Senior Platform Engineering Manager

FanDuel • Atlanta, GA

9h • $183,000 - $229,000 • Hybrid

About The Position

As a Senior Platform Engineering Manager, you’ll lead Engineering Managers and Platform Engineers across multiple teams within Platform Engineering. You’ll be responsible for leading the delivery and improvement of the internal platform capabilities that enable engineers and AI agents to build, deploy and operate software safely and efficiently. You’ll be responsible for developing managers and engineers, setting direction across your area and ensuring teams are focused on the right priorities. Alongside your broader leadership responsibilities, you’ll remain close to the delivery and development of the teams and people you directly manage. Working closely with Engineering, Product and Security, you’ll shape the roadmap for your area, manage priorities and dependencies across teams, and turn common engineering needs into reusable, self-service platform capabilities. As AI becomes a bigger part of software development, you’ll also help shape how our platform supports engineers and AI-driven workflows safely and at scale. Reporting to the Platform Engineering Director, you’ll combine strong organizational leadership with strong technical judgement to influence technical direction, challenge decisions and create an environment where teams can deliver effectively. In addition to the specific responsibilities outlined above, employees may be required to perform other such duties as assigned by the Company. This ensures operational flexibility and allows the Company to meet evolving business needs.

Requirements

• Proven experience leading across multiple engineering teams, ideally within Platform Engineering, infrastructure, SRE, DevOps or a related engineering environment.
• Experience leading and developing Engineering Managers and engineers, with a track record of building strong, high-performing teams.
• A track record of delivering platform capabilities or internal products at scale that improve developer productivity, reliability or operational efficiency.
• Experience setting direction and translating strategy into execution, aligning multiple teams around clear priorities and measurable outcomes.
• Experience working closely with Product and Engineering leadership to shape roadmaps, prioritize investment and manage competing demands.
• Experience building or scaling internal developer platforms and self-service capabilities, with a strong understanding of platform-as-a-product principles and experience driving adoption across an engineering organization.
• Experience using platform metrics and developer feedback to measure adoption, developer experience, reliability and outcomes, and using those insights to inform priorities and investment.
• Strong technical understanding of platform architecture, distributed systems and modern software delivery, with the ability to influence technical direction and evaluate trade-offs at an organizational level.
• Experience with modern platform technologies and practices such as Kubernetes, AWS, GitOps, CI/CD, Infrastructure as Code and observability.
• An understanding of how AI-assisted development and agent-based workflows are changing how engineers interact with platforms, tooling and infrastructure.
• Strong stakeholder management, communication and influencing skills, with the ability to work effectively across Engineering, Product, Security and senior leadership.
• A mindset of ownership, accountability and continuous improvement, with the ability to create the same culture across multiple teams.

Nice To Haves

• Don’t check all the boxes? That’s okay! We encourage you to still apply if you feel like you possess an adjacent skill set and are interested in learning more about this position.

Responsibilities

• Leading Engineering Managers and Platform Engineers across multiple teams, providing direction, alignment and support to help teams deliver and grow.
• Developing managers and engineers through regular coaching, feedback and career development.
• Translating Platform Engineering strategy into clear priorities and outcomes, ensuring teams understand what matters and why.
• Working closely with Product to shape roadmaps, prioritize investment and ensure platform capabilities address the needs of our internal customers.
• Driving the development and adoption of our Internal Developer Platform, including developer tooling, workflows, APIs, templates, integrations and platform services.
• Enabling teams to deliver platform capabilities for engineers and AI agents, with a focus on self-service, automation and secure-by-default ways of working.
• Providing technical and organizational leadership, influencing architecture and engineering direction while ensuring teams make sound technical decisions.
• Managing priorities, dependencies and trade-offs across teams, working across Engineering, Product and Security to remove blockers and drive outcomes.
• Driving platform reliability and operational maturity, using SLOs, observability, incidents and operational data to identify and prioritize improvements.
• Using platform metrics and developer feedback to understand adoption, developer experience, reliability and the impact of platform investments.
• Championing engineering standards across automation, code quality, observability, security, Infrastructure as Code and operational excellence.
• Building organizational capability, including workforce planning, hiring, succession planning and developing future technical and people leaders.

Benefits

• array of health plans to choose from (some as low as $0 per paycheck) that include programs for fertility and family planning, mental health support, and fitness benefits.
• generous paid time off (PTO & sick leave)
• annual bonus and long-term incentive opportunities (based on performance)
• 401k with up to a 5% match
• commuter benefits
• pet insurance
• medical, vision, and dental insurance
• life insurance
• disability insurance
• a 401(k) matching program
• short-term or long-term incentive compensation, including, but not limited to, cash bonuses and stock program participation.
• paid personal time off
• 14 paid company holidays
• paid sick time in accordance with all applicable state and federal laws.

What This Job Offers

• Job Type: Full-time
• Career Level: Senior
• Education Level: No Education Listed