Senior Data Engineer: Real-Time AI Pipelines

Global Sports Jobs Limited; United States; Remote; USD 130,000 - 190,000; Full time

Job summary

DraftKings is seeking a Senior Data Engineer to build real-time data capabilities powering analytics and intelligent experiences across the platform. You will design scalable data infrastructure and transform complex data into trusted insights for faster decisions.

Collaborating with Engineering, Analytics, and business teams, you’ll tackle challenging problems, foster data quality and governance, and mentor teammates in an agile environment.

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree in Computer Science or a related field or equivalent experience.
• 3+ years designing, building, and maintaining scalable data platforms and distributed systems.
• Strong Python and SQL skills with hands-on real-time streaming experience.
• Experience with Snowflake, Databricks, Kafka, and modern cloud-based data platforms.
• Familiarity with Terraform, PagerDuty, and Datadog for infrastructure and monitoring.
• Understanding of data warehousing, data lakes, ETL, and Data Vault/Star Schema modeling.
• Experience with NoSQL databases such as MongoDB or DynamoDB.
• Hands-on experience using AI-assisted engineering tools to build agents and automate workflows.
• Excellent communication and cross-functional collaboration; ability to mentor engineers.

Responsibilities

• Build scalable data infrastructure transforming raw and historical data into insights.
• Design and maintain real-time and batch pipelines using Kafka, Databricks, Snowflake.
• Develop data solutions powering reporting, analytics, and platform insights.
• Create AI-powered data experiences enabling natural language data exploration.
• Partner with Engineering, Analytics, and stakeholders to translate requirements.
• Design and optimize data models (Star Schema, Data Vault) with quality and governance.
• Mentor teammates and drive best practices in data engineering and platform performance.
• Collaborate in an agile environment delivering scalable solutions for evolving needs.

Skills

Python

SQL

Data engineering

Cross-functional collaboration

Mentoring

Agile

Communication

Real-time data streaming

Education

Bachelor's degree in Computer Science or related field

Tools

Snowflake

Databricks

Kafka

Terraform

PagerDuty

Datadog

MongoDB

DynamoDB

Job description

DraftKings is seeking a Senior Data Engineer to build real-time data capabilities powering analytics and intelligent experiences across the platform. You will design scalable data infrastructure and transform complex data into trusted insights for faster decisions.

Collaborating with Engineering, Analytics, and business teams, you’ll tackle challenging problems, foster data quality and governance, and mentor teammates in an agile environment.