Senior Infrastructure Engineer

DraftKings Inc. is a publicly traded technology company focused on innovation in the gaming industry. As a Senior Infrastructure Engineer, you will design, build, and operate the infrastructure that powers DraftKings products, ensuring performance, reliability, and scalability.

Responsibilities:

• Design and maintain cloud and on-prem infrastructure using Infrastructure as Code tools like Terraform and Chef
• Build observability into everything—driving monitoring, alerting, and logging strategies that support application SLOs and overall system reliability
• Develop deployment platforms and internal tooling that empower teams to move fast while maintaining governance and operational excellence
• Define and standardize infrastructure patterns, deployment strategies, and configuration best practices across a high-growth engineering org
• Lead by example—mentor junior engineers, shape infrastructure standards, and influence cross-functional technical decisions
• Participate in an on-call rotation and lead incident response, including root cause analysis and long-term remediation strategies
• Partner with security, networking, and application teams to ensure reliability across the full stack—from code to customer

Requirements:

• 5+ years of experience designing, building, and operating production infrastructure across cloud and on-prem environments
• Expertise in Infrastructure as Code and configuration management using tools like Terraform and Chef
• Strong coding skills in Python, Go, Ruby, or similar, with experience supporting applications in object-oriented languages
• Deep understanding of distributed systems, containerization, and Kubernetes operations (e.g., EKS, Rancher)
• Solid grasp of networking and web technologies, including DNS, CDN, and packet-level debugging
• Familiarity with messaging and streaming platforms such as Kafka and RabbitMQ
• A collaborative, action-oriented mindset with a passion for scalability, reliability, and continuous improvement