Director of Engineering, Performance & Chaos

We're defining what it means to build and deliver the most extraordinary sports and entertainment experiences. Our global team is trailblazing new markets, developing cutting-edge products, and shaping the future of responsible gaming.
Here, "impossible" isn't part of our vocabulary. You'll face some of the toughest but most rewarding challenges of your career. They're worth it. Channeling your inner grit will accelerate your growth, help us win as a team, and create unforgettable moments for our customers.
The Crown Is Yours
As a Director of Engineering within the Engineering Excellence's Performance & Chaos Engineering team, you will play a pivotal leadership role focused on enhancing system resilience and performance across the organization. You will spearhead the strategic implementation of chaos engineering practices, helping to proactively identify and mitigate system vulnerabilities. By leveraging fault injection, observability tools, and resilience testing, you will ensure the infrastructure remains highly available, scalable, and aligned with service-level agreements. You will collaborate with SRE, Architecture, and Incident Management to embed performance testing best practices and resilience strategies into the development lifecycle.
What you'll do as a Director of Engineering

• Lead the adoption and execution of chaos engineering practices to identify weaknesses, validate reliability, and improve systems proactively.
• Foster a culture of innovation, collaboration, accountability, and inclusion within the engineering organization.
• Lead, mentor, and manage an engineering team, providing strategic direction and career development.
• Manage infrastructure using AWS, GCP, and modern cloud computing practices.
• Using a combination of testing, fault injection, and observability tools, ensure systems are resilient and meet SLAs.
• Implement resilience engineering principles to reduce downtime and maintain high availability across services.
• Partner with Site Reliability, Architecture, Problem & Incident Management, and other stakeholders to drive performance testing best practice adoption.
• Establish and track key performance metrics to measure team output and system performance.

What skills you'll bring

• 8+ years of experience in software engineering, with 5+ years in engineering leadership roles.
• Proven experience in managing and scaling engineering teams in fast-paced, high-growth environments.
• Proven background in chaos engineering, testing strategies, and operational excellence.
• Strong communication skills and proven ability to collaborate effectively with partners across various departments.
• Expertise with chaos engineering platforms, Chaos Mesh and Gremlin is highly desired.
• Familiarity with microservices architecture, CI/CD pipelines, and DevOps practices.

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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.