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Infrastructure Engineer

Kalshi is a prediction markets platform that allows people to trade on the outcome of events, turning questions about the future into financial assets.
$100,000 - $250,000
DevOps
Mid-Level Software Engineer
Hybrid
3+ years of experience
Finance

Description For Infrastructure Engineer

Kalshi is revolutionizing the financial market landscape by pioneering prediction markets in the US. As the fastest-growing financial market in America, Kalshi enables trading on outcomes across politics, economics, weather, tech, AI, and culture. The Infrastructure Engineer role is crucial in building their next-generation financial ecosystem, including core exchange, clearinghouse, and API infrastructure. Working in a small team environment, you'll have significant impact and ownership over entire systems. The role involves designing and maintaining critical infrastructure, implementing automation for software deployment, and ensuring robust testing systems. You'll work with cutting-edge technologies like Kubernetes, AWS, and Kafka while helping scale a platform that's redefining financial markets. The position offers competitive compensation ($100,000-$250,000 plus equity) and the opportunity to work in a meritocratic culture where innovation and ownership are highly valued. Based in New York with a hybrid work arrangement, this role is perfect for engineers who want to make a significant impact in a rapidly growing fintech company.

Last updated 2 months ago

Responsibilities For Infrastructure Engineer

  • Provide infrastructure to automate and standardize software build, versioning and deployment
  • Provide infrastructure and tooling for automated test development and execution
  • Design large-scale systems with appropriate risk and maintainability tradeoffs
  • Develop and maintain infrastructure for high-performance data feeds and trading APIs
  • Maintain high-guarantee clearing systems including margining and banking integrations
  • Stress test large-scale critical systems
  • Ship fast and with high quality

Requirements For Infrastructure Engineer

Kubernetes
Redis
Kafka
  • 3+ years of software engineering experience
  • Strong technical grasp and problem-solving abilities
  • Strong familiarity with AWS, k8s, terraform, RDS, Kafka, load balancing
  • Experience in creating and applying processes to increase engineering efficiency
  • Experience planning and driving large projects
  • Excellent judgment on task prioritizations
  • Growth mindset and eagerness to learn
  • Experience in networking or security certifications (CISSP, CISM)

Benefits For Infrastructure Engineer

Equity
  • Equity
  • Benefits

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