Senior Site Reliability Engineer

DraftKings Inc.

Senior Site Reliability Engineer at DraftKings managing global compute platforms and driving stability. Building tools for reliability and collaborating in a team culture.

Posted 6/2/2026full-timeRemote • Massachusetts • 🇺🇸 United StatesSenior💰 $128,000 - $160,000 per yearWebsite

Tech Stack

Tools & technologies

AWSCloudDockerFluxGoGoogle Cloud PlatformKubernetesLinuxPython

About the role

Key responsibilities & impact

Drive stability and scalability across our global compute platform spanning numerous data centers, multiple public clouds, and on-premise environments, serving as the foundation for every product
Operate and evolve our GitOps delivery model, using Rancher Fleet and Flux with Helm to deploy core cluster services and application workloads declaratively and repeatably
Build self-healing, fault-tolerant infrastructure and internal tooling that eliminates repetitive operational work and reduces toil for both platform and application teams
Own cluster autoscaling and capacity strategy, including Karpenter, HPA and KEDA, and predictive scaling driven by event and calendar data
Define SLOs and reliability metrics for platform components, using Datadog and our logging pipeline to surface cluster and workload health
Support technical growth by sharing knowledge, participating in design discussions, and contributing to a collaborative team culture, including on-call rotation

Requirements

What you’ll need

Bachelor's degree in Computer Science or relevant education, experience, and training
At least 4 years managing distributed cloud and on-premise environments at scale, with strong hands-on AWS experience
Exposure to GCP, vSphere, or Nutanix is a plus
Deep expertise in container orchestration with Kubernetes, including the ability to design, scale, and troubleshoot complex workloads
Strong experience developing software for automation and infrastructure tooling such as Go and Python
Working knowledge of networking and Linux-based systems, including container runtimes such as Docker and containerd, packet-level debugging, and kernel troubleshooting
Experience with Infrastructure as Code (IaC) and configuration management tools to ensure scalable and repeatable infrastructure provisioning

Benefits

Comp & perks

bonuses
equity
benefits as applicable

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Hard Skills & Tools

GitOpsRancher FleetFluxHelmKubernetesGoPythonInfrastructure as CodeLinuxDocker

Soft Skills

collaborative team cultureknowledge sharingdesign discussionson-call rotation

Certifications

Bachelor's degree in Computer Science