Senior Security Engineer
DraftKings is hiring a Senior Security Engineer to strengthen the security of the IT systems that the workforce relies on every day. The role involves building and improving security tooling, automating workflows, and investigating threats to keep environments secure, responsive, and resilient.
Working with security analysts, engineers, and technical system owners, the successful candidate will turn findings into stronger protections and shape the security improvements that are prioritised next.
The role requires the ability to mentor junior team members and foster a collaborative environment where knowledge is shared and learned from one another.
- Build tooling and processes that protect the workforce’s IT systems, with a focus on endpoint detection and response (EDR), data loss prevention (DLP), and email security.
- Maintain and improve security tools, using automation, quality assurance processes, and feedback loops to improve effectiveness and reduce manual work.
- Partner with security analysts, security engineers, and technical system owners to understand differences between expected and actual system behaviour.
- Shape the Enterprise Security roadmap in partnership with your manager and peers, balancing business needs with operational improvements to establish what is prioritised next and why.
- Conduct targeted threat hunting to identify security threats, deepen understanding of the environment, and develop detections and automation based on findings.
- Mentor junior team members and foster a collaborative environment where knowledge is shared and learned from one another.
- At least 5 years of experience in information security, developing technology and processes that improve the coverage and effectiveness of security tooling across corporate IT and complex platform environments (required).
- Experience with some combination of mobile device management (MDM), EDR, DLP, and cloud security tooling (required).
- Broad knowledge of operating systems, file systems, networking, common protocols, public cloud security, and automation, including how to secure the systems and environments supported (required).
- The ability to communicate complex security concepts to diverse stakeholders and deliver clear, actionable recommendations (required).
- Experience managing complex changes in larger organisations, including developing and executing communication and implementation plans (required).
- Flexibility to participate in periodic off-hours escalation rotations with the team (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 and workplace lactation support.
- Family planning support for adoption, surrogacy, fertility treatments, or other family planning needs.
- 25 vacation days per year.
- 200 BGN food vouchers per month.
- 50% coverage of a monthly MultiSport card.
- Financial planning programmes through Origin Financial.
- Commuter benefits.
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.
