Staff Platform Network Engineer

THE POSITION

As a Staff Platform Network Engineer, you'll design, build, and mature the service connectivity platform that underpins how FanDuel services communicate with each other and the outside world. Your focus will be delivering secure, scalable, and reliable connectivity across our hybrid cloud environment through service mesh, ingress, gateway APIs, TLS, and edge‑routing capabilities that enable teams to move quickly and safely. This role lands at a pivotal moment in our platform evolution. We're rolling out Kong Gateway and Kong Mesh (with Impart) across our EKS estate and evolving toward a standardized, self‑service connectivity platform. You'll help shape the long‑term architecture, operating model, and migration strategy away from legacy ingress patterns, while ensuring the platform remains reliable, secure, and sustainable at scale. This is a hands‑on builder‑operator role. You'll partner closely with engineering and product teams to deliver scalable connectivity capabilities, serve as a subject matter expert in service mesh and traffic management, and help teams adopt reliable patterns for service‑to‑service communication. By connecting platform behavior to real user impact, you'll drive improvements in reliability, performance, security, and operational maturity across the organization. In addition to the specific responsibilities outlined above, employees may be required to perform other duties as assigned by the Company. This ensures operational flexibility and allows the Company to meet evolving business needs.

THE GAME PLAN

Defining and driving the service connectivity strategy and roadmap across multiple teams, aligning with business priorities, regulatory requirements, and engineering goals. Maturing our Kong Gateway and Kong Mesh rollout into a production‑grade platform across our EKS estate, including mTLS enforcement, traffic policy standardization, self‑service onboarding, and migration from legacy ingress patterns. Designing and evolving scalable connectivity capabilities spanning service mesh, ingress, gateways, TLS and certificate automation, DNS, and L7 edge routing across hybrid AWS environments, including AWS Outposts. Establishing best practices for service‑to‑service communication, zero‑trust networking, traffic management, and certificate lifecycle management across the organization. Building infrastructure‑as‑code, tooling, automation, and platform guardrails that improve reliability, reduce operational toil, and enable safe self‑service adoption. Leading cross‑team initiatives to improve connectivity reliability, reduce systemic operational risk, and drive platform‑level resilience improvements. Leveraging automation and AI‑assisted workflows to accelerate root cause analysis and improve operational efficiency at scale. Leading complex production incident response across Kubernetes networking, ingress, DNS, load balancing, service mesh, and cloud edge infrastructure. Stewarding connectivity platforms operating under strict regulatory and compliance requirements, ensuring secure operation, auditability, and disciplined change management. Partnering with engineering and product leadership to influence platform direction, roadmap priorities, and long‑term connectivity strategy. Evaluating build‑versus‑buy decisions and vendor capabilities against platform requirements and operational sustainability goals. Mentoring engineers and raising the connectivity and platform networking maturity across the organization. A Sneak Peek Into Our Tech Stack AWS (VPC, Transit Gateway, Cloud WAN, ALB/NLB, Route53, CloudFront, Outposts), Kubernetes (EKS, 100+ clusters), Kong Gateway & Kong Mesh (with Impart), Terraform, Helm and Datadog

THE STATS

Significant hands‑on experience in platform engineering, SRE, cloud infrastructure, or related fields, with a track record of driving impact across multiple teams or domains. Strong expertise in modern service mesh technologies (e.g. Istio, Kong Mesh, Linkerd, or Envoy‑based platforms), including mTLS enforcement, traffic policy design, and service‑to‑service security patterns. Deep expertise in Kubernetes networking and service connectivity, including CNIs, ingress controllers, gateway APIs, and operating distributed systems at scale across hybrid AWS environments. Working knowledge of AWS networking primitives such as VPCs, Route53, PrivateLink, ALB/NLB, and CloudFront, with the ability to reason end‑to‑end across L3 through L7 networking layers. Experience defining and driving platform, reliability, or connectivity strategy across teams, with the ability to influence technical direction and engineering standards. Strong understanding of distributed systems principles and the real‑world trade‑offs involved in highly available service‑to‑service communication. Experience defining and implementing SLOs, SLIs, and alerting strategies for connectivity infrastructure using user‑centric and business‑aligned metrics. Strong software engineering fundamentals, including proficiency in at least one modern programming language (e.g. Go, Java, Python, or TypeScript), and experience building scalable tooling, automation, and platform capabilities. Experience implementing zero‑trust networking principles, including workload identity and mutual TLS at scale. Experience driving large‑scale operational improvements through automation, reducing organizational toil, and eliminating recurring classes of issues. Strong analytical and communication skills, with the ability to influence technical and non‑technical stakeholders and translate technical constraints into business and customer impact. A mindset of ownership, continuous improvement, and long‑term platform sustainability. Bonus Hands‑on experience with Kong Gateway and/or Kong Mesh. Familiarity with eBPF‑based networking technologies such as Cilium and their implications for performance and observability at scale. CNCF Kubernetes certifications (CKA, CKS, or CKAD). Experience operating in regulated industries where network segmentation, auditability, and security controls are critical.

ABOUT FANDUEL

FanDuel Group is the premier mobile gaming company in the United States and Canada, operating leading brands across mobile wagering and gaming platforms.

PLAYER BENEFITS

We offer a comprehensive benefits package, including health plans, mental health support, fitness benefits, generous paid time off, annual bonus, long‑term incentives, 401(k) matching, commuter benefits, pet insurance, and more. Benefits may vary by location and level.

EEO STATEMENT

FanDuel is an equal opportunities employer and is committed to equal employment opportunity regardless of race, color, ethnicity, ancestry, religion, creed, sex, national origin, sexual orientation, age, citizenship status, marital status, disability, gender identity, gender expression, veteran status, or any other characteristic protected by state, local or federal law. FanDuel is committed to providing reasonable accommodations for qualified individuals with disabilities. If you have a disability and need a workplace accommodation or adjustment during the application or hiring process, please email View email address on click.appcast.io.

COMPENSATION & BENEFIT INFORMATION

The applicable salary range for this position is $159,000 – $208,950 USD, which is dependent on a variety of factors including relevant experience, location, business needs and market demand. The role may offer medical, vision, dental, life, disability insurance, a 401(k) matching program, short‑term or long‑term incentive compensation, paid personal time off, 14 paid company holidays, and paid sick time in accordance with all applicable state and federal laws.

LEGAL STATEMENT

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