Infrastructure Engineering Director
FanDuel · New York City
Posted about 3 months ago · $197,000 - 246,000
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Is this posting real?
- This role has been open
- 81 days FanDuel's roles stay open a median of 79 days
- Reposted
- No
- Salary listed
- Yes 74% of FanDuel's roles list one
- Ghost-job risk at FanDuel
- high 86 stale, 4 reposted of 86 open
- Hiring momentum
- 140 roles opened in the last 90 days ↑ up vs. the prior 90 days
- Last confirmed on the employer's board
- 2026-10-23
Measured from postings appearing on and disappearing from FanDuel's own greenhouse board since 2026-08-03. Full hiring picture for FanDuel.
About this role
As the Infrastructure Engineering Director at FanDuel, you will lead the foundational cloud and outpost-based infrastructure, focusing on operational excellence, standardization, and reliability across various domains including compute, networking, and Kubernetes. Your role involves managing vendor relationships, overseeing cloud spend and capacity planning, and driving improvements in reliability and performance while building and mentoring a strong infrastructure team. You will also establish disaster recovery strategies and operational disciplines to support the company's rapid scaling across new markets.
- benefits
- 5/5
- freshness
- 1/5
- career value
- 5/5
- role clarity
- 5/5
- pay transparency
- 5/5
Scored from the posting itself — how clearly the role is described, how much it says about pay and benefits, and how recently it was listed. Not a judgement of FanDuel as an employer.
What you need
- Significant experience leading platform engineering, SRE, or infrastructure organizations
- Deep expertise in Kubernetes architecture, operations, and scaling
- Strong hands-on understanding of AWS cloud infrastructure: VPCs, networking, IAM, EC2, EKS
- Experience defining and driving platform, reliability, or infrastructure strategy
- Proven ability to establish operational discipline: documented runbooks, change management processes
- Experience designing and implementing disaster recovery, RTO/RPO definitions, failover testing
Nice to have
- Experience with service mesh platforms (Kong Mesh, Istio, Linkerd, or Envoy-based systems)
- Hands-on experience managing AWS Outposts or hybrid cloud infrastructure
- Experience operating infrastructure in regulated industries
- CNCF Kubernetes certifications (CKA, CKS, CKAD)
- Familiarity with observability platforms like Datadog, Prometheus, and tracing systems
What you get
- Array of health plans including 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
- 401k with up to a 5% match
- Commuter benefits
- Pet insurance
Worth weighing
- No specific mention of remote work flexibility, though the role is marked as hybrid
- The role requires a strong focus on operational discipline and unglamorous work, which may not appeal to everyone
- The salary range is provided but is dependent on various factors, which may lead to uncertainty for candidates
Summarised from FanDuel's posting. Read the full original.
Listed by FanDuel on their greenhouse job board, last confirmed open on 2026-10-23. PitchMeAI is not the employer.
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