Senior Data Engineer, Platform

DraftKings Inc. • Boston, MA

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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 Senior Data Engineer, Platform you will be a key contributor to a data team centered around the mission of providing a best-in-class experience for our products and customers. In this role, you'll be leveraging your technical expertise in all aspects of "Infrastructure as Code" (IaC) with a focus on building ingestion frameworks that support real time and batch pipelines into our lakehouse with high availability. You will be working across teams, informing business decisions, helping to expand our platform, and define standards and best practices for platform use.

Requirements

• A proven track record of working in AWS, Terraform, Python, Kubernetes, and database replication tools/services (e.g., AWS DMS).
• Familiarity with Snowflake Snowpipes, Secure Data Sharing, and dynamic data masking.
• The ability to leverage new technologies to test, build, and optimize data pipelines, transformations, architectures, and data sets.
• Excellent communication skills and interpersonal skills to effectively communicate and collaborate with both business and technical teams.

Nice To Haves

• Strong experience with SQL and knowledge in a variety of data engines (for example, SQL Server, MySQL, Amazon Aurora, Redshift) is a big plus.
• Experience with real time or micro batch ingestion technologies (Kafka, Kinesis, Pub/Sub, or Dataflow) and data logging/monitoring tools (e.g., Datadog) is preferred.

Responsibilities

• Demonstrate leadership and ownership of the platform to deliver services for projects and users.
• Demonstrate expertise on platform and ingestion patterns that accommodate a variety of business and technical use cases
• Leverage your strong communication skills to keep users informed and provide excellent quality of service.
• Automate and manage ingestion pipeline provisioning, including connector setup, schema handling, metadata registration, and infrastructure components
• Configure and manage monitoring/alerting around replication latency, performance (cluster & query), and Airflow.
• Coordinate and collaborate with dependent infrastructure and AWS services to implement Snowflake integration with services, such as S3, IAM, SSO, etc.
• Provide technical expertise, troubleshooting, and support for change management, governance compliance, internal audits, and remediations.

What This Job Offers

• Job Type: Full-time
• Career Level: Mid Level
• Education Level: No Education Listed
• Number of Employees: 5,001-10,000 employees