
Senior Infrastructure Engineer
DraftKings Inc.
full-time
Posted on:
Location Type: Remote
Location: Massachusetts • United States
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Salary
💰 $128,000 - $160,000 per year
Job Level
About the role
- Design and maintain cloud and on-prem infrastructure using Infrastructure as Code tools like Terraform and Chef.
- Build observability into everything—driving monitoring, alerting, and logging strategies that support application SLOs and overall system reliability.
- Develop deployment platforms and internal tooling that empower teams to move fast while maintaining governance and operational excellence.
- Define and standardize infrastructure patterns, deployment strategies, and configuration best practices across a high-growth engineering org.
- Lead by example—mentor junior engineers, shape infrastructure standards, and influence cross-functional technical decisions.
- Participate in an on-call rotation and lead incident response, including root cause analysis and long-term remediation strategies.
- Partner with security, networking, and application teams to ensure reliability across the full stack—from code to customer.
Requirements
- 5+ years of experience designing, building, and operating production infrastructure across cloud and on-prem environments.
- Expertise in Infrastructure as Code and configuration management using tools like Terraform and Chef.
- Strong coding skills in Python, Go, Ruby, or similar, with experience supporting applications in object-oriented languages.
- Deep understanding of distributed systems, containerization, and Kubernetes operations (e.g., EKS, Rancher).
- Solid grasp of networking and web technologies, including DNS, CDN, and packet-level debugging.
- Familiarity with messaging and streaming platforms such as Kafka and RabbitMQ.
- A collaborative, action-oriented mindset with a passion for scalability, reliability, and continuous improvement.
Benefits
- bonuses
- equity
- benefits as applicable
Applicant Tracking System Keywords
Tip: use these terms in your resume and cover letter to boost ATS matches.
Hard Skills & Tools
Infrastructure as CodeTerraformChefPythonGoRubyKubernetesEKSRanchernetworking
Soft Skills
mentoringcollaborationaction-orientedscalabilityreliabilitycontinuous improvement