53
• PrivateLink
• ALB/NLB
• CloudFront
• SLOs
• SLIs
• Alerting
• Go
• Java
• Python
• TypeScript
• Zero-trust networking
• Infrastructure-as-code
• Tooling
• Automation
• Platform guardrails
• Incident response
• Regulatory compliance
• Change management
• eBPF
• Cilium

Location

• New York
• Los Angeles
• Atlanta
• Jersey City

Work Type

• Hybrid

Experience Level

• Staff

Salary/Compensations

• $159,000 - $208,950 USD

Benefits

• Health plans (some as low as $0 per paycheck)
• Fertility and family planning programs
• Mental health support
• Fitness benefits
• Generous paid time off (PTO & sick leave)
• Annual bonus
• Long-term incentive opportunities
• 401k with up to a 5% match
• Commuter benefits
• Pet insurance
• Medical insurance
• Vision insurance
• Dental insurance
• Life insurance
• Disability insurance
• 401(k) matching program
• Short-term or long-term incentive compensation
• Cash bonuses
• Stock program participation
• 14 paid company holidays
• Paid sick time

About the Company

• FanDuel Group is the premier mobile gaming company in the United States and Canada.
• FanDuel Group consists of a portfolio of leading brands across mobile wagering including: America’s #1 Sportsbook, FanDuel Sportsbook; its leading iGaming platform, FanDuel Casino; the industry’s unquestioned leader in horse racing and advance-deposit wagering, FanDuel Racing; and its daily fantasy sports product.
• In addition, FanDuel Group operates FanDuel TV, its broadly distributed linear cable television network and FanDuel TV+, its leading direct-to-consumer OTT platform.
• FanDuel Group has a presence across all 50 states, Canada, and Puerto Rico.
• The company is based in New York with US offices in Los Angeles, Atlanta, and Jersey City, as well as global offices in Canada and Scotland.
• The company’s affiliates have offices worldwide, including in Ireland, Portugal, Romania, and Australia.
• FanDuel Group is a subsidiary of Flutter Entertainment, the world's largest sports betting and gaming operator with a portfolio of globally recognized brands and traded on the New York Stock Exchange (NYSE: FLUT).

Equal Opportunity

• FanDuel is an equal opportunities employer and we believe, as one of our principles states, “We are One Team!”. As such, we are committed to equal employment opportunity regardless of race, color, ethnicity, ancestry, religion, creed, sex, national origin, sexual orientation, age, citizenship status, marital status, disability, gender identity, gender expression, veteran status, or any other characteristic protected by state, local or federal law.
• We believe FanDuel is strongest and best able to compete if all employees feel valued, respected, and included.
• FanDuel is committed to providing reasonable accommodations for qualified individuals with disabilities.
• It is unlawful in Massachusetts to require or administer a lie detector test as a condition of employment or continued employment. An employer who violates this law shall be subject to criminal penalties and civil liability.