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DraftKings Inc. · 19 hours ago

Senior Data Engineer, Platform

DraftKings Inc. is a publicly traded technology company headquartered in Boston, focused on leveraging AI to enhance customer experiences and innovate operations. As a Senior Data Engineer, Platform, you will contribute to building ingestion frameworks and managing data pipelines, collaborating across teams to improve platform standards and user experience.

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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

Qualification

AWSTerraformPythonKubernetesSQLSnowflakeKafkaCommunicationInterpersonal skills

Required

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
Strong experience with SQL and knowledge in a variety of data engines (for example, SQL Server, MySQL, Amazon Aurora, Redshift) is a big plus
Excellent communication skills and interpersonal skills to effectively communicate and collaborate with both business and technical teams

Preferred

Experience with real time or micro batch ingestion technologies (Kafka, Kinesis, Pub/Sub, or Dataflow) and data logging/monitoring tools (e.g., Datadog)

Benefits

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Company

DraftKings Inc.

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H1B Sponsorship

DraftKings Inc. has a track record of offering H1B sponsorships. Please note that this does not guarantee sponsorship for this specific role. Below presents additional info for your reference. (Data Powered by US Department of Labor)
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2025 (2)
2023 (5)
2022 (38)
2021 (27)
2020 (27)

Funding

Current Stage
Public Company
Total Funding
$1.64B
Key Investors
Michael JordanManhattan Venture Partners (MVP)Eldridge Industries
2025-03-04Post Ipo Debt· $600M
2024-06-06Post Ipo Equity· $324.04M
2020-09-02Post Ipo Equity

Leadership Team

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Jason Robins
CEO and Co-Founder
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Alan Ellingson
Chief Financial Officer
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