Infrastructure Engineering Director
FanDuel · Atlanta, Georgia, United States
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, ensuring operational excellence and reliability across various domains like compute, networking, and Kubernetes. Your role involves establishing standards, managing vendor relationships, and driving improvements in performance and cost management while building a disciplined infrastructure team. You will also partner with engineering and product teams to align infrastructure capabilities with business needs.
- benefits
- 4/5
- 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 including VPCs, networking, IAM, EC2, EKS
- Experience defining and driving platform, reliability, or infrastructure strategy
- Proven ability to establish operational discipline with documented runbooks and incident response frameworks
- Experience designing and implementing disaster recovery strategies
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 based on performance
- 401k with up to a 5% match
- Commuter benefits
- Pet insurance
Worth weighing
- Role includes significant hands-on technical leadership responsibilities
- Position requires managing vendor relationships and cloud costs, which may involve complex negotiations
- No specific mention of remote work flexibility, although it is labeled as hybrid
- Salary range is provided, but actual compensation may vary based on several factors
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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