Infrastructure Engineer

The role

You will design, build, and scale systems for a financial exchange, including clearinghouse, API infrastructure, and broker connectivity. You will work across the full infrastructure and DevOps stack to ensure reliability and speed.

What you will do

• Build and standardize infrastructure for software building, versioning, testing, and deployment
• Automate testing frameworks across the entire testing pyramid
• Architect large-scale systems for performance, risk, and maintainability
• Develop and maintain infrastructure for high-performance data feeds and trading APIs
• Support clearing systems with high availability and strict guarantees
• Stress-test and harden critical systems for robustness and scalability
• Ship fast and with high quality
• Make autonomous technical decisions
• Contribute to shaping Kalshi's engineering culture

Required qualifications

• 3+ years of professional software engineering experience
• Strong technical fundamentals and comfort tackling complex engineering problems
• Excellent communication skills and a strong desire to learn
• Deep familiarity with AWS, Kubernetes, Terraform, RDS, Kafka, load balancing, etc.
• Experience creating or implementing processes and tooling that improve engineering efficiency
• Demonstrated ability to plan and drive large projects with long-term impact
• Excellent judgment and prioritization skills
• Growth mindset, high slope, and eagerness to learn
• Craftsmanship: you care deeply about quality and outcomes
• Ability to ship extremely quickly
• Strong experience in one or more of: Networking: debugging and resolving complex networking issues
• Strong experience in one or more of: Security: certifications such as CISSP or CISM

Nice to have

• Experience building deployment systems in Kubernetes
• Experience designing dev/test environments in Kubernetes
• Experience building dynamic configuration systems

Benefits

• equity
• benefits

About the company

Kalshi is a prediction market company that allows people to trade on the outcome of any events. The company aims to build the largest financial market on the planet.