Principal Platform Engineer

About Betfair Romania Development

Betfair Romania Development is the largest technology hub of Flutter Entertainment, with over 2,000 people powering the world’s leading sports betting and iGaming brands. Exciting, immersive and safe experiences are delivered to over 18 million customers worldwide, from our office in Cluj-Napoca. Driven by relentless innovation and commitment to excellence, we operate our own unbeatable portfolio of diverse proprietary brands such as FanDuel, PokerStars, SportsBet, Betfair, Paddy Power, or Sky Betting & Gaming.

Our Values

The values we share at Betfair Romania Development define what makes us unique as a team. They empower us by giving meaning to our contributions, and they ensure that we consistently strive for excellence in everything we do. We are looking for passionate individuals who align with our values and are committed to making a difference.

• Win together
• Raise the bar
• Got your back
• Own it
• Positive impact

About FanDuel

FanDuel is a leading force in the sports-tech entertainment industry, redefining how fans engage with their favorite sports, teams, and leagues. As the premier gaming destination in North America, FanDuel operates across multiple verticals, including sports betting, daily fantasy sports, online gaming, advance-deposit wagering, and media.

Role Overview

As a Principal Platform Engineer, you will play a key role in designing, building, and scaling the infrastructure and internal tooling that powers our engineering teams. You’ll focus on delivering secure, scalable, and developer-friendly platform capabilities that accelerate product delivery while improving operational efficiency and resilience.

In this hands-on role, you’ll work closely with engineers and cross-functional teams to evolve our core platform - contributing to areas such as deployment workflows, observability, data services, and networking. You will be a strong individual contributor who also mentors others and champions best practices across the team. Your work will enable autonomy, consistency, and security across the engineering organization.

Key Accountabilities & Responsibilities

• Designing and implementing platform features and infrastructure that support the scalability, security, and reliability of our systems.
• Building reusable, self-service components that abstract complexity and improve developer productivity.
• Writing high-quality, maintainable code and applying infrastructure-as-code principles for repeatable, auditable changes.
• Partnering with product, security, and operations teams to align on requirements and ensure solutions meet evolving business and technical needs.
• Participating in design and architecture discussions to ensure platform scalability, reliability, and long-term maintainability.
• Supporting incident response and contributing to post-incident reviews and platform reliability improvements.
• Driving adoption of best practices in automation, observability, and secure-by-default infrastructure design.
• Mentoring junior engineers and contributing to a culture of learning, collaboration, and technical excellence.
• Taking part in a shared on-call rotation, supporting platform services and contributing to incident resolution and reliability improvements.

Skills, Capabilities & Experience Required

• Significant hands-on experience in platform engineering, SRE, infrastructure, or DevOps roles.
• Proficiency with Kubernetes, cloud infrastructure (AWS), containerization, IaC (e.g. Terraform) and configuration management (e.g. Ansible).
• A strong background in system design, distributed systems, and software engineering principles.
• Experience building internal platform capabilities such as deployment systems, monitoring/observability tooling, or infrastructure automation.
• Solid understanding of CI/CD principles, pipeline design, and operational best practices.
• Strong problem-solving skills, with the ability to navigate complexity and make sound technical decisions.
• Excellent collaboration and communication skills, with the ability to work across teams and disciplines.
• A mindset of ownership and continuous improvement, with a passion for creating scalable and developer-friendly systems.
• A Sneak Peek Into Our Tech Stack: AWS, Kubernetes, Terraform, Helm, Ansible, Vault, Datadog and PagerDuty

Benefits

• Hybrid & remote working options
• €1,000 per year for self-development
• Company share scheme
• 25 days of annual leave per year
• 20 days per year to work abroad
• 5 personal days/year
• Flexible benefits: travel, sports, hobbies
• Extended health, dental and travel insurances
• Customized well-being programmes
• Career growth sessions
• Thousands of online courses through Udemy
• A variety of engaging office events

Key skills/competency

• Kubernetes
• AWS
• Terraform
• CI/CD
• Distributed Systems
• SRE
• Platform Engineering
• Automation
• Observability
• DevOps