DraftKings Inc.
DraftKings Inc.
1,001 – 5,000 Employees
GamblingSports
DraftKings Inc. is a digital sports entertainment and gaming company operating products across sports betting, daily fantasy sports, and iGaming. Its web and mobile experiences include live wagering, fantasy contests, casino games, and sports-related content for users in multiple countries. The company supports these platforms through teams in engineering, product, marketing, and compliance, with a focus on responsible gaming and meeting regulatory requirements.

Database Reliability Engineer (Remote - Massachusetts)

Build automated, self-healing database infrastructure for DraftKings’ real-time sports betting and gaming platform. Improve reliability, scalability, performance, and cloud operations across large-scale systems.

Description

  • Own reliability engineering for PostgreSQL, MySQL, MongoDB, Redis, ScyllaDB, Aerospike, and managed cloud database services
  • Maintain high availability, replication, partitioning, storage, and database connection management
  • Create and advance automation-first database platforms
  • Develop Kubernetes operators, infrastructure-as-code solutions, GitOps workflows, and production-grade Go or Python tooling
  • Automate provisioning, failover, backups, schema migrations, and database lifecycle operations
  • Design self-healing, fault-tolerant infrastructure and internal engineering tools
  • Reduce operational effort and streamline routine database administration
  • Improve database performance and costs across cloud and on-premises environments
  • Contribute to capacity planning, resource efficiency, storage optimization, workload consolidation, and performance tuning for large-scale systems
  • Collaborate with application engineers on schema reviews, migration plans, query optimization, connection management, and zero-downtime releases
  • Apply AI to observability, anomaly detection, root-cause analysis, documentation, predictive analysis, and assessment of AI-generated code

Requirements

  • At least two 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 workloads on Kubernetes
  • Experience with StatefulSets, Persistent Volumes, database operators, Terraform, Pulumi, FluxCD, ArgoCD, GKE, or EKS
  • Hands-on software development experience in Go or Python
  • Experience creating automation, platform tooling, Kubernetes controllers, APIs, and infrastructure
  • Experience improving reliability through observability, monitoring, service-level objectives, capacity planning, performance optimization, and self-service engineering
  • Practical experience with AI tools such as Claude, GitHub Copilot, Cursor, MCP, or similar technologies
  • Sound engineering judgment for validating AI-generated outputs
  • May need to obtain a gaming license from the appropriate state agency as a condition of employment

Benefits

  • Bonus
  • Equity
  • Benefits as applicable
  • Guidance through the gaming license process when relevant to the role

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