Infrastructure Engineer
Description For Infrastructure Engineer
Kalshi is revolutionizing the financial market landscape by creating the first-ever legal prediction markets platform in the US. As the fastest-growing financial market in America, Kalshi enables trading on outcomes across various sectors including politics, economics, weather, tech, and AI.
As an Infrastructure Engineer at Kalshi, you'll be part of building a next-generation financial ecosystem comparable to NYSE or CME from the ground up. The role offers unique opportunities to work on core exchange systems, clearinghouse operations, API infrastructure, and broker connectivity. Being part of a small team means your contributions will have significant visibility and impact.
The position requires expertise in infrastructure and DevOps, focusing on building and scaling critical systems. You'll be responsible for implementing automation frameworks, designing large-scale systems, maintaining high-performance trading infrastructure, and ensuring robust security measures. The ideal candidate brings 3+ years of experience with strong knowledge of AWS, Kubernetes, and modern DevOps tools.
Kalshi offers a competitive compensation package ranging from $100,000 to $250,000 annually, plus equity. The company culture emphasizes meritocracy, ownership, and a deep commitment to craft. As a Kalshian, you'll be trusted from day one and have the opportunity to shape the future of financial markets while working on challenging and impactful projects.
Responsibilities For Infrastructure Engineer
- Provide infrastructure for automated software building, versioning and deployment
- Implement automation for test development and execution across testing pyramid
- Design large-scale systems with appropriate risk and maintainability trade-offs
- Develop and maintain infrastructure for high-performance data feeds and trading APIs
- Maintain high-availability clearing systems including margining and banking integrations
- Stress test critical systems
- Ship fast with high quality
- Make independent decisions
Requirements For Infrastructure Engineer
- 3+ years of software engineering experience
- Strong communication skills and willingness to learn
- Strong technical ability to solve complex engineering problems
- Strong familiarity with AWS, Kubernetes, Terraform, RDS, Kafka, load balancing
- Experience with creating and implementing processes to increase engineering efficiency
- Leadership experience in planning large-scale projects
- Excellent judgment on task prioritization
- Growth mindset
- Experience in networking or security certifications (CISSP, CISM)
Benefits For Infrastructure Engineer
- Equity
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