Cloud DB Reliability Engineer: Automation & AI

DraftKings; Boston (MA); On-site; USD 112,000 - 140,000; Full time

Job summary

DraftKings is seeking a Database Reliability Engineer to ensure the reliability, scalability, and operational excellence of our database infrastructure powering a demanding real-time sports betting platform.

You’ll combine database expertise with software engineering to build resilient systems, automate provisioning and failover, and optimize performance across cloud and on-prem environments while working closely with developer teams to enable zero-downtime deployments.

Qualifications

• At least 2 years of experience in Database Reliability Engineering, Database Platform Engineering, Site Reliability Engineering, or related infra role with strong DB focus.
• Experience with at least one major relational DB, preferably Aurora MySQL, and experience with PostgreSQL, MongoDB, ScyllaDB, Aurora, or other managed cloud DB services.
• Hands-on software development in Go or Python to build automation and platform tooling for Kubernetes controllers and APIs.

Responsibilities

• Drive database reliability across PostgreSQL, MySQL, MongoDB, Redis, ScyllaDB, Aerospike and managed cloud services.
• Build automation-first DB platforms using Kubernetes operators, IaC, GitOps, and production tooling in Go or Python.
• Develop self-healing infrastructure and internal tooling to reduce toil and improve engineering efficiency.
• Optimize DB performance and cost across cloud and on-prem environments, including capacity planning and tuning.
• Collaborate with application teams on safe DB practices, schema reviews, migrations, and zero-downtime deployments.
• Leverage AI to improve observability, anomaly detection, root cause analysis, and AI-generated code evaluation for reliability.

Skills

Database reliability

Kubernetes

Go or Python

Observability

Automation

AI tooling

Cloud platforms

Tools

Terraform

Pulumi

FluxCD

ArgoCD

GKE

EKS

Aurora MySQL

PostgreSQL

MongoDB

ScyllaDB

Redis

Job description

DraftKings is seeking a Database Reliability Engineer to ensure the reliability, scalability, and operational excellence of our database infrastructure powering a demanding real-time sports betting platform.

You’ll combine database expertise with software engineering to build resilient systems, automate provisioning and failover, and optimize performance across cloud and on-prem environments while working closely with developer teams to enable zero-downtime deployments.