Site Reliability Engineer

About Us

At FDJ UNITED, we don't just follow the game, we reinvent it.

FDJ UNITED is one of Europe's leading betting and gaming operators, with a vast portfolio of iconic brands and a reputation for technological excellence. With more than 5,000 employees and a presence in around fifteen regulated markets, the Group offers a diversified, responsible range of games, both under exclusive rights and open to competition. We set new standards, proving that entertainment and safety can go hand in hand. Here, you'll work alongside a team of passionate individuals dedicated to delivering the best and safest entertaining experiences for our customers every day.

We're looking for bold people who are eager to succeed and ready to level-up the game. If you thrive on innovation, embrace challenges, and want to make a real impact at all levels, FDJ UNITED is your playing field.

Join us in shaping the future of gaming. Are you ready to LEVEL-UP THE GAME?

Job Description:

As a Site Reliability Engineer, you'll be at the heart of ensuring the resilience and observability of the Kindred Sportsbook Platform. This isn't just about keeping the lights on; it's about building systems and solutions that thrive under extreme pressure. You'll collaborate with feature teams to extract rich telemetry and structured event data from their code, architect and build highly distributed observability solutions to handle massive data ingestion and develop tools that turn complex signals into actionable insights for technical and business stakeholders alike.

Your mission: to ensure our systems stay fast, scalable, and reliable—even when millions of bets are placed simultaneously during major international sporting events. Whether it's a local derby in Europe, a championship game in North America, or a global tournament, your work will be critical to delivering seamless betting experiences across continents. If you love solving complex and novel problems, architecting scalable and distributed systems, and being a key player in a high-stakes environment, we'd love to hear from you.

Responsibilities:

• Architect, build, and maintain large-scale, distributed telemetry pipelines and observability platforms that provide real-time insight into system performance and reliability.
• Design innovative solutions for telemetry challenges in our uniquely asynchronous and distributed ecosystem, ensuring high visibility across services.
• Act as a subject matter expert, collaborating with development teams to optimise instrumentation, observability tooling, and reliability strategies.
• Drive capacity planning and proactive performance optimisation, always pushing the envelope to anticipate and meet evolving business and customer needs.
• Partner with teams to define and refine four golden signals, service levels, and error budgets, ensuring we measure and improve critical user journeys and business impact.
• Take ownership in high-stakes production incidents, leading deep-dive investigations and implementing long-term solutions to prevent future disruptions.
• Develop, refine, and automate reliability-focused tooling, reducing toil and increasing engineering efficiency across the platform.

Skills and experience:

• Deep expertise in site reliability engineering concepts and practices.
• Advanced knowledge of observability and telemetry data principles, with hands-on experience in designing and implementing solutions at scale.
• Experience with Linux system administration and fundamentals.
• Solid understanding of network fundamentals, with an emphasis on Layer 7 protocols such as HTTP, gRPC, DNS, and TLS.
• Extensive experience with IaaS platforms, both cloud and on-prem.
• Strong experience with containerisation principles, tooling and orchestration.
• Proficiency in one or more of the following: Go, Python, C#, NodeJS or similar programming languages.
• Strong grasp of CI/CD automation and Infrastructure as Code (IaC) principles

Bonus Skills and Experience:

• Experience in fintech style operations.
• Experience working in large scale, low latency asynchronous systems.
• Hands-on experience with the Opentelemetry ecosystem.
• A keen interest in new technologies and industry trends in the SRE and observability space.
• Strong analytical and troubleshooting skills, with a systematic approach to problem-solving.
• Excellent verbal and written communication skills, with the ability to document systems, processes, and troubleshooting steps clearly.

Benefits:

• We are in a fantastic new office near Barangaroo, close to Wynyard station.
• Our office has a sports hub, if you want to challenge a mate to a game of table tennis or darts.
• Fancy a good cup of coffee? We have an in-house barista to get you that perfect cup
• Many social events to take part in (Melbourne Cup is just one of them).
• Great work life balance and flexibility.
• A continued commitment to employee development.
• Life insurance and income protection plans.
• Wellness benefits.

NEXT STEPS:

To apply for this role, you must be in Australia with a valid work visa, permanent residency, or citizenship. This is a permanent full-time role with a hybrid workplace policy that requires two days per week in the office.

Our Way Of Working

Our world is hybrid.

A career is not a sprint. It's a marathon. One of the perks of joining us is that we value you as a person first. Our hybrid world allows you to focus on your goals and responsibilities and lets you self-organise to improve your deliveries and get the work done in your own way.

Application Process

We believe talent knows no boundaries. Our hiring process focuses solely on your skills, experience, and potential to contribute to our team. We welcome applicants from all backgrounds and evaluate each candidate based on merit, regardless of personal characteristics as the age, gender, origin, religion, sexual orientation, neurodiversity or disability.

Details

Hybrid

Sydney, Australia

Full Time Permanent

TEC2584

Location

Sydney, Australia

Level 9, 207 Kent Street, Sydney, New South Wales, Australia, 2000

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Benefits

Well-being allowance

Learning and development opportunities

Inclusion networks

Charity days

Long service awards

Social events and activites

Life assurance and income protection

Employee Assistance Programme

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