Infrastructure Engineer

We are building a next-generation financial ecosystem (think NYSE or CME from scratch)

As part of Kalshi, you will work on various platforms, including core exchange, clearinghouse, API infrastructure, connectivity to brokers and market makers, and others

We are a small team, which means your responsibilities scale very rapidly, and your contributions are clear and visible, not marginal

There is still a lot of green field at Kalshi and a low of it (including entire systems) can be yours

As an infra engineer, you will help build and scale all things on the infrastructure layer and DevOps at Kalshi

Provide the infrastructure to automate and standardize how software is built, versioned and deployed to target environments

Provide infrastructure and tooling to automate test development and execution up and down the testing pyramid, including unit, API, and integration testing

Design large-scale systems, making the right tradeoffs for risk and long-term maintainability

Help develop and maintain the infrastructure for high-performance data feeds and trading APIs for clients

High guarantee and availability clearing systems, including margining, collateral management, and banking integrations

Stress test large-scale critical systems to ensure their robustness and maintainability

Ship fast and with high quality

Make decisions: we give a lot of flexibility, which also means no spoon-feeding- Can ship at incredible speed (very simple)

Excellent judgment on task prioritizations

3+ years of software engineering experience

Networking: demonstrated experience in debugging networking issues

Growth mindset, with a high slope and eagerness to lean

Security: have certificates like CISSP, CISM

Strong familiarity with AWS, k8s, terraform, RDS, Kafka, load balancing, etc

Strong technical grasp and ability to tackle complex engineering problems that deliver results

Have strong experience or knowledge in either of the following areas:

Love of the craft: you genuinely care and put your all into your work

History of creating and applying new processes and tooling to increase engineering efficiency

Strong aspiration to learn and communication skills

Lead with experience planning and driving large projects with long-term impact on a single system or team

Proven experience building dev/test environments in k8s

Proven experience building deployment systems in k8s

Proven experience building dynamic configuration systems