Director of Resilience Engineering
DraftKings Inc.
full-time
Posted on:
Location Type: Remote
Location: Remote • 🇺🇸 United States
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💰 $216,000 - $270,000 per year
Job Level
Lead
Tech Stack
CloudDistributed SystemsSDLC
About the role
- Build and lead a new Resilience Engineering team that blends performance, chaos, and reliability practices under one mission.
- Define and execute a resilience strategy focused on systemic risk reduction and continuous performance improvement.
- Develop and evangelize standards, tooling, and playbooks that enable engineering teams to design and operate resilient services.
- Partner with Infrastructure, SRE, and Domain teams to identify high-blast-radius risks and remediate systemic weaknesses.
- Integrate resilience testing into the SDLC, making fault injection and performance validation part of CI/CD.
- Launch and operate a centralized Reliability Lab to support safe chaos experimentation and performance benchmarking.
- Drive adoption of resilience principles through training, enablement, and measurable outcomes.
- Communicate technical strategy and results to senior leadership, connecting engineering impact to customer experience and business value.
Requirements
- Bachelor's degree in Computer Science or any suitable combination of education, experience, and training.
- At least 6 years of experience in a large-scale, growth-oriented environment, with a track record of building and leading high-performing teams.
- Experience in software, platform, or reliability engineering, with at least 4 years in technical leadership.
- Deep expertise in performance optimization, distributed systems scalability, and production reliability.
- Familiarity with chaos engineering tools such as Gremlin and Chaos Mesh, along with observability stacks.
- Strong understanding of cloud-native architecture and large-scale operations.
- Demonstrated ability to define and track reliability KPIs like MTTR, availability, and performance headroom.
- Ability to influence across functions and communicate effectively with senior technical and business stakeholders.
- Experience building enablement platforms or resilience frameworks in regulated or high-availability industries such as fintech, SaaS, or gaming is a plus.
- Background in observability, distributed tracing, or performance analytics is a plus.
Benefits
- bonus
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Hard skills
resilience engineeringperformance optimizationdistributed systems scalabilityproduction reliabilitychaos engineeringreliability KPIsfault injectionperformance validationcloud-native architectureobservability
Soft skills
leadershipcommunicationinfluencetrainingenablementcollaborationstrategic thinkingproblem-solvingstakeholder engagementteam building