Staff Data Engineer — Platform & Data Infrastructure Lead

FanDuel; Jersey City (NJ); On-site; USD 159,000 - 209,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Health insurance

401k matching

Stock program

Paid time off

Job summary

FanDuel Group is seeking a Staff Data Engineer to lead the design and implementation of our critical data infrastructure and products. This senior IC role focuses on scalable systems, data architecture standards, and solving complex challenges powering analytics, data science, and business use cases across FanDuel.

You will partner with engineers, product managers, and stakeholders to design performant, reliable data solutions with a long-term, customer-centric mindset.

Qualifications

• 8+ years in data engineering building scalable data systems.
• Expertise Spark, Airflow, Kafka, Databricks, and cloud services.
• Strong SQL and one language (Python/Scala/Java).
• Proven experience owning complex systems end-to-end.
• Excellent communication across technical and non-technical audiences.

Responsibilities

• Design and implement scalable data pipelines and architectures.
• Define data modeling standards and pipeline orchestration.
• Collaborate with cross-functional teams to translate requirements.
• Lead code reviews and mentor peers.
• Improve data quality, lineage, observability, and reliability.

Skills

Data modeling

Distributed systems

ETL/ELT

SQL

Python/Scala/Java

Spark

Airflow

Kafka

Databricks

Cloud-native services

Tools

Spark

Airflow

Kafka

Databricks

AWS

GCP

Azure

Job description

FanDuel Group is seeking a Staff Data Engineer to lead the design and implementation of our critical data infrastructure and products. This senior IC role focuses on scalable systems, data architecture standards, and solving complex challenges powering analytics, data science, and business use cases across FanDuel.

You will partner with engineers, product managers, and stakeholders to design performant, reliable data solutions with a long-term, customer-centric mindset.