DraftKings Inc. is a publicly traded technology company headquartered in Boston, focused on innovation and AI in enhancing customer experiences. As a Senior Data Engineer, Platform, you will contribute to the data team's mission by leveraging your technical expertise to enhance and build out the data platform while informing business decisions and defining best practices.
Responsibilities:
- Demonstrate leadership and ownership of the platform to deliver services for projects and users
- Provide infrastructure guidance of data platform capabilities to accommodate business/technical use cases
- Leverage your strong communication skills to keep users informed and provide excellent quality of service
- Automate and manage provisioning needs, such as Snowflake storage and compute, Role Based Access Control model, and permissions
- Configure and manage monitoring/alerting around replication latency, performance (cluster & query), and Airflow
- Coordinate and collaborate with dependent infrastructure and AWS services to implement Snowflake integration with services, such as S3, IAM, SSO, etc
- Provide technical expertise, troubleshooting, and support for change management, governance compliance, internal audits, and remediations
Requirements:
- A proven track record of administration, engineering, and operationalizing the Snowflake, Databricks or similar Cloud Data Platform
- Experience working in AWS, Terraform, CloudFormation, Python, and database replication tools/services (e.g., AWS DMS)
- Experience working with CI/CD pipelines and deployment automation
- Experience with a variety of data logging/monitoring tools, such as DataDog
- Strong experience with SQL and knowledge in a variety of data engines (for example, SQL Server, MySQL, Amazon Aurora, Redshift) is a big plus
- Experience writing software (preferably with Python)