DraftKings

DraftKings

Senior Data Engineer

Remote - Canada · Senior

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PythonSQLNoSQLMongoDBDynamoDBSnowflakeDatabricksAWSCloud PlatformsTerraformDevOpsKafkaData EngineeringCommunicationCollaborationMentoring

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About the role

  • It's transforming how we enhance customer experiences, streamline operations, and unlock new possibilities.
  • Our teams are energized by innovation and readily embrace emerging technology.
  • We're not waiting for the future to arrive.

Responsibilities

  • Build scalable, high-performance data infrastructure that transforms raw and historical data into trusted, actionable insights.
  • Design, develop, and maintain real-time and batch data pipelines using technologies such as Kafka, Databricks, and Snowflake.
  • Develop reliable data solutions that power business-critical reporting, analytics, and platform insights.
  • Build AI-powered data experiences that enable teammates to explore and analyze data using natural language, extending beyond text-to-SQL to support intelligent, autonomous workflows.
  • Design and optimize modern data models, including Star Schema and Data Vault methodologies, while championing data quality, governance, and observability.
  • Drive best practices for data engineering, streaming, transformation, and platform performance while mentoring teammates and contributing to the continued growth of the Data Engineering Team.
  • Collaborate in an agile environment, delivering scalable solutions that support evolving business and platform needs.

Nice to have

  • At least 3 years of experience designing, building, and maintaining scalable data platforms and distributed data systems.
  • Strong proficiency in Python and SQL, with hands-on experience building real-time data streaming solutions.
  • Experience working with Snowflake, Databricks, Kafka, and modern cloud-based data platforms.
  • Experience with cloud infrastructure, preferably Amazon Web Services (AWS), and familiarity with infrastructure and DevOps tools such as Terraform, PagerDuty, and Datadog.
  • Deep understanding of data warehousing, data lakes, ETL frameworks, and modern data modeling techniques, including Star Schema and Data Vault.
  • Experience working with NoSQL databases such as MongoDB or DynamoDB
  • familiarity with Sigma or similar business intelligence tools is a plus.
  • Strong communication and collaboration skills, with the ability to thrive in a fast-paced, cross-functional environment while mentoring and supporting other engineers.

Benefits

  • A Bachelor's Degree in Computer Science or a related field, or an equivalent combination of education, training, and professional experience.

Company info

  • At DraftKings, AI is becoming an integral part of both our present and future, powering how work gets done today, guiding smarter decisions, and sparking bold ideas.

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