Lead Site Reliability Engineer

1 Month ago • 6 Years + • DevOps • $148,000 PA - $185,000 PA

Job Summary

Job Description

As a Lead Site Reliability Engineer at DraftKings, you will lead SRE initiatives across multiple projects and products, collaborating with cross-functional teams to shape platform and infrastructure engineering efforts. You will mentor and guide engineers, fostering a culture of continuous learning and innovation. Responsibilities include architecting and automating self-healing infrastructure, designing and maintaining software-driven infrastructure automation, owning deployment decisions, defining key metrics and SLAs, and designing monitoring and alerting strategies. This role requires expertise in cloud environments, Kubernetes, containerization, networking, and software development (Go, Python). You will also lead engineering teams and guide technology roadmaps in large-scale, distributed environments.
Must have:
  • 6+ years managing distributed cloud environments
  • Kubernetes & container expertise
  • Networking & web concepts expertise
  • Software development (Go, Python)
  • IaC & configuration management
  • Leading engineering teams
Good to have:
  • Experience with object-oriented languages (C#/.NET, Java)
Perks:
  • Bonus
  • Equity
  • Benefits

Job Details

We’re defining what it means to build and deliver the most extraordinary sports and entertainment experiences. Our global team is trailblazing new markets, developing cutting-edge products, and shaping the future of responsible gaming.

Here, “impossible” isn’t part of our vocabulary. You’ll face some of the toughest but most rewarding challenges of your career. They’re worth it. Channeling your inner grit will accelerate your growth, help us win as a team, and create unforgettable moments for our customers.

The Crown Is Yours

As a Lead Site Reliability Engineer, you will drive key initiatives to enhance the reliability, scalability, and efficiency of our infrastructure. You’ll collaborate across teams to architect infrastructure automation while mentoring other Engineers to foster a culture of continuous learning and innovation. In this role, you will shape deployment strategies, performance tuning, and monitoring frameworks to support our rapid growth.

What you’ll do as a Lead Site Reliability Engineer

  • Lead SRE initiatives across multiple projects and products, collaborating with cross-functional teams to shape platform and infrastructure engineering efforts across the organization.

  • Drive technical excellence by mentoring and guiding engineers, fostering a culture of continuous learning and innovation.

  • Architect and automate self-healing, fault-tolerant infrastructure with declarative configurations, GitOps, and event-driven automation for scalable deployments across public clouds and on-premise.

  • Design, develop, and maintain software-driven infrastructure automation to build internal tools and eliminate repetitive operational tasks.

  • Own and drive decisions on product deployment, performance tuning, monitoring, and alerting to ensure high availability and system efficiency in production.

  • Define key metrics and SLAs around new web services being created to support our rapid traffic growth.

  • Design and implement monitoring and alerting strategies to enforce application SLAs.

 

What you’ll bring   

  • At least 6 years of experience managing distributed cloud environments (GCP, AWS, vSphere, Nutanix) and platform automation at scale.

  • Deep expertise in container orchestration (Kubernetes) and containerd runtimes (Docker, containers), with the ability to design, scale, and troubleshoot complex workloads.

  • Expert-level understanding of networking and web concepts, with the ability to debug issues down to the packet level.

  • Strong experience developing software for automation and infrastructure tooling (Go, Python).

  • Strong understanding of Linux-based operating systems, including performance tuning, kernel debugging, and low-level system optimizations.

  • Experience with Infrastructure as Code (IaC) and configuration management tools (Terraform, Ansible, Chef, etc.), ensuring scalable and repeatable infrastructure provisioning.

  • Understanding of applications written in object-oriented languages (C#/.NET, Java).

  • Experience leading engineering teams and guiding technology roadmaps in large-scale, distributed environments.

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 148,000.00 USD - 185,000.00 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.

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