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Your work will strengthen our foundation today while enabling us to move faster and smarter tomorrow.\nWhat You'll Do\nDefine and evolve architectural solutions that improve system performance, scalability, reliability, and operational excellence.\nDesign and refine frameworks, tooling, and engineering standards that enhance system resilience and long-term maintainability.\nPartner closely with Product, Infrastructure, and Platform teams to embed sound architectural principles into planning, design, and delivery.\nContribute hands-on to critical initiatives, including prototypes, proof-of-concepts, and production systems that demonstrate scalable, maintainable design.\nGuide teams in adopting robust distributed system patterns, ensuring fault tolerance, observability, and operational maturity are built in from day one.\nProvide thoughtful design reviews and technical guidance that raise the bar for engineering quality and consistency.\nCollaborate with engineering leaders to align architectural decisions with business priorities and long-term platform strategy.\n What You'll Bring\nBachelor's degree in Computer Science or a related field, or an equivalent combination of education, experience, and training.\nAt least 8 years of professional software engineering experience, including significant experience designing and evolving large-scale distributed systems in production environments.\nProven experience owning architectural components of high-availability, mission-critical platforms.\nStrong expertise in scalable design patterns, performance optimization, reliability engineering, and modern cloud-based architectures.\nProficiency with modern development practices, including continuous integration and delivery, infrastructure as code, and observability tooling.\nExperience collaborating across teams to deliver cross-functional technical initiatives that improve system stability, scalability, or efficiency.\nClear, structured communication skills with the ability to document architectural decisions and influence both technical and non-technical stakeholders.\nA passion for mentoring engineers, providing actionable design feedback, and continuously improving engineering standards.\nJoin Our Team\nWe’re a publicly traded (NASDAQ: DKNG) technology company headquartered in Boston. 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