Lead and operate the cloud data platform by building and automating infrastructure-as-code, provisioning Snowflake resources, configuring monitoring/alerting (Airflow, replication, performance), integrating Snowflake with AWS services, supporting governance/audits, and providing platform guidance and support across teams.
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The Crown Is Yours
As a Senior Data Engineer, Platform you will be a key contributor to a data team centered around the mission of providing a best-in-class experience for our products and customers. In this role, you'll be leveraging your technical expertise in all aspects of "Infrastructure as Code" (IaC) to enhance and build out our data platform. You will be working across teams, informing business decisions, helping to expand our platform, and define standards and best practices for platform use.
What you'll do as a Senior Data Engineer, Platform
What you'll bring:
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We're a publicly traded (NASDAQ: DKNG) technology company headquartered in Boston. As a regulated gaming company, you may be required to obtain a gaming license issued by the appropriate state agency as a condition of employment. Don't worry, we'll guide you through the process if this is relevant to your role.
If this job posting does not include compensation information, this is due to a technical error that our team is working to resolve! We will repost this position with compensation information as soon as it is resolved. It is unlawful in Massachusetts to require or administer a lie detector test as a condition of employment or continued employment. An employer who violates this law shall be subject to criminal penalties and civil liability.
The Crown Is Yours
As a Senior Data Engineer, Platform you will be a key contributor to a data team centered around the mission of providing a best-in-class experience for our products and customers. In this role, you'll be leveraging your technical expertise in all aspects of "Infrastructure as Code" (IaC) to enhance and build out our data platform. You will be working across teams, informing business decisions, helping to expand our platform, and define standards and best practices for platform use.
What you'll do as a Senior Data Engineer, Platform
- 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.
What you'll bring:
- 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)
Join Our Team
We're a publicly traded (NASDAQ: DKNG) technology company headquartered in Boston. As a regulated gaming company, you may be required to obtain a gaming license issued by the appropriate state agency as a condition of employment. Don't worry, we'll guide you through the process if this is relevant to your role.
If this job posting does not include compensation information, this is due to a technical error that our team is working to resolve! We will repost this position with compensation information as soon as it is resolved. It is unlawful in Massachusetts to require or administer a lie detector test as a condition of employment or continued employment. An employer who violates this law shall be subject to criminal penalties and civil liability.
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