DraftKings

DraftKings

Senior Site Reliability Engineer

Boston, MA · Senior · Full-time

Sponsorship not specifiedDetected 9 days ago
GoAWSGCPCloud PlatformsDockerKubernetesHelmLinuxDatadogSite Reliability Engineering

About the role

  • It's transforming how we enhance customer experiences, streamline operations, and unlock new possibilities.
  • We're not waiting for the future to arrive.

Responsibilities

  • Drive stability and scalability across our global compute platform spanning numerous data centers, multiple public clouds, and on-premise environments, serving as the foundation for every product.
  • Build self-healing, fault-tolerant infrastructure and internal tooling that eliminates repetitive operational work and reduces toil for both platform and application teams.
  • Own cluster autoscaling and capacity strategy, including Karpenter, HPA and KEDA, and predictive scaling driven by event and calendar data.
  • Support technical growth by sharing knowledge, participating in design discussions, and contributing to a collaborative team culture, including on-call rotation.
  • Deep expertise in container orchestration with Kubernetes, including the ability to design, scale, and troubleshoot complex workloads.
  • Strong experience developing software for automation and infrastructure tooling such as Go and Python.

Requirements

  • Experience with Infrastructure as Code (IaC) and configuration management tools to ensure scalable and repeatable infrastructure provisioning.
  • As a regulated gaming company, you may be required to obtain a gaming license issued by the appropriate state agency as a condition of employment.

Nice to have

  • At least 4 years managing distributed cloud and on-premise environments at scale, with strong hands-on AWS experience.
  • Exposure to GCP, vSphere, or Nutanix is a plus.

Skills

  • Our teams are energized by innovation and readily embrace emerging technology.
  • The Crown Is Yours
  • This is where your impact won't just be felt, it'll be foundational.

Compensation

  • The US base salary range for this full-time position is 128,000.00 USD - 160,000.00 USD, plus bonus, equity, and benefits as applicable.
  • Your recruiter can share more about the specific pay range and how that was determined during the hiring process.

Benefits

  • The US base salary range for this full-time position is 128,000.00 USD - 160,000.00 USD, plus bonus, equity, and benefits as applicable.
  • Define SLOs and reliability metrics for platform components, using Datadog and our logging pipeline to surface cluster and workload health.
  • Bachelor's degree in Computer Science or relevant education, experience, and training.
  • Within the range, individual pay is determined by work location and additional factors, including job-related skills, experience, and relevant education or training.

This listing is sourced directly from DraftKings's careers page and normalized into a canonical job model.