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DraftKings Engineering Team

As a global tech company, we highly value close collaboration and communication. Fostering open and engaging cross-functional work across all parts of the business is a critical point of emphasis and key to finding success at DraftKings. We are a team of builders and problem solvers. From optimizing the end-user experience to working with different coding languages, you’ll find your next challenge here.

What People Are Saying About DraftKings

  • Autonomy: Teams are expected to own services end to end in a modern microservices/Kubernetes/AWS environment, with engineers trusted to propose and drive architectural changes quickly. Feedback suggests the “you build it, you run it” ethos gives individuals clear control over production outcomes.
  • Learning & Development: Internal mobility, structured paths, and frequent tech talks/conference support create regular opportunities to level up while working on real-time, high-scale systems. Feedback suggests engineers learn rapidly through hands-on ownership and cross-team knowledge sharing.
  • Team Support: Colleagues are often described as collaborative and willing to help, with deliberate rituals like DK Immersion and cross-time-zone cadences keeping distributed teams connected. Feedback suggests close partner work with product and strong knowledge-sharing make complex, game-day challenges more manageable.

What People Are Saying About DraftKings

  • Belonging & Inclusion: New hires participate in an in-person DK Immersion onboarding in Boston designed to forge early team bonds across locations. This structured experience helps distributed teams feel connected to the Boston hub from the start.
  • Community Impact: The Boston location engages with the local engineering ecosystem through involvement with groups like NSBE Boston. This outreach reflects an active presence in the city’s tech community.
  • Recognition: The Boston hub has been included in recent Best Places to Work honors from Built In. This external spotlight indicates a workplace that is publicly recognized in the Boston market.

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Lead complex cybersecurity investigations across endpoints, identity systems, cloud environments, and production workloads. Serve as regional incident commander, conduct root-cause analysis, containment, eradication, threat hunting, and post-incident hardening. Develop investigative tools, detections, telemetry, and automation; document incidents for technical and executive audiences; coordinate cross-functional response; and mentor security analysts.
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Lead complex cybersecurity investigations across endpoint, identity, cloud, SaaS, CI/CD, and production environments. Serve as regional incident commander, conduct triage through eradication, investigate novel threats, develop detection and automation, document incidents, drive post-incident hardening, and mentor analysts. The role requires strong incident response, threat hunting, forensics, cloud monitoring, scripting, and security tooling expertise.
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Lead the design, automation, and scaling of global compute infrastructure across data centers, cloud, and on-prem. Operate GitOps with Rancher Fleet/Flux/Helm, build self-healing tooling, own cluster autoscaling and capacity strategy, define SLOs using Datadog, and participate in on-call rotation while mentoring peers.

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problems we solve

The Mobile Engineering team is building the best possible experience for anyone who interacts with any of our DraftKings products on a mobile device. Over the last several years, technologies for writing mobile apps have changed drastically, and keeping up with the changes has become necessary to stay current. Our team is currently at this juncture—we are migrating to new foundations for our iOS and Android systems. Migrations like this don’t happen often, and it’s a huge career opportunity to take part in this project.