Senior Machine Learning Engineer
As a Senior Machine Learning Engineer, you’ll design, implement, and scale production-grade data and machine learning pipelines that drive measurable business outcomes. You’ll partner closely with data scientists, engineers, and product managers to build systems that are well-structured, observable, and scalable. The Fintech Data Science team builds and maintains systems that protect DraftKings and its customers from fraud, payment risk, and abuse. Our mission is to enable explainable and reliable decision-making across all financial and operational flows - from registration and deposits, to gameplay and withdrawals.
- Design, build, and maintain ETL and feature engineering pipelines that power risk and payment applications.
- Develop production ML systems, from training and evaluation through deployment and monitoring.
- Partner with data scientists to productionize models that integrate into DK’s decisioning systems.
- Build reliable, well-tested data workflows - from SQL-based feature transformations through model training and deployment.
- Establish observability and monitoring for data quality, model drift, and service reliability.
- Participate in code reviews, design discussions, and incident response, helping to maintain strong engineering practices.
- Mentor junior engineers and contribute to shared tooling, documentation, and process improvements across the DS organization.
- Support on-call rotations and post-incident reviews to ensure continuous system improvement.
- 3+ years of experience writing production Python applications and working with structured data (SQL and data modeling) (required).
- Strong software engineering fundamentals - object-oriented design, testing, and version control (required).
- Familiarity with ML Ops frameworks such as model registry, orchestrations, and feature stores (required).
- Experience building or maintaining data and feature pipelines in a data-heavy environment (required).
- Understanding of the ML lifecycle, including feature engineering, training, and model serving (required).
- Ability to debug production issues across data, model, and infrastructure layers (required).
- Strong collaboration and communication skills; able to translate technical solutions into operational outcomes (required).
- Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Machine Learning, or a related technical field (required).
- Master’s degree (preferred).
- The US base salary range for this full-time position is 134,400.00 USD - 168,000.00 USD, plus bonus, equity, and benefits as applicable.
- Comprehensive health benefits, including various medical plans, dental, and vision.
- Wellbeing Program with free access to programs such as free therapy sessions with Lyra Mental Health Solution, Lyra Employee Assistance Program, the Calm App, Virtual Yoga Classes, and many more.
- Parental Leave & Support: 14 weeks of 100% paid parental leave to all global team members and offer workplace lactation support. Additionally, partner with Care.com, a care finder and backup childcare partner for our U.S. employees.
- Family Planning: Offer a range of benefits that support family planning, including adoption, surrogacy, fertility treatments, or other family planning.
- Flexible PTO.
- Pet Insurance.
- Gym Reimbursement.
- Financial Planning: From 401(k) matching to programs such as Origin Financial.
- Commuter Benefits.
- Tuition Reimbursement Program.
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.
