Director of Data Engineering

• As the Director of Data Engineering, you will be instrumental in growing, shaping, and leading Underdog’s Data Engineering team as it executes on mission critical business goals.
• Your team will be a strategic partner to the business and will work closely with cross functional stakeholders across multiple departments.
• The role offers an unparalleled opportunity to build new, scalable data infrastructure and to compile machine learning solutions that will drive essential business decisions.
• You have the ability to scale and grow your team effectively, leveraging your strong leadership skills to manage team members and resources as the business expands.

• 4+ years of experience as a proven leader of data engineering organizations, having managed multiple direct reports including technical leaders, other people managers, and senior level individual contributors.
• 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).
• A builder by nature who is most at home creating new data ecosystems using industry best practices and leading edge technologies.
• You think like an architect (you build solutions that are supportable, minimize technical debt, comprehensive enough to meet most future needs yet flexible enough to adapt when necessary)

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

Our targeted compensation rate for this position is between $215,000 and $320,000, depending on experience, plus equity. Think your skills are exceptional and warrant higher pay? Apply anyway! If we agree, we're willing to negotiate.