10 months ago
Base Salary
$100k - $250k/yr
Responsibilities
- Build and standardize infrastructure for software versioning, testing, and deployment.
- Automate unit, API, and integration testing frameworks across the testing pyramid.
- Architect large-scale systems with tradeoffs across performance, risk, and maintainability.
- Develop and maintain infrastructure for high-performance data feeds and trading APIs.
- Support highly available clearing systems, including margining, collateral management, and banking integrations.
- Stress-test and harden critical systems for robustness and scalability.
- Make autonomous technical decisions and contribute to Kalshi’s engineering culture.
Requirements
- At least 3 years of professional software engineering experience.
- Strong technical fundamentals and the ability to tackle complex engineering problems.
- Deep familiarity with AWS, Kubernetes, Terraform, RDS, Kafka, and load balancing.
- Experience creating or implementing processes and tooling that improve engineering efficiency.
- Demonstrated ability to plan and drive large projects with long-term impact.
- Strong communication, judgment, prioritization, learning ability, and craftsmanship.
- Strong experience in networking, including debugging and resolving complex networking issues, or security, including certifications such as CISSP or CISM.
- Experience building deployment systems or dev/test environments in Kubernetes is a bonus.
- Experience building dynamic configuration systems is a bonus.
Benefits
- Equity and benefits are included.
- The role is based in New York City.
- The posting provides a salary range of $100,000–$250,000 annually.
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About Kalshi
Kalshi operates a CFTC‑regulated exchange where retail and professional traders buy and sell event contracts tied to economic, political, and other measurable outcomes. The company earns exchange and transaction fees from trading activity on its platform. Founded in 2019 and headquartered in New York, it is the first federally regulated U.S. exchange purpose‑built for event contracts.