Data Engineer

DraftKings Inc.

Data Engineer constructing and managing high-throughput data pipelines at DraftKings. Focus on scalable ingestion frameworks and ensuring data integrity across systems.

Posted 6/12/2026full-timeRemote • Massachusetts • 🇺🇸 United StatesMid-LevelSenior💰 $101,600 - $127,000 per yearWebsite

Tech Stack

Tools & technologies

AirflowAmazon RedshiftAWSCloudKafkaPythonSQLTerraform

About the role

Key responsibilities & impact

Design, build, and maintain scalable data ingestion pipelines supporting a wide range of source systems (APIs, databases, streaming platforms, third-party data providers)
Develop batch and real-time ingestion frameworks capable of handling high data volumes and low-latency requirements
Build fault-tolerant and resilient pipelines with strong guarantees around data integrity, idempotency, and recovery
Establish and enhance observability, monitoring, and alerting for ingestion pipelines (latency, throughput, failures, data freshness)
Implement and enforce data quality checks and validation frameworks at ingestion points
Contribute to the development of Data Ingestion as a platform product, including reusable frameworks, standards, and best practices
Leverage AI-assisted development tools and automation to accelerate pipeline development, improve code quality, and enhance operational efficiency (e.g., code generation, testing, anomaly detection, workflow automation)
Partner with upstream system owners and downstream consumers to define data contracts, SLAs, and schema evolution strategies
Optimize pipelines for performance, cost, and efficiency across compute and storage layers
Use Infrastructure as Code (IaC) to provision and manage ingestion infrastructure in a consistent and scalable manner
Collaborate with platform, analytics, and data science teams to ensure seamless data availability and usability.

Requirements

What you’ll need

3+ years of experience in data engineering
Proven experience building high-volume data pipelines (batch and/or streaming) in cloud environments
Strong hands-on experience with: AWS services (e.g., S3, Lambda, Glue, Kinesis, DMS, EventBridge)
Python and SQL for data processing and pipeline development
Orchestration tools (e.g., Airflow)
Experience working with data lakes and data warehouses (e.g., Snowflake, Redshift, Databricks)
Experience with streaming and event-driven architectures (e.g., Kafka, Kinesis, CDC pipelines)
Familiarity with Infrastructure as Code (e.g., Terraform)
Strong understanding of: Data modeling basics, Schema evolution and data contracts, Fault tolerance and idempotent processing
Experience implementing monitoring and observability using tools such as Datadog, CloudWatch, or similar.

Benefits

Comp & perks

bonus
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benefits as applicable

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Hard Skills & Tools

data engineeringdata ingestion pipelinesbatch processingreal-time processingdata quality checksPythonSQLdata modelingInfrastructure as Codemonitoring and observability

Soft Skills

collaborationcommunicationproblem-solvingorganizational skillsattention to detail