Senior Database Engineer

PENN Entertainment, Inc. is North America’s leading provider of integrated entertainment, sports content, and casino gaming experiences.

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These state-of-the-art platforms are powered by proprietary in-house technology, a key component of PENN’s omnichannel gaming and entertainment strategy.

When you join PENN Entertainment’s digital team, you’ll not only work on these cutting-edge platforms through theScore and PENN Interactive, but you’ll also be part of a company that truly cares about your career growth.

We’re committed to supporting you as you expand your skills and explore new opportunities.

With locations throughout North America, you can build a future at PENN Entertainment wherever you are.

If you want to challenge conventions in gaming, media and entertainment, we want to talk to you.

About the Role & Team We are looking for a Senior Database Engineer to join our thriving Engineering team, to work cross-functionally across engineering, focusing on the architecture for optimal platform performance and be at the front lines, designing/administering databases, tackling database production issues and utilizing the latest and greatest cloud technologies. We’re looking for excited individuals who want to be immersed in our Cloud Native (K8) platforms. Using DevOps principles and orchestration with a focus on availability, reliability and durability.

About the Work

As a key As a key member of our Database Engineering team dealing with Site Reliability you will:

• Evaluate current database architectures and suggest improvements to maintain performance and availability
• Work within agile scrum & kanban to foster Engineering and support efforts
• Support the engineering organization by responding to database outages, helping triage, and remediating any database-related issues
• Support the engineering organization by evaluating database schemas, partitions, views and queries, implementing changes to increase database performance