Director of Resilience Engineering

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November 27

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DraftKings Inc.

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Gaming • Sports • B2C

DraftKings Inc. is a global company known for providing innovative products and experiences primarily in the sports betting and fantasy sports sectors. The company boasts a strong presence across multiple countries, aiming to deliver exceptional customer moments and overcoming challenges through teamwork and persistence. At DraftKings, innovation in engineering, analytics, and product development is key, with a focus on creating unforgettable customer experiences in sportsbook and casino operations. The company emphasizes a dynamic work culture, inclusion, equity, and global collaboration within its diverse teams.

1001 - 5000 employees

Founded 2012

🎮 Gaming

⚽ Sports

👥 B2C

📋 Description

• Build and lead a new Resilience Engineering team that blends performance, chaos, and reliability practices under one mission. • Define and execute a resilience strategy focused on systemic risk reduction and continuous performance improvement. • Develop and evangelize standards, tooling, and playbooks that enable engineering teams to design and operate resilient services. • Partner with Infrastructure, SRE, and Domain teams to identify high-blast-radius risks and remediate systemic weaknesses. • Integrate resilience testing into the SDLC, making fault injection and performance validation part of CI/CD. • Launch and operate a centralized Reliability Lab to support safe chaos experimentation and performance benchmarking. • Drive adoption of resilience principles through training, enablement, and measurable outcomes. • Communicate technical strategy and results to senior leadership, connecting engineering impact to customer experience and business value.

🎯 Requirements

• Bachelor's degree in Computer Science or any suitable combination of education, experience, and training. • At least 6 years of experience in a large-scale, growth-oriented environment, with a track record of building and leading high-performing teams. • Experience in software, platform, or reliability engineering, with at least 4 years in technical leadership. • Deep expertise in performance optimization, distributed systems scalability, and production reliability. • Familiarity with chaos engineering tools such as Gremlin and Chaos Mesh, along with observability stacks. • Strong understanding of cloud-native architecture and large-scale operations. • Demonstrated ability to define and track reliability KPIs like MTTR, availability, and performance headroom. • Ability to influence across functions and communicate effectively with senior technical and business stakeholders. • Experience building enablement platforms or resilience frameworks in regulated or high-availability industries such as fintech, SaaS, or gaming is a plus. • Background in observability, distributed tracing, or performance analytics is a plus.

🏖️ Benefits

• bonus • equity