Database Reliability Engineer

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🍂 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.

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1001 - 5000 employees

Founded 2012

📣 Marketing

💼 Consulting

📦 Logistics

Marketing • Consulting • Logistics

DraftKings Inc. is a digital sports entertainment company operating a leading online sportsbook, daily fantasy sports, and casino platform that delivers real-money betting and gaming experiences via web and mobile apps. It combines sports data, analytics, and content to engage fans, provides marketing and VIP/loyalty programs, and maintains global teams across engineering, product, compliance, and customer experience while emphasizing responsible gaming.

📋 Description

• Drive database reliability across PostgreSQL, MySQL, MongoDB, Redis, ScyllaDB, Aerospike, and managed cloud services, including high availability, replication, partitioning, storage, and connection management • Develop Kubernetes operators, infrastructure as code, GitOps workflows, and production tooling in Go or Python for provisioning, failover, backups, schema migrations, and lifecycle management • Build self-healing, fault-tolerant infrastructure and internal tooling to reduce operational toil and simplify database operations • Optimize database performance and cost across cloud and on-premises environments through capacity planning, resource efficiency, storage optimization, workload consolidation, and performance tuning • 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 for reliability and security

🎯 Requirements

• At least 2 years of experience in Database Reliability Engineering, Database Platform Engineering, Site Reliability Engineering, or related infrastructure engineering 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 for automation, platform tooling, Kubernetes controllers, APIs, and infrastructure • Experience with 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 • Ability to apply 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