Database Reliability Engineer

🕒 September 25

🍂 Massachusetts – Remote

🍂 Massachusetts – Remote

💵 $112k - $140k / year

⏰ Full Time

🟢 Junior

🟡 Mid-level

⛑ DevOps & Site Reliability Engineer (SRE)

🚫👨‍🎓 No degree required

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DraftKings Inc.

WebsiteLinkedInAll Job Openings

1001 - 5000 employees

Founded 2012

🎲 Gambling

⚽ Sports

Gambling • Sports

DraftKings Inc. is a digital sports entertainment and gaming company that operates a leading sports betting, daily fantasy sports, and iGaming platform. The company offers consumer-facing wagering products, fantasy contests, and sports-related content across web and mobile, serving users in multiple countries and supporting operations with teams in engineering, product, marketing, and compliance. DraftKings focuses on delivering live betting, casino games, and related experiences while emphasizing responsible gaming and regulatory compliance.

📋 Description

• Drive database reliability across PostgreSQL, MySQL, MongoDB, Redis, ScyllaDB, Aerospike, and managed cloud services • Support high availability, replication, partitioning, storage, and connection management • Build and enhance automation-first database platforms • Develop Kubernetes operators, infrastructure as code, GitOps workflows, and production-quality tooling in Go or Python • Automate provisioning, failover, backups, schema migrations, and lifecycle management • Build self-healing, fault-tolerant infrastructure and internal tooling • Reduce operational toil and simplify day-to-day database operations • Optimize database performance and cost across cloud and on-premises environments • Support capacity planning, resource efficiency, storage optimization, workload consolidation, and performance tuning for large-scale systems • Partner with application engineering teams on schema reviews, migration strategies, query optimization, connection management, and zero-downtime deployments • Leverage AI for observability, anomaly detection, root cause analysis, documentation, predictive insights, and evaluation of AI-generated code

🎯 Requirements

• At least 2 years of experience in Database Reliability Engineering, Database Platform Engineering, Site Reliability Engineering, or a related infrastructure engineering role with a strong database focus • Experience supporting at least one major relational database, preferably Aurora MySQL • Operational experience with PostgreSQL, MongoDB, ScyllaDB, Aurora, or other managed cloud database services • Experience building and operating stateful workloads on Kubernetes • Experience with StatefulSets, Persistent Volumes, database operators, Terraform, Pulumi, FluxCD, ArgoCD, GKE, or EKS • Hands-on software development experience using Go or Python • Experience building automation, platform tooling, Kubernetes controllers, APIs, and infrastructure • Experience improving reliability through observability, monitoring, service-level objectives, capacity planning, performance optimization, and self-service engineering solutions • Practical experience using AI tools such as Claude, GitHub Copilot, Cursor, MCP, or similar technologies • Sound engineering judgment to validate AI-generated outputs • May be required to obtain a gaming license issued by the appropriate state agency as a condition of employment

🏖️ Benefits

• Bonus • Equity • Benefits as applicable • Guidance through the gaming license process if relevant to the role