Senior Site Reliability Engineer, Infrastructure
DraftKings6 days ago
Boston, MA, USASenior
Base Salary
$128k - $160k/yr
Responsibilities
- Drive stability, performance, and scalability across a global compute platform spanning multiple public clouds and on-premise environments.
- Build self-healing, fault-tolerant infrastructure and internal tooling that automates repetitive operational work and reduces toil.
- Operate and evolve the GitOps delivery model using Rancher Fleet, Flux, and Helm.
- Own Kubernetes scaling and capacity strategies using Karpenter, Horizontal Pod Autoscaler, Kubernetes Event-Driven Autoscaling, and predictive scaling.
- Define and monitor service-level objectives and reliability metrics using Datadog and the logging pipeline.
- Contribute to architecture and design discussions, share knowledge, and participate in an on-call rotation.
Requirements
- Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science or a related field, or equivalent education, experience, and training.
- At least 4 years of experience managing distributed cloud and on-premise environments at scale.
- Strong hands-on experience with Amazon Web Services.
- Deep expertise in Kubernetes and container orchestration, including designing, scaling, and troubleshooting complex workloads.
- Strong software development experience with Go and Python for automation and infrastructure tooling.
- Working knowledge of networking and Linux-based systems, Docker, containerd, packet-level debugging, and kernel troubleshooting.
- Experience with Infrastructure as Code and configuration management tools.
- Experience with Google Cloud Platform, vSphere, or Nutanix is a plus.
Benefits
- Full-time position with bonus, equity, and benefits as applicable.
- Applicants may be required to obtain a gaming license issued by the appropriate state agency, with guidance provided by DraftKings.
Tech Stack
Categories
DevOpsSite Reliability
About DraftKings
DraftKings builds consumer platforms for daily fantasy sports, online sports betting, and real-money casino games in regulated markets. It generates revenue from wagers, fantasy contest entry fees, and casino gameplay, delivered via mobile and web apps. Founded in 2012 and headquartered in Boston, the company is publicly traded on NASDAQ and operates across many U.S. states and Ontario.