DraftKings

Senior Site Reliability Engineer

DraftKings$128K — $160K *
US-AnywhereRemote in United States
Technical Services
Less than 5 years of experience
Job Overview by Ladders

Qualifications

  • Bachelor's degree in Computer Science or relevant experience.
  • 4+ years managing distributed cloud and on-premise environments at scale, primarily with AWS.
  • Deep expertise in container orchestration with Kubernetes.
  • Strong software development experience for automation, particularly in Go and Python.
  • Knowledge of networking and Linux-based systems, with experience in container runtimes and troubleshooting.
  • Experience with Infrastructure as Code and configuration management tools.

Responsibilities

  • Drive stability and scalability across global compute platforms.
  • Operate and evolve the GitOps delivery model using Rancher Fleet and Flux.
  • Build self-healing, fault-tolerant infrastructure to reduce operational toil.
  • Own cluster autoscaling and capacity strategy, leveraging various tools.
  • Define SLOs and reliability metrics with performance monitoring via Datadog.
  • Support team growth through knowledge sharing and collaboration.

Benefits

  • Opportunity for equity participation in a publicly traded company.
  • Guidance through the gaming license acquisition process if required.
Full Job Description
The Crown Is Yours

As a Senior Site Reliability Engineer, you'll build and scale the critical infrastructure behind every product. In this role, you'll take on complex challenges across global data centers, multiple cloud platforms, and on-premise systems-designing automation-first solutions that elevate performance and eliminate operational friction. You'll be trusted to drive stability at scale, influence architectural decisions, and build tools that empower our teams to move fast and deliver reliably. This is where your impact won't just be felt, it'll be foundational.

What You'll Do
  • Drive stability and scalability across our global compute platform spanning numerous data centers, multiple public clouds, and on-premise environments, serving as the foundation for every product.
  • Operate and evolve our GitOps delivery model, using Rancher Fleet and Flux with Helm to deploy core cluster services and application workloads declaratively and repeatably.
  • Build self-healing, fault-tolerant infrastructure and internal tooling that eliminates repetitive operational work and reduces toil for both platform and application teams.
  • Own cluster autoscaling and capacity strategy, including Karpenter, HPA and KEDA, and predictive scaling driven by event and calendar data.
  • Define SLOs and reliability metrics for platform components, using Datadog and our logging pipeline to surface cluster and workload health.
  • Support technical growth by sharing knowledge, participating in design discussions, and contributing to a collaborative team culture, including on-call rotation.


What You'll Bring
  • Bachelor's degree in Computer Science or relevant education, experience, and training.
  • At least 4 years managing distributed cloud and on-premise environments at scale, with strong hands-on AWS experience. Exposure to GCP, vSphere, or Nutanix is a plus.
  • Deep expertise in container orchestration with Kubernetes, including the ability to design, scale, and troubleshoot complex workloads.
  • Strong experience developing software for automation and infrastructure tooling such as Go and Python.
  • Working knowledge of networking and Linux-based systems, including container runtimes such as Docker and containerd, packet-level debugging, and kernel troubleshooting.
  • Experience with Infrastructure as Code (IaC) and configuration management tools to ensure scalable and repeatable infrastructure provisioning.


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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 128,000.00 USD - 160,000.00 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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