About the job
About Kalshi
Kalshi is pioneering a new frontier in finance with its unique prediction markets platform, empowering individuals to trade on the outcomes of various events and transform any future question into a financial opportunity. We have worked diligently to legalize prediction markets in the United States, making history as the fastest-growing financial market in the country, with a diverse range of markets spanning politics, economics, finance, weather, technology, AI, culture, and beyond.
At Kalshi, we envision a future where prediction markets emerge as the largest financial marketplace globally, enabling everyone to turn their insights into financial positions.
Our Vision: To construct the largest financial market on Earth.
Our Mission: To foster greater truth in the world through the power of markets.
Our culture thrives on attracting top-tier talent, embracing hard work, and celebrating our collective journey. We are on the lookout for exceptional and driven individuals to join our compact team as we build the future of financial markets.
Your Role
As a key member of Kalshi's engineering team, you will play a crucial role in developing the next-generation financial ecosystem, akin to establishing a new NYSE or CME from the ground up. In our agile and dynamic environment, your responsibilities will quickly expand, and the impact of your work will be highly visible. Much of our infrastructure is still in its early stages, giving you the opportunity to design, own, and evolve entire systems.
Key Responsibilities
Enhance observability, reliability, and service availability by defining and measuring critical metrics.
Develop automation and systems to eliminate toil and lessen operational burdens.
Work collaboratively with core infrastructure engineers to optimize cloud deployments (Docker, Terraform, Kubernetes, EC2, etc.).
Partner with product teams to minimize service disruptions and automate incident response.
Identify and analyze reliability issues across the stack, implementing software solutions for substantial, long-term improvements.
Mentor engineers and cultivate a culture where reliability is a fundamental engineering principle.
Produce high-quality, thoroughly tested code that meets both internal and external customer requirements.
Troubleshoot complex technical challenges to enhance system usability, operability, and diagnosability.

