Senior Software Engineer

At DraftKings, AI is becoming an integral part of both our present and future, powering how work gets done today, guiding smarter decisions, and sparking bold ideas. It's transforming how we enhance customer experiences, streamline operations, and unlock new possibilities. Our teams are energized by innovation and readily embrace emerging technology. We're not waiting for the future to arrive. We're shaping it, one bold step at a time. To those who see AI as a driver of progress, come build the future together.
The Crown Is Yours
As a Senior Software Engineer, you'll help build and scale the real-time event tracking infrastructure that powers communications, analytics, and data science models across DraftKings. These systems process millions of events per second, ensuring timely, accurate data delivery to consumers across the company. You'll join a team focused on high performance, scalability, and operational excellence in a modern, cloud-native environment.
What you'll do as a Senior Software Engineer

• Design and maintain high-throughput, distributed backend services in C# using microservices architecture.
• Develop and operate messaging and streaming systems that handle large-scale real-time data.
• Ensure low-latency, fault-tolerant event pipelines that can scale under load.
• Collaborate closely with engineers, architects, and data stakeholders to evolve the platform's event processing capabilities.
• Support production services with a focus on reliability, observability, and continuous improvement.

What you'll bring

• 4+ years of professional experience in backend development with C#.
• Strong knowledge of distributed systems and microservices design.
• Practical experience with modern messaging and event streaming technologies (e.g., Kafka, RabbitMQ, AWS Kinesis).
• Solid understanding of cloud environments (preferably AWS), containerization (Docker), and orchestration tools (Kubernetes).
• Proficiency with SQL and experience analyzing structured event data to support debugging, validation, and downstream data use.
• A focus on writing maintainable, high-performance code and building resilient infrastructure.
• Effective communication skills and a collaborative mindset.

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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.