Senior Data Engineer
As a Senior Data Engineer, you'll build the data foundation that powers regulatory reporting, financial operations, and intelligent experiences across DraftKings' platform. You'll design and scale modern data infrastructure that transforms complex transactional data into trusted, reporting-ready datasets, helping teams make confident decisions while meeting evolving regulatory requirements.
Working across Engineering, Compliance, Analytics, and business teams, you'll solve complex technical challenges, influence the evolution of our data architecture, and help shape the next generation of AI-powered capabilities.
- Build scalable, high-performance data infrastructure that transforms complex transactional and financial data into trusted datasets for regulatory reporting and business operations.
- Develop reliable data pipelines and data products that power regulatory reporting, financial operations, analytics, and operational insights while ensuring data accuracy and reliability.
- Design, build, and optimise modern data models and distributed data pipelines.
- Leverage AI throughout the software development lifecycle to improve engineering productivity, strengthen data quality, and build trusted data products.
- Collaborate with cross-functional stakeholders to translate complex business and regulatory requirements into scalable, analytics-ready data models and solutions.
- Mentor Data Engineering teammates by sharing best practices, providing technical guidance, and helping raise engineering standards across the team.
- Collaborate in an agile environment to deliver scalable data solutions that support evolving business and regulatory needs.
- At least 3 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 both real-time and batch data processing solutions (required).
- Experience with modern cloud-based data platforms using technologies such as Snowflake, Databricks, Kafka, or similar distributed data processing and streaming technologies (required).
- Experience with cloud infrastructure, preferably Amazon Web Services (AWS), as well as tools such as Terraform, Datadog, and PagerDuty (required).
- A strong understanding of data warehousing, data lakes, ETL frameworks, distributed data processing, and modern data modeling techniques (required).
- Experience building trusted data solutions that support financial operations, regulatory reporting, auditability, reconciliation, or other highly governed data domains (required).
- Hands-on experience with AI-assisted engineering tools such as Claude Code, Codex, or similar technologies (required).
- Fluency in English (required).
- Comprehensive health benefits, including various medical plans, dental, and vision.
- Wellbeing Program: Free therapy sessions with Lyra Mental Health Solution, Lyra Employee Assistance Program, the Calm App, Virtual Yoga Classes, and more.
- Parental Leave & Support: 14 weeks of 100% paid parental leave to all global team members and workplace lactation support.
- Family Planning: Support for adoption, surrogacy, fertility treatments, or other family planning needs.
- Vacation Days: 25 vacation days per year for teammates in Bulgaria.
- Food Voucher: 200 BGN food vouchers per month for teammates in Bulgaria.
- MultiSport Card: 50% coverage of a monthly sports card in a wide network of sports facilities in Bulgaria.
- Financial Planning: Programs like Origin Financial to help plan for financial future and success.
- Commuter Benefits: Access to commuter benefits to help save money on daily commutes.
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.