Principal Security Engineer, Emerging Technology - Remote Eligible

The Crown Is Yours

As a Principal Security Engineer, you'll shape how DraftKings uses emerging technology securely and responsibly. You'll work at the highest strategic level, partnering with engineering, product, and research teams to build secure, scalable systems that power our platforms. You'll apply deep technical expertise to evaluate and influence the security of new tools, workflows, and architectures. With a cross-disciplinary team at your side, you'll lead by example designing smarter automation, scaling secure infrastructure, and mentoring peers through complex challenges.

What You'll Do As A Principal Security Engineer

• Lead large-scale security reviews of new capabilities at DraftKings with your deep experience building and deploying code and systems leading the way

• Design, build and implement tools to support the safe use of new technology, such as proxies that help implement security functionality or modify existing systems to make them safer.

• Spearhead the automation of security processes, reducing the time to deploy across the entire engineering organization.

• Drive remediation efforts of complex, cross-functional security issues.

• Apply subject matter expertise to identify potential security issues, tools, mitigations and processes, staying current with the evolving security landscape and sharing expertise with others through coaching.

• Collaborate across a range of technical and non-technical contributors, providing insights on security designs that balance usability and safety.

• Share knowledge and provide guidance to team members, fostering a culture of continuous learning and collaboration.

What You'll Bring

• 8+ years experience in engineering, building and operating systems in production.

• 5+ years experience contributing and advising on security design.

• Experience writing high quality code in a typed and untyped programming language.

• A constructive attitude to help others raise the bar.

• Varied knowledge across system fundamentals, how multiple operating systems and file systems work, networking and common protocols, public cloud security, and automation.

• An understanding of how organizations use AI foundation models and how to reason about safely using AI in business contexts.

• Empathy, strong communication skills and a deep respect for the power of collaboration.

• Ability to manage competing priorities and thrive in a fast-paced, dynamic environment.

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.