AI-Driven Database Reliability Engineer

DraftKings Inc.

Boston (MA)

On-site

USD 112,000 - 140,000

Full time

14 days+

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Job summary

DraftKings Inc. in Boston, MA is seeking a Database Reliability Engineer to ensure reliability, scalability, and operational excellence of our database infrastructure powering a real-time platform in sports betting and gaming.

You will combine database expertise with software engineering and infrastructure automation to build resilient, self-healing systems, improve performance, and drive reliability across cloud and on-prem environments.

Qualifications

2+ years in Database Reliability or related infra role with a strong DB focus.
Experience with at least one major relational DB, preferably Aurora MySQL.
Stateful workloads on Kubernetes with StatefulSets and PVs and DB operators.
Go or Python for automation and tooling development.
Automation-first mindset with observability, SLOs, capacity planning.

Responsibilities

Drive database reliability across PostgreSQL, MySQL, MongoDB, Redis, ScyllaDB, Aerospike and managed services.
Develop Kubernetes operators and IaC tooling for provisioning, failover, backups, migrations.
Build self-healing infrastructure and internal tooling to reduce toil.
Optimize performance and cost across cloud and on-premise environments.
Collaborate with application engineering on schema reviews, migrations, zero-downtime deployments.
Leverage AI to improve observability and anomaly detection.