Staff Security Engineer, AI

DraftKings; United States; On-site; USD 161,000 - 201,000; Full time

Job summary

DraftKings is seeking a Staff Security Engineer to shape AI security across the platform. You will define guardrails, review AI gateways, and scale security reviews to enable safe production of AI-enabled workflows.

You will mentor engineers, partner with product, platform, privacy, legal, and leadership, and drive remediation of complex security issues in a fast-paced environment. This is a high-impact security leadership role within a global team.

Qualifications

• 7+ years experience in engineering, building and operating production systems.
• 5+ years experience advising on security design.
• Broad security fluency across infrastructure, endpoint, network, identity, SaaS tools, and cloud.
• Hands-on ability to debug systems and hack securely to unlock functionality.
• Experience writing high quality code in typed and untyped languages.
• Excellent collaboration and communication with stakeholders across teams.
• Ability to manage competing priorities in a fast-paced environment.

Responsibilities

• Set the security standards and guardrails for the AI platform.
• Review and architect AI gateways and tooling security.
• Scale security review processes for faster production without lowering quality.
• Reduce AI-driven security noise with telemetry and controls.
• Drive remediation of cross-functional security issues.
• Mentor engineers and elevate the team\'s AI security capabilities.

Skills

Engineering experience

Security design

Cloud security

Code debugging

Multi-language coding

Collaboration

Prioritization

Job description

At DraftKings, AI is becoming an integral part of both our present and future, powering how work gets done today, guiding smarter decisions, and sparking bold ideas. It's transforming how we enhance customer experiences, streamline operations, and unlock new possibilities. Our teams are energized by innovation and readily embrace emerging technology. We're not waiting for the future to arrive. We're shaping it, one bold step at a time. To those who see AI as a driver of progress, come build the future together.

The Crown Is Yours

We're seeking a Staff Security Security Engineer to join our growing security team focused on ensuring our use of emerging technology at DraftKings is done safely and securely, relying on deep technical expertise and knowledge to assess how to safely connect and deploy new workflows, processes, and technologies.

To do this you will work strategically, influencing the company’s overall security posture, architecture, and roadmap in a variety of domains. You'll work with product, engineering and research teams to build and deploy tooling that will help the business connect different services and data together. You'll explain your work to a broad audience spanning from individual contributors in a variety of departments to senior leadership.

The team you're joining is cross-disciplinary, driven, supportive, and global. Each member brings unique, respected perspectives whether they just joined or were founding team members.

What you'll do as a Staff Security Engineer

• Set the security standards and guardrails for the AI platform. Define the principles, reference architectures, and policy-as-code that all AI tooling at DraftKings adheres to, so that many teams can build agents and workflows while still meeting a consistent security bar. Focus on specifying the environment, infrastructure, and authentication methods agents rely on, rather than reviewing every individual implementation.

• Review and build the architecture of AI gateways and tooling. Provide security review, sign-off, and possibly pair on implementation of these systems, and the systems that they interface with.

• Make the security review process scale. Streamline how AI services move through InfoSec review on their way to production, so the bar stays high but does not become the bottleneck.

• Reduce AI-driven security noise. Partner with platform and detection teams on telemetry (tool-call metrics, auditing agents over that data) and on lightweight controls like standardized system prompts that cut unnecessary investigations without slowing engineers down.

• Drive remediation efforts of complex, cross-functional security issues. When relevant, you'll be called into investigations to assist.

• Coach and raise the bar. Mentor security and platform engineers, lead technical and SME discussions on AI security, and elevate the team's overall capability in this space.
  

What you'll bring

• 7+ years experience in engineering - building and operating systems in production.

• 5+ years experience contributing and advising on security design.

• Broad security fluency across infrastructure and enterprise security - endpoint protection, network security, identity, SaaS tools, and cloud security - even if your deepest expertise is in application and product security.

• Deep hands-on ability to debug systems issues. We're comfortable hacking on things to solve security problems, so long as we can unlock functionality and make it usable for the organization.

• Experience writing high quality code in a typed and untyped programming language.

• Excellent collaboration and communication skills — you can align engineering, platform, privacy, legal, and leadership stakeholders, and you bias toward enabling teams rather than blocking them.

• Ability to manage competing priorities and thrive in a fast-paced, dynamic environment.

Join Our Team

We're a publicly traded (NASDAQ: DKNG) technology company headquartered in Boston. As a regulated gaming company, you may be required to obtain a gaming license issued by the appropriate state agency as a condition of employment. Don't worry, we'll guide you through the process if this is relevant to your role.

The US base salary range for this full-time position is 160,700.00 USD - 200,900.00 USD, plus bonus, equity, and benefits as applicable. Our ranges are determined by role, level, and location. The compensation information displayed on each job posting reflects the range for new hire pay rates for the position across all US locations. Within the range, individual pay is determined by work location and additional factors, including job-related skills, experience, and relevant education or training. Your recruiter can share more about the specific pay range and how that was determined during the hiring process. It is unlawful in Massachusetts to require or administer a lie detector test as a condition of employment or continued employment. An employer who violates this law shall be subject to criminal penalties and civil liability.