Staff Infrastructure Engineer – Kubernetes & Service Mesh

About the role

FanDuel is hiring a Staff Infrastructure Engineer in Atlanta to own the design, operation and maturity of its Kubernetes platforms and service mesh ecosystem. The company runs 100+ Kubernetes clusters on AWS Cloud and Outposts, with Kong Mesh at the core of service-to-service communication. The role works directly with the Infrastructure Engineering Director to set standards, mentor engineers, lead incident response and build automation.

Key responsibilities

• Design and operate the Kubernetes platform across EKS clusters, setting standards for configuration, isolation, resource management and cost optimization, and building runbooks and automation.
• Mature the Kong Mesh ecosystem into a production-grade platform with patterns for security, traffic management and observability.
• Define service-to-service communication patterns, including zero-trust networking, certificate lifecycle, mTLS policies and debugging.
• Build infrastructure-as-code, automation and tooling that reduce toil.
• Set SLOs, monitor reliability and define quality standards for the infrastructure platform.
• Lead incident response and root cause analysis for Kubernetes and mesh issues.
• Mentor engineers on Kubernetes internals, mesh design and distributed systems thinking.
• Evaluate infrastructure tools and work with platform and product teams on their needs and the roadmap.

Required profile

• 7+ years in platform infrastructure, SRE, cloud infrastructure or related work, having built and operated large systems.
• Deep hands-on Kubernetes experience, including multi-cluster operations, scheduling, networking, security and debugging.
• Experience with modern service mesh platforms (Kong Mesh, Istio, Linkerd or Envoy-based systems) and mTLS, traffic policies and zero-trust networking.
• Understanding of distributed systems and failure modes at scale.
• Defined and tracked SLOs/SLIs for infrastructure services.
• Codes in at least one modern language, builds tools and automates operations, and mentors engineers.

Required skills

• AWS, including VPCs, networking, security and hybrid environments such as Outposts.
• Kubernetes (EKS), Terraform, Helm, Datadog.
• Bonus: production Envoy, AWS Outposts, CNCF Kubernetes certifications (CKA, CKS, CKAD), regulated-industry experience, eBPF tools like Cilium.

What we offer

• Salary range of $159,000 - $208,950 USD depending on experience, location and market.
• Medical, vision and dental insurance, life and disability insurance, 401(k) matching, paid time off and 14 paid holidays.
• Possible short-term or long-term incentives, including bonuses and stock program participation.