Senior Data Engineer

Senior Data Engineer

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At DraftKings, we're inspired by our shared passion for developing creative solutions to complex challenges and empowering the people around us to do their best work. We are industry leaders in the digital entertainment and technology space and are propelled by constant curiosity and diverse perspectives.

Love data? We do too.

We’re growing quickly and are searching for a Senior Data Engineer to act as a creative contributor, leader, and mentor to our data analysis and scalability processes. You will use your experience and expertise to provide key insights that help us make data-driven decisions. Analytical thinking drives our business and when you join our team, you’ll not only solve new problems every day, you’ll see your data solutions immediately improve our users’ experience.

What you’ll do as a Senior Data Engineer:

  • Design processes that support data transformation, structures, metadata, dependency, and workload management.

  • Work with product owners and tech leads to implement high-quality, production-grade data pipelines and ETL processes.

  • Partner with our analytics teams to build tools that provide actionable insights into key business metrics.

  • Leverage your strong communication skills and experience working with global teams to be an evangelist for data engineering across the organization.

  • Be flexible and able to rapidly adapt. We roll out products very quickly and priority management is key.

  • Utilize your experience to mentor, guide, and advise on best practices for delivering performant solutions.

  • Drive an organizational focus on performance analysis, optimization, and tuning.

What You'll Bring:

  • 3-5 years of hands-on experience with business intelligence and data engineering, including data warehousing, delivery, and operations. 

  • Experience working in AWS, Terraform, Python, and with database replication tools/services (e.g., DMS, Attunity) is required.

  • The ability to leverage new technologies to test, build, and optimize data pipelines, transformations, architectures, and data sets.

  • Strong knowledge in a variety of data engines (for example, SQL Server, MySQL, Amazon Aurora, Redshift). Snowflake experience is a big plus.

  • A solid understanding of dimensional modeling is required.

  • Excellent communications skills and interpersonal skills to effectively communicate with both business and technical teams.

  • Experience with data reporting tools (e.g., Tableau), data cataloging tools (e.g., Alation) and data logging/monitoring tools (e.g., Datadog) is preferred.

  • Experience in the i-Gaming industry is a big plus.

Join Us!

Our teams are fueled by innovation. We are looking ahead, building what’s next, and continuously reinventing the industry. We’re a publicly traded (NASDAQ: DKNG) technology company headquartered in Boston, with teams around the world and an expanding global presence.

We strive to create a place where all feel safe, empowered, engaged, championed, and inspired. DraftKings is proud to be an equal opportunity employer. This means we do not tolerate discrimination of any kind and are committed to providing equal employment opportunities regardless of your gender identity, race, nationality, religion, sexual orientation, status as a protected veteran, or status as an individual with a disability.

Ready to build what’s next? Apply now.

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.


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