DraftKings

Data Engineering Manager, Customer

DraftKings$153K — $191K *
US-Anywhere
+ 2 other locationsRemote
Information Technology
Less than 5 years of experience
Job Overview by Ladders

Qualifications

  • Minimum of 2 years in technical management with a focus on mentorship and team leadership.
  • Strong background in Data Engineering with hands-on SQL experience.
  • Experience with cloud data platforms like Snowflake, Databricks, or BigQuery.
  • Familiarity with technologies such as Kafka, Airflow, Terraform, Python, and Datadog.
  • Expertise in agentic coding workflows, particularly in AI development loops.
  • Excellent communication skills, both technical and non-technical, with a strong emphasis on mentorship.
  • Experience with Customer 360 or Customer Data Platforms is advantageous.

Responsibilities

  • Lead and mentor a team of Data Engineers, fostering career development and collaboration.
  • Guide the team in delivering scalable data solutions that align with customer needs and business priorities.
  • Enhance AI-enabled software development practices to improve delivery efficiency.
  • Stay engaged with the codebase, offering architectural guidance to tackle technical challenges.
  • Establish technical standards for scalable, reliable data solutions that perform well.
  • Facilitate technical design discussions, ensuring clear communication of decisions and recommendations.
  • Cultivate a culture of accountability, open communication, and continuous improvement within the engineering team.

Benefits

  • Guidance through gaming license acquisition as needed for the role.
  • Dynamic work environment at a publicly traded technology company.
  • Opportunities for bonuses and equity offerings.
  • Robust support for career development and continuous improvement initiatives.
Full Job Description
The Crown Is Yours

As a Data Engineering Manager, Customer, you’ll lead a team building scalable data solutions that power critical capabilities across our customer-focused organization. You’ll combine people leadership with hands-on technical ownership, developing talented Data Engineers while staying close to the code and shaping technical direction. Working alongside Technical Product Managers, Software Engineers, and Delivery Managers, you’ll strengthen the data foundations, reporting capabilities, and AI-enabled development practices that help teams move faster and make informed decisions. You’ll set a high bar for accountability, engineering excellence, and consistent delivery across the team.

What you’ll do as a Data Engineering Manager, Customer
  • Lead, mentor, and develop a team of Data Engineers, supporting career growth, performance, and a collaborative team culture.

  • Guide your team in delivering high-quality, scalable data solutions across the customer domain while balancing speed, quality, and evolving business priorities.

  • Advance AI-enabled software development lifecycle practices already embedded in the team’s workflow, using them to improve engineering efficiency and accelerate delivery.

  • Stay hands-on with the codebase, provide architectural guidance, and help your team navigate complex technical challenges.

  • Set technical standards that make data solutions scalable, testable, reliable, and high-performing.

  • Lead technical design discussions and clearly communicate decisions, tradeoffs, and recommendations through written and verbal communication.

  • Build a healthy, accountable engineering culture grounded in open communication, collaboration, ownership, and continuous improvement.

What you’ll bring
  • At least 2 years of technical management experience, including direct people leadership, career development, coaching, and performance management.

  • A strong Data Engineering background with hands-on SQL experience across data ingestion, transformation, and delivery.

  • Experience working with cloud data platforms such as Snowflake, Databricks, or BigQuery.

  • Familiarity with technologies such as Kafka, Airflow, Terraform, Python, and Datadog.

  • Hands-on experience with agentic coding workflows, including using multi-step AI development loops to build, test, and ship code beyond AI-assisted autocomplete.

  • Technical depth paired with strong mentorship, team-building, and communication skills, with the ability to engage technical and non-technical audiences.

  • Experience building or implementing a Customer 360 or Customer Data Platform is a plus.

  • A strong sense of ownership and accountability, with the ability to adapt to changing priorities, take action, and continuously improve how your team delivers.

Join Our Team

We’re a publicly traded (NASDAQ: DKNG) technology company headquartered in Boston. As a regulated gaming company, you may be required to obtain a gaming license issued by the appropriate state agency as a condition of employment. Don’t worry, we’ll guide you through the process if this is relevant to your role.

The US base salary range for this full-time position is 153,400.00 USD - 191,800.00 USD, plus bonus, equity, and benefits as applicable. Our ranges are determined by role, level, and location. The compensation information displayed on each job posting reflects the range for new hire pay rates for the position across all US locations. Within the range, individual pay is determined by work location and additional factors, including job-related skills, experience, and relevant education or training. Your recruiter can share more about the specific pay range and how that was determined during the hiring process.

About DraftKings

DraftKings is an American daily fantasy sports contest and sports betting operator. The company allows users to enter daily and weekly fantasy sports–related contests and win money based on individual player performances in five major American sports, Premier League and UEFA Champions League soccer, NASCAR auto racing, Canadian Football League, the XFL, mixed martial arts and Tennis. In August 2018, DraftKings launched DraftKings Sportsbook in New Jersey becoming the first legal mobile sports betting operator in the state. Since launching in New Jersey, DraftKings has opened mobile sports betting operations in Indiana, Pennsylvania, West Virginia and opened in New Hampshire December 30, 2019 after reaching contract with the New Hampshire Lottery. Retail sports betting is available in Iowa, Mississippi and New York. DraftKings Sportsbook mobile and retail sports betting products allow bettors in each state engage in betting for most major U.S. and international sports. As of April 2016, the majority of U.S. states consider fantasy sports a game of skill and not gambling. In November 2016, FanDuel and DraftKings, the two largest companies in the daily fantasy sports industry, reached an agreement to merge. However the merger was terminated in July 2017 due to it being blocked by the Federal Trade Commission as the combined company would have controlled a 90 percent of the market for daily fantasy sports. As of July 2017, DraftKings had eight million users.
Learn more about DraftKings
Size
3,400 employees
Market Cap
$4.9 billion
Industry
Net Income
-$577.9 million
Revenue
$292.3 million
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