Site Reliability Engineer - Edinburgh, United Kingdom - FanDuel

Description

FanDuel Group is a world-class team of brands and products that deliver sports betting, gaming and entertainment to millions of US sports fans, every day.

That's no easy task, and wouldn't be possible without a fantastic team who have helped us pioneer new products and innovative features that make us a leader in the industry.

Whether you're looking for better career progression, improved financial security or just a better sense of belonging we believe we've created a culture in which everyone can succeed, no matter how you got here.

Our Casino team are predominantly based in Leeds/Yorkshire and therefore we are looking for our next team mate to be within a commutable distance from Leeds to allow for in person collaboration which we anticipate will be 1-2 times a month.

There will also be quarterly meet ups in our office in Edinburgh.

Why FanDuel?

Autonomy, Flexibility, Growth and Development.

We're dedicated to creating a collaborative culture where every Engineer has a real impact. We are a tech forward organisation who work and move with pace.

Along with a competitive compensation package, we offer a highly flexible working environment and excellent career progression, along with a great environment committed to growth.

The Position - Site Reliability Engineer - Casino

We're looking for passionate & experienced technologists, strong communicators, and those with a commitment to continuous improvement.

The ideal candidate will have the confidence to propose pragmatic solutions to complex problems and be eager to learn from and educate others.

As a Site Reliability Engineer working for our Casino domain, you will work amongst multidisciplinary teams, effectively collaborate with your teammates in tackling complex challenges that provide the very best experiences and products as we build out an exciting and innovative customer experience within the fast paced and growing Casino environment.

You thrive on technological advancement of the team and always working towards its improvement.

You independently identify and deliver solutions that form part of a set of milestones spanning infrastructural changes of a multi-component system.

You are a key contributor in the team goals. You proactively participate in mindful discussions with customers and peers. You bring perspective and provide context for current technology choices and guide future technology choices. You translate ideas into clear code, written to be read as well as executed. You are capable of reading and navigating pipelines and infrastructure-as-code that you didn't author yourself.

You practise continuous analysis of the existing infrastructure from the reliability perspective, focused on removing performance bottlenecks and optimising the infrastructure, toolkit, and workflows associated with its operation.

Everyone on our team has a role to play; on a daily basis, you'll be involved in the following:

Take ownership of tasks assigned to you to optimise the SDLC in Casino.

Work with your team leaders to direct your focus and to ensure that you are working on the right problems for the wider team's benefit.

You are experienced in monitoring distributed systems while leveraging industry best practices.

Look for opportunities to help drive cost saving whilst maintaining service observability and engineering productivity.

Proactively contribute to your team goals such as error budget plans and automation that significantly reduce toil.

Actively perform auditing of performance and vulnerabilities, measuring system response time and ensuring high availability and reliability of our services.

You identify and advocate for improvement.

Stay vigilant for degradations in services owned by your team by tracking key metrics, and raise a risk or declare an incident when you have concerns.

Experience in building, managing and deploying containerised micro-services in a distributed infrastructure, AWS preferred.

Have experience of creating and troubleshooting CI/CD pipelines such as BuildKite and GitHub Actions.

Advocate for best practices that benefit your local team and the wider organisation.

Write and speak with clarity and focus. You seek to understand before being understood, listening to others before asking any clarifying questions.

Adjust your approach based on impact and risk, and share that rationale with relevant stakeholders.

Drive discussions with your manager about aspirational goals and seek out opportunities to learn and grow.

What we're looking for in our next team mate:

Familiar with monitoring technologies for application observability, Datadog preferred.

Ability to build and maintain a system and culture that supports and implements SLOs.

Familiar with AWS - everything from IAM, Lambda, Cloudfront, RDS and Dynamo.

Experience with Docker, Terraform, Kubernetes and Helm.

Code in one or more programming languages, such as Python, Node.
JS or Java.

Familiar with CI/CD pipelines such as BuildKite, Artifactory, GitHub Actions or others.

Familiar with Git and GitHub.

Knowing how an app should be designed and built for the cloud.

Strong sense of ownership, urgency, and drive.

Familiarity working in an agile environment.

Maintain relationships with other disciplines and stakeholders.

What You Can Expect

Interesting work - working in a fast-paced and ever-changing industry, new problems and exciting solutions are never too far away.

There are always opportunities to learn new skills and broaden your horizons

A sense of achievement - Our teams own their own software and when that awesome new feature ships to users and the positive feedback starts rolling in, you can feel really proud of what you and your team created

Personal development - clear and defined career pathways for every role at every level, a supportive manager, loads of learning opportunities and even 10% of your time to dedicate to your learning.

Belonging - everyone at FanDuel works for each other, we win together, make mistakes together and have lots of fun doing it.

Trust - A trusting work environment where productivity is valued above all else, giving you autonomy and ownership of your time and work

Great financial package - Including salary, bonus, pension, private healthcare, share save scheme, flexible working & holiday policy along with a number of other benefits.

The Interview Process

Recruiter Screen (30 Minutes)

Hiring Manager Interview (30 Minutes)

Technical Interview:
Architecture and Coding (1.5 Hours)

Manager Interview:
Cultural fit, FanDuel Principles and Product (45 Minutes)

Diversity, Equity and Inclusion

FanDuel is an equal opportunities employer. Diversity and inclusion in FanDuel means that we respect and value everyone as individuals. We don't tolerate bias, judgement or harassment. Our focus is on developing employees so that they reach their full potential.

The requirements listed in our job descriptions are guidelines, not hard and fast rules. You don't have to satisfy every requirement or meet every qualification listed. If your skills are transferable and you are in the ballpark experience-wise, we'd love to speak to you