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

As a Data Engineer, Platform, you will play a critical role in building and scaling the foundational ingestion layer of our data ecosystem. This role focuses on designing and developing high-throughput, fault-tolerant data pipelines that integrates a diverse set of upstream systems into our data lake and data warehouse platforms.

You will work on high-volume, high-frequency data ingestion (batch and real-time), ensuring reliability, observability, and data quality across the platform. In addition to hands-on engineering, you will contribute to evolving Data Ingestion as a platform product, driving standardization, performance optimization, and automation - including leveraging AI-assisted development and intelligent automation frameworks.

What You’ll Do

• Design, build, and maintain scalable data ingestion pipelines supporting a wide range of source systems (APIs, databases, streaming platforms, third-party data providers).
• Develop batch and real-time ingestion frameworks capable of handling high data volumes and low-latency requirements.
• Build fault-tolerant and resilient pipelines with strong guarantees around data integrity, idempotency, and recovery.
• Establish and enhance observability, monitoring, and alerting for ingestion pipelines (latency, throughput, failures, data freshness).
• Implement and enforce data quality checks and validation frameworks at ingestion points.
• Contribute to the development of Data Ingestion as a platform product, including reusable frameworks, standards, and best practices.
• Leverage AI-assisted development tools and automation to accelerate pipeline development, improve code quality, and enhance operational efficiency (e.g., code generation, testing, anomaly detection, workflow automation).
• Partner with upstream system owners and downstream consumers to define data contracts, SLAs, and schema evolution strategies.
• Optimize pipelines for performance, cost, and efficiency across compute and storage layers.
• Use Infrastructure as Code (IaC) to provision and manage ingestion infrastructure in a consistent and scalable manner.
• Collaborate with platform, analytics, and data science teams to ensure seamless data availability and usability.

What You’ll Bring

• 3+ years of experience in data engineering, with a strong focus on data ingestion and pipeline development.
• Proven experience building high-volume data pipelines (batch and/or streaming) in cloud environments.
• Strong hands-on experience with:
• AWS services (e.g., S3, Lambda, Glue, Kinesis, DMS, EventBridge)
• Python and SQL for data processing and pipeline development
• Orchestration tools (e.g., Airflow)
• Experience working with data lakes and data warehouses (e.g., Snowflake, Redshift, Databricks).
• Experience with streaming and event-driven architectures (e.g., Kafka, Kinesis, CDC pipelines).
• Familiarity with Infrastructure as Code (e.g., Terraform) for managing cloud resources.
• Strong understanding of: Data modeling basics, Schema evolution and data contracts, Fault tolerance and idempotent processing
• Experience implementing monitoring and observability using tools such as Datadog, CloudWatch, or similar.

Join Our Team

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The US base salary range for this full-time position is 101,600.00 USD - 127,000.00 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.