PrizePicks

Backend Engineer

• Advocate for improvements to product quality, security, and performance
• Collaborate with stakeholders to maintain a high bar for quality
• Collaborate with team members to solve technical and product challenges
• Develop product features and technical improvements to the PrizePicks ecosystem
• Develop unit or end-to-end testing for the PrizePicks ecosystem
• Follow best practice guidelines for maintainability and style
• Participate in on-call incident rotations
• Participate in code reviews
• Study and learn previous software patterns in the PrizePicks ecosystem
• Advocate for improvements that have an impact across your team
• Collaborate with the team on larger projects
• Diagnose and fix performance and optimization problems
• Define, advocate and improve best practices for maintainability and style
• Define a technical path from product idea to deployment
• Provide mentorship to Software Engineers I, II, and III across your team
• Ship features and improvements to the PrizePicks ecosystem with little to no guidance from across the team
• Solve product challenges and technical problems of high scope and complexity

Senior Backend Engineer, Ruby on Rails

Product Operations

• Actively monitor all live sporting events offered by PrizePicks
• Consistent communication with Member Support and other departments regarding any scoring disputes that may arise
• Ensure scoring details are correct across all offered sports markets
• Editing entries and paying out as needed
• Ensure all sporting events offered by PrizePicks are scored and finalized in a timely manner after the conclusion of the event
• Monitoring start times for certain markets
• Resettling incorrect settlements and stat adjustments
• Report product automation inefficiencies to pertinent stakeholders
• Upload player images when needed
• Upload new player rosters (esports)
• Monitor for injured players and execute the Reboot Policy
• Handle the execution of early settlements, outside of traditional settlements
• Additional responsibilities as assigned or requested

Product Operations Specialist – Game Operations

Site Reliability Engineer

• Security team works in Engineering on the Infrastructure team to further develop our security practices, write and implement security policies, advise on best practices while implementing tooling to protect the company and our remarkable customers.
• Manage and maintain edge and bot protection (e.g., WAF, CDN, DDoS mitigation).
• Perform security-focused infrastructure reviews for new product releases and architectural changes.
• Implement and maintain monitoring and alerting tools to detect cloud and container-related vulnerabilities and misconfigurations.
• Collaborate with DevOps and Engineering teams to embed security into CI/CD pipelines and deployment processes without slowing down delivery.
• Partner with Application Security and Engineering to implement security controls on opportunities identified during Threat Modeling.
• Lead initiatives around infrastructure-as-code (IaC) security and runtime protection to automate security controls and hardening.
• Assist with threat modeling, risk assessments, and provide security guidance during the development lifecycle.
• Collaborate with incident response teams, offering expert advice on cloud-related security issues to help resolve incidents quickly.
• Develop tooling or automation to support proactive remediation and continuous security validation.
• Track and report DevSecOps KPIs, such as mean time to remediate, security control coverage, and vulnerability trends.

Senior Security Engineer, DevSecOps

Marketing Analyst

• Own the analytics workstream of the reinvestment budget including optimizing spend, projecting costs, and guiding strategy to improve customer lifetime value
• Analyze customer behavior, retention trends, and lifecycle metrics to identify key drivers of engagement and churn
• Build and maintain dashboards, reports, and models to track retention performance, reinvestment, and program ROI
• Partner with marketing, product, and analytics teams to design and implement targeted retention initiatives
• Conduct cohort, segmentation, and behavioral analyses to uncover actionable insights
• Present findings and recommendations to senior stakeholders to inform strategic decisions

Senior Backend Engineer, Ruby on Rails

Product Operations Specialist – Game Operations

Senior Security Engineer, DevSecOps

Senior Retention Marketing Analyst