Data Engineer
FanDuel is the premier mobile gaming company in the United States and Canada, seeking a Data Engineer to join their growing data platform team. The role involves designing and maintaining data infrastructure that supports analytics, machine learning, and business decision-making, while collaborating with various teams to improve platform reliability and performance.
Responsibilities
- Contribute to design and code reviews, learning and applying platform and development best practices to build high-quality, maintainable data pipelines
- Monitor Databricks and Airflow jobs and queries, helping identify performance issues and working with senior engineers to implement improvements
- Assist in the design and evolution of data platform components built on Databricks and Airflow, with an emphasis on reliability, scalability, and cost awareness
- Author and maintain clear documentation for pipelines, workflows, data models, and platform usage to support operational excellence and onboarding
- Partner with platform, analytics, and engineering teams to support adoption of modern platform features and data governance standards
- Build and operate production-grade batch and near–real-time data pipelines, including basic monitoring, alerting, and operational runbooks
- Learn and apply platform best practices by collaborating closely with senior engineers and participating in incident response and postmortems
- Communicate findings, improvements, and operational insights through dashboards, queries, or short written updates to help teams make informed decisions
Skills
- 1–4 years of experience working with Apache Airflow or similar orchestration tools, including: Building and maintaining DAGs for production workloads. Understanding retries, scheduling, dependencies, and basic sensor usage
- 1–4 years of experience developing in Python, with familiarity in writing readable, testable, and maintainable code
- 1–4 years of experience working with Databricks or a comparable data platform, including: Building ETL/ELT pipelines using Delta Lake or similar technologies. Basic familiarity with SQL Warehouses, job compute, and performance concepts
- Experience working in a cloud environment (AWS, Azure, or GCP), with exposure to: Cloud storage (e.g., S3), IAM concepts, and managed services. Secure access patterns and data handling best practices
- Some experience or exposure to infrastructure as code (Terraform preferred), with interest in learning how platform infrastructure is deployed and managed
- Familiarity with Git-based workflows and CI/CD concepts, especially as they relate to data or platform engineering
- Exposure to data quality, observability, or lineage tools (e.g., Monte Carlo, Datafold) is a plus
- Familiarity with dbt or an understanding of how it fits into a modern data stack is a plus
- Experience supporting BI, analytics, or data science teams
- Familiarity with version control, CI/CD, and collaborative development workflows
- Exposure to data governance, privacy, or compliance practices
- Eagerness to learn new technologies and contribute to the growth of the team
Benefits
- We offer amazing benefits above and beyond the basics.
- We have an array of health plans to choose from (some as low as $0 per paycheck) that include programs for fertility and family planning, mental health support, and fitness benefits.
- We offer 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, and more - check out all our benefits here: FanDuel Total Rewards.
- This role may offer the following benefits: medical, vision, and dental insurance; life insurance; disability insurance; a 401(k) matching program; among other employee benefits.
- This role may also be eligible for short-term or long-term incentive compensation, including, but not limited to, cash bonuses and stock program participation.
- This role includes paid personal time off and 14 paid company holidays.
- FanDuel offers paid sick time in accordance with all applicable state and federal laws.
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