Senior Lead Database Reliability & Automation Engineer

Devopsroles; Boston (MA); Híbrido; USD 168.000 - 210.000; Jornada completa

Descripción de la vacante

DraftKings is seeking a Senior Lead Reliability Engineer, Database, to own the reliability, scalability, and operations of our database infrastructure powering one of the most demanding real-time platforms in sports betting. You will blend database expertise with software engineering to build resilient, self-healing systems across cloud and on-prem environments.

You’ll drive the roadmap for major databases, implement automation-first tooling, define SLOs, monitor health, and lead critical

Formación

• 6+ years in Database Reliability Engineering or related field.
• Deep PostgreSQL expertise with operational experience in MySQL, MongoDB, Redis, ScyllaDB or Aerospike.
• Hands-on experience with Kubernetes-based operators, Terraform, Pulumi, FluxCD/ArgoCD and cloud services.
• Go or Python for automation and tooling to reduce manual effort.
• Strong leadership, mentoring, and cross-team collaboration in large-scale environments.

Responsabilidades

• Drive the technical roadmap for database reliability across PostgreSQL, MySQL, MongoDB and more.
• Design and build automation-first database platforms with Kubernetes operators and IaC.
• Define SLOs, monitor health, and drive incident resolution and continuous improvement.
• Optimize performance and cost across cloud and on‑prem environments; capacity planning and tuning.
• Partner with application teams on safe DB practices and zero-downtime deployments.
• Leverage AI for observability, anomaly detection, and predictive insights.
• Mentor engineers and influence architectural decisions across teams.

Conocimientos

Leadership

DB Reliability

Go or Python

PostgreSQL

Cloud & On-Prem

Herramientas

Kubernetes

Terraform

Pulumi

FluxCD

ArgoCD

GKE/EKS

Descripción del empleo

DraftKings is seeking a Senior Lead Reliability Engineer, Database, to own the reliability, scalability, and operations of our database infrastructure powering one of the most demanding real-time platforms in sports betting. You will blend database expertise with software engineering to build resilient, self-healing systems across cloud and on-prem environments.

You’ll drive the roadmap for major databases, implement automation-first tooling, define SLOs, monitor health, and lead critical