Lead Site Reliability Engineer

DraftKings Inc.

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About The Position

At DraftKings, AI is becoming an integral part of both our present and future, powering how work gets done today, guiding smarter decisions, and sparking bold ideas. It’s transforming how we enhance customer experiences, streamline operations, and unlock new possibilities. Our teams are energized by innovation and readily embrace emerging technology. We’re not waiting for the future to arrive. We’re shaping it, one bold step at a time. To those who see AI as a driver of progress, come build the future together. The Crown Is Yours As a Lead Site Reliability Engineer, you will drive key initiatives to enhance the reliability, scalability, and efficiency of our infrastructure. You'll collaborate across teams to architect infrastructure automation while mentoring other Engineers to foster a culture of continuous learning and innovation. In this role, you will shape deployment strategies, performance tuning, and monitoring frameworks to support our rapid growth.

Requirements

• At least 6 years of experience managing distributed cloud environments (GCP, AWS, vSphere, Nutanix) and platform automation at scale.
• Deep expertise in container orchestration (Kubernetes) and container runtimes (Docker, containers), with the ability to design, scale, and troubleshoot complex workloads.
• Expert-level understanding of networking and web concepts, with the ability to debug issues down to the packet level.
• Strong experience developing software for automation and infrastructure tooling (Go, Python).
• Strong understanding of Linux-based operating systems, including performance tuning, bootloaders, storage, partitioning, kernel debugging, and low-level system optimizations.
• Experience with Infrastructure as Code (IaC) and configuration management tools (Terraform, Ansible, Chef, etc.), ensuring scalable and repeatable infrastructure provisioning.
• Understanding of applications written in various programming languages (C#/.NET, Java, Elixir, Ruby, etc).

Nice To Haves

• Experience in AWS Greengrass IoT management and A/B booting.

Responsibilities

• Lead SRE initiatives across multiple projects and products, collaborating with cross-functional teams to shape platform and infrastructure engineering efforts across the organization.
• Drive technical excellence by mentoring and guiding engineers, fostering a culture of continuous learning and innovation.
• Architect and automate self-healing, fault-tolerant infrastructure with declarative configurations, GitOps, and event-driven automation for scalable deployments across public clouds and on-premise.
• Design, develop, and maintain software-driven infrastructure automation to build internal tools and eliminate repetitive operational tasks.
• Own and drive decisions on product deployment, performance tuning, monitoring, and alerting to ensure high availability and system efficiency in production.
• Define key metrics and SLAs around new web services being created to support our rapid traffic growth.
• Design and implement monitoring and alerting strategies to enforce application SLAs.

What This Job Offers

• Job Type: Full-time
• Career Level: Mid Level
• Education Level: No Education Listed