Data Engineer
As a Data Engineer, you will build data capabilities that power regulatory reporting, financial operations, and intelligent experiences across the DraftKings platform. You will create scalable data infrastructure that transforms complex transactional data into trusted, reporting-ready datasets while contributing to the future of a modern data platform.
Working across Engineering, Compliance, Analytics, and business teams, you will solve technical challenges, improve how data flows across the organisation, and build foundations that enable AI-powered experiences and smarter decision-making.
- Build scalable, high-performance data infrastructure that transforms complex transactional and financial data into trusted, reporting-ready datasets supporting regulatory reporting, financial operations, and business insights.
- Develop reliable data solutions that prioritise accuracy, completeness, traceability, and auditability while supporting regulatory compliance and highly governed business processes.
- Leverage AI throughout the software development lifecycle to improve engineering productivity, enhance data quality, and build trusted data products that enable AI-powered applications and natural language access to data.
- Partner with Engineering, Compliance, Analytics, and cross-functional stakeholders to translate business and regulatory requirements into scalable, analytics-ready data models and solutions.
- Design, optimise, and maintain modern data models while following best practices for data quality, governance, observability, and platform reliability.
- Build and optimise cloud-based data pipelines and streaming solutions using technologies such as Snowflake, Databricks, Kafka, or similar distributed data platforms.
- Contribute to engineering best practices for data transformation, streaming, platform performance, and operational excellence while collaborating with and learning from the Data Engineering Team.
- Collaborate in an agile environment to deliver scalable, resilient solutions that evolve alongside business priorities and platform capabilities.
- A Bachelor's Degree in Computer Science or a related field, or an equivalent combination of education, training, and professional experience (required)
- At least 2 years of experience designing, building, and maintaining scalable data platforms and distributed data systems (required)
- Strong proficiency in Python and SQL, with hands-on experience developing real-time or batch data processing solutions (required)
- Experience building cloud-based data platforms using technologies such as Snowflake, Databricks, Kafka, or similar distributed data processing and streaming technologies (required)
- Experience working with cloud infrastructure, preferably Amazon Web Services (AWS), along with infrastructure and DevOps tools such as Terraform, PagerDuty, and Datadog (required)
- Understanding of modern data architecture, including data warehousing, data lakes, ETL frameworks, and scalable data modeling techniques (required)
- Experience building trusted data solutions that support financial operations, regulatory reporting, auditability, reconciliation, or other highly governed data domains (required)
- Experience supporting CFTC-regulated markets or financial services (preferred)
- Hands-on experience using AI-assisted engineering tools such as Claude Code, Codex, or similar technologies to automate workflows, build intelligent agents, and accelerate software development (required)
- Strong communication and collaboration skills, with the ability to thrive in a fast-paced environment while partnering effectively across technical and business teams (required)
- Comprehensive health benefits, including various medical plans, dental, and vision.
- Wellbeing program with free therapy sessions, employee assistance programmes, the Calm App, and virtual yoga classes.
- 14 weeks of 100% paid parental leave to all global team members and workplace lactation support.
- Partnership with Care.com for backup childcare for US employees.
- Family planning benefits supporting adoption, surrogacy, fertility treatments, and other family planning needs.
- Flexible PTO for US employees.
- Pet insurance to help save on vet expenses.
- Gym reimbursement for part of gym membership costs.
- Financial planning support, including 401(k) matching and Origin Financial programmes.
- Commuter benefits to help lower daily commute costs.
- Tuition reimbursement programme for educational courses related to positions.
DraftKings Inc. is a leading American digital sports entertainment and gaming company, headquartered in Boston, Massachusetts. Founded in 2012, it started in daily fantasy sports and has grown into one of the largest US online sportsbook and iGaming operators. The company offers mobile sports betting, online casino and daily fantasy contests across regulated North American markets. DraftKings is listed on the Nasdaq stock exchange and employs several thousand people.
