DraftKings Inc.
Defining what it means to build and deliver the most extraordinary sports & entertainment experiences.The Crown is Yours
Lead Site Reliability Engineer
DevOps EngineerDevOps EngineerFull TimeRemoteTeam 1,001-5,000Since 2012H1B No SponsorCompany SiteLinkedIn
Location
United States
Posted
16 days ago
Salary
$148K - $185K / year
Bachelor Degree6 yrs expEnglishAnsibleAWSChefCloudDockerElixirGoogle Cloud PlatformIo TJavaKubernetesLinuxPythonRubyTerraformGo.net
Job Description
• Lead SRE initiatives across multiple projects and products, collaborating with cross-functional teams to shape platform and infrastructure engineering efforts across the organization.
• Drive technical excellence by mentoring and guiding engineers, fostering a culture of continuous learning and innovation.
• Architect and automate self-healing, fault-tolerant infrastructure with declarative configurations, GitOps, and event-driven automation for scalable deployments across public clouds and on-premise.
• Design, develop, and maintain software-driven infrastructure automation to build internal tools and eliminate repetitive operational tasks.
• Own and drive decisions on product deployment, performance tuning, monitoring, and alerting to ensure high availability and system efficiency in production.
• Define key metrics and SLAs around new web services being created to support our rapid traffic growth.
• Design and implement monitoring and alerting strategies to enforce application SLAs.
Job Requirements
- At least 6 years of experience managing distributed cloud environments (GCP, AWS, vSphere, Nutanix) and platform automation at scale.
- Deep expertise in container orchestration (Kubernetes) and container runtimes (Docker, containers), with the ability to design, scale, and troubleshoot complex workloads.
- Expert-level understanding of networking and web concepts, with the ability to debug issues down to the packet level.
- Strong experience developing software for automation and infrastructure tooling (Go, Python).
- Strong understanding of Linux-based operating systems, including performance tuning, bootloaders, storage, partitioning, kernel debugging, and low-level system optimizations.
- Experience with Infrastructure as Code (IaC) and configuration management tools (Terraform, Ansible, Chef, etc.), ensuring scalable and repeatable infrastructure provisioning.
- Understanding of applications written in various programming languages (C#/.NET, Java, Elixir, Ruby, etc).
- Experience in AWS Greengrass IoT management and A/B booting.
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