The Crown Is Yours
As a Senior Data Engineer, Platform you will be a key contributor to a data team centered around the mission of providing a best-in-class experience for our products and customers. In this role, you'll be leveraging your technical expertise in all aspects of "Infrastructure as Code" (IaC) to enhance and build out our data platform. You will be working across teams, informing business decisions, helping to expand our platform, and define standards and best practices for platform use.
What you'll do as a Senior Data Engineer, Platform
- Demonstrate leadership and ownership of the platform to deliver services for projects and users.
- Provide infrastructure guidance of data platform capabilities to accommodate business/technical use cases.
- Leverage your strong communication skills to keep users informed and provide excellent quality of service.
- Automate and manage provisioning needs, such as Snowflake storage and compute, Role Based Access Control model, and permissions.
- 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.
What you'll bring:
- A proven track record of administration, engineering, and operationalizing the Snowflake, Databricks or similar Cloud Data Platform.
- Experience working in AWS, Terraform, CloudFormation, Python, and database replication tools/services (e.g., AWS DMS).
- Experience working with CI/CD pipelines and deployment automation
- Experience with a variety of data logging/monitoring tools, such as DataDog,
- Strong experience with SQL and knowledge in a variety of data engines (for example, SQL Server, MySQL, Amazon Aurora, Redshift) is a big plus.
- Experience writing software (preferably with Python)
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.
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Skills Required
- Administration, engineering, and operationalizing Snowflake, Databricks or similar Cloud Data Platform
- Experience with AWS
- Experience with Terraform
- Experience with CloudFormation
- Experience with Python
- Experience with database replication tools/services (e.g., AWS DMS)
- Experience with CI/CD pipelines and deployment automation
- Experience with data logging/monitoring tools (e.g., DataDog)
- Strong SQL experience
- Knowledge of SQL Server, MySQL, Amazon Aurora, Redshift
- Experience configuring and monitoring Airflow (replication latency, cluster & query performance)
- Experience automating Snowflake provisioning, RBAC model, and permissions
- Experience integrating Snowflake with AWS services (S3, IAM, SSO)
What the Team is Saying
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Parental & Family Support — Company materials highlight 14 weeks of fully paid parental leave globally along with adoption/fostering support, fertility coverage (Progyny), childcare assistance (Care.com), and lactation resources. Feedback suggests these programs provide meaningful, inclusive support for families at different stages.
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Wellbeing & Lifestyle Benefits — Health coverage with day-one eligibility is complemented by Lyra therapy/EAP, Calm, wellness programs, and fitness reimbursement, with some offices offering on‑site amenities. Feedback suggests this breadth enhances everyday wellbeing beyond standard medical plans.
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Retirement Support — A 401(k) plan with employer match and financial‑planning tools are included as core benefits. Feedback suggests retirement matching offers stable long‑term value within the total rewards mix.
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What We Do
It's simple, at DraftKings, we believe life is more fun when you're in on the action. For that reason, we’re committed to responsibly creating the world’s favorite games and betting experiences. We’re developing the most innovative and entertaining real money products and offers; to forever transform how people experience sports; to be a fully vertically integrated sports betting operator. It's our ultimate goal to build the best, most trusted, and most customer-centric destination for our players. We’re defining what it means to build and deliver the most extraordinary sports and entertainment experiences. Our global team is trailblazing new markets, developing cutting-edge products, and shaping the future of responsible gaming.
Why Work With Us
Here, “impossible” isn’t part of our vocabulary. You’ll face some of the toughest but most rewarding challenges of your career. They’re worth it. Channeling your inner grit will accelerate your growth, help us win as a team, and create unforgettable moments for our customers. Ready to own what’s next?
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