The Crown Is Yours
As a Senior Platform Engineer, you'll play a pivotal role in shaping the future of our engineering platform. You'll join one of our foundational Platform Engineering teams, dedicated to building and refining tools that power development across the company. As we scale rapidly, your work will drive essential features, optimize existing systems, and ensure our infrastructure meets the highest standards for performance and reliability. You'll have the opportunity to solve complex challenges, build scalable systems, and drive automation across a rapidly growing engineering organization.
What You'll Do
- Contribute to the full development lifecycle-from design to implementation, testing, deployment, and maintenance.
- Write clean, efficient, and scalable code in C# and .NET Core, applying best practices for maintainability and performance.
- Build and enhance platform infrastructure through software development, enabling reliable and efficient engineering workflows.
- Apply GitOps methodologies to streamline deployment processes and manage infrastructure as code.
- Operate and optimize Kubernetes-based infrastructure, automating deployments using Helm Charts.
- Collaborate with stakeholders to gather requirements and deliver solutions that support business and technical goals.
- Conduct code reviews and mentor junior engineers, contributing to the growth of team capabilities.
- Champion platform reliability and scalability through thoughtful architecture, tooling, and automation.
What You'll Bring
- Bachelor's degree in Computer Science or any suitable combination of education, experience, and training.
- At least 3 years of professional software development experience, with hands-on proficiency in C# and .NET Core.
- Experience building and maintaining distributed systems and microservice architectures.
- Strong debugging and troubleshooting skills, especially in complex, distributed environments.
- Solid experience with Kubernetes and containerization technologies.
- Deep understanding of the Software Development Life Cycle (SDLC) and modern deployment strategies like canary and blue-green deployments.
- Familiarity with cloud platforms such as AWS or Google Cloud Platform.
- Knowledge of GitOps practices and infrastructure automation tools.
- Experience writing and executing performance tests using tools such as K6, Gatling, Locust, JMeter, or similar technologies is considered an advantage.
- Familiarity with observability platforms such as Datadog and the ELK stack is a plus.
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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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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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Employees engage in a combination of remote and on-site work.
Our flexible hybrid policy empowers team members to work where they’re most productive—whether at home or in our collaborative offices. We trust our teams to choose what works best for them to thrive and innovate.
