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DraftKings Inc.

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1001 - 5000 employees

Founded 2012

🎮 Gaming

⚽ Sports

👥 B2C

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.

📋 Description

• Drive database reliability across PostgreSQL, MySQL, MongoDB, Redis, ScyllaDB, Aerospike, and managed cloud services • Support high availability, replication, partitioning, storage, and connection management • Develop Kubernetes operators, infrastructure as code, GitOps workflows, and production tooling in Go or Python • Automate provisioning, failover, backups, schema migrations, and lifecycle management • Build self-healing, fault-tolerant infrastructure and internal tooling to reduce operational toil • Optimize database performance and cost across cloud and on-premises environments • Support 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 code evaluation

🎯 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 Kubernetes workloads using 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 • Sound engineering judgment to validate AI-generated outputs for reliability and security • 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 required • Remote work option within the US