Underdog Fantasy is hiring a
Director of Data Engineering in Worldwide

Summary

The job description is for a Director of Data Engineering position at Underdog, a fast-growing sports gaming company. The role involves leading the Data Engineering team, building new data infrastructure, and machine learning solutions. The compensation range is between $215,000 and $320,000, plus equity.

Requirements

• 4+ years of experience as a proven leader of data engineering organizations
• 3+ years of experience architecting data systems that incorporate: batch processing and real time data streaming, secure cloud architecture in AWS/Azure/Google Cloud, RESTful APIs and microservices, monitoring, alerting, and logging mechanisms, containerization and orchestration with tools such as Docker, Kubernetes, or ECS, and DevOps practices such as CI/CD pipelines and infrastructure-as-code tools
• 3+ years of experience building data ecosystems that incorporate machine learning
• 7+ years of experience and strong technical expertise with: data ingestion (Kinesis, Datastream), data streaming (Kafka, Flink, Kinesis), data transformation (dbt), orchestration (Airflow), reporting (Looker, Tableau, Sigma), MLOps (Sagemaker, Databricks, Tecton)

Responsibilities

• Grow, shape, and lead Underdog’s Data Engineering team as it executes on mission critical business goals
• Work closely with cross functional stakeholders across multiple departments
• Build new, scalable data infrastructure and compile machine learning solutions that will drive essential business decisions

Preferred Qualifications

• Experience with fantasy sports or sports betting
• A strong background in machine learning

Benefits

• Unlimited PTO for salaried employees (we're extremely flexible with the exception of the first few weeks before & into the NFL season)
• 16 weeks of fully paid parental leave
• A $500 home office allowance
• A connected virtual first culture with a highly engaged distributed workforce
• 5% 401k match, FSA, company paid health, dental, vision plan options for employees and dependents