Sports Operations Engineer

The role

You will build and maintain automation systems for sports market infrastructure. This includes designing Python scripts, data pipelines, and orchestration workflows for various sports leagues.

What you will do

• Design and build Python automation scripts to list and update sports markets.
• Build data pipelines to ingest and process large volumes of sports data.
• Implement and maintain complex DAGs for orchestrating market operations workflows.
• Develop and maintain cron jobs and scheduled tasks.
• Own and evolve internal tools used by the Market Operations team.
• Translate complex sports rules and edge cases into code.
• Create systems that process live game feeds and trigger real-time market actions.
• Develop automated settlement systems based on official results.
• Continuously improve system performance and scale infrastructure.
• Collaborate with Product, Contracts, and Engineering teams to integrate systems.

Required qualifications

• Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Data Science, or related technical field.
• 1-3 years of experience as a software engineer building production systems.
• Strong proficiency in Python and JavaScript.
• Experience with DAG frameworks (Airflow, Prefect, Dagster).
• Expertise with cron jobs and scheduled task management in production environments.
• Experience pulling, processing, and structuring large datasets from APIs, webhooks, and real-time data feeds.
• Ability to build automation and data pipelines that handle high-volume, time-sensitive operations.
• Track record of making continuous tooling improvements and building internal products.
• Product ownership mentality.
• Strong knowledge of sports and sports trading operations.
• Database expertise with both SQL and NoSQL systems.
• Experience with real-time systems including WebSockets, event streaming, and message queues.

Nice to have

• Experience with sports data providers

Benefits

• equity
• benefits

About the company

Kalshi has defined a new category of prediction markets. The company allows people to trade on the outcome of any events and turn questions about the future into financial assets.