Kalshi is defining a new category

Kalshi has defined a new category: prediction markets. Kalshi allows people to trade on the outcome of any events & turn any question about the future into a financial asset. Kalshi fought for years & legalized prediction markets in the US for the first time in history. Kalshi is currently the fastest growing financial market in America, & has thousands of markets across politics, economics, financials, weather, tech, AI, culture & more.

We believe prediction markets have the potential to be the largest financial market because they turn anything into a financial position. 

• Our vision: well build the largest financial market on the planet. 
• Our mission: bring more truth to the world through the power of markets. 

Building a new category is hard like really hard. But its beautiful & deeply fulfilling. Our culture is simple: we hire really talented people, work really hard, & enjoy the climb. We are looking for ambitious & exceptional people to join our (relatively small) team to help us build the next generation of financial markets.

Role Roadmap

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 & market makers, & others. We are a small team, which means your responsibilities scale very rapidly, & your contributions are clear & visible, not marginal. There is still a lot of green field at Kalshi & a low of it (including entire systems) can be yours. As an infra engineer, you will help build & scale all things on the infrastructure layer & DevOps at Kalshi. 

Some of your responsibilities include; 

• Provide the infrastructure to automate & standardize how software is built, versioned & deployed to target environments
• Provide infrastructure & tooling to automate test development & execution up & down the testing pyramid, including unit, API, & integration testing
• Design large-scale systems, making the right tradeoffs for risk & long-term maintainability.
• Help develop & maintain the infrastructure for high-performance data feeds & trading APIs for clients.
• High guarantee & availability clearing systems, including margining, collateral management, & banking integrations
• Stress test large-scale critical systems to ensure their robustness & maintainability
• Ship fast & with high quality
• Make decisions: we give a lot of flexibility, which also means no spoon-feeding.

The company is launched & growing, which means your role will evolve & grow with the company. Joining Kalshi means youll be exposed to all parts of the business & define our culture. 

About you

• 3+ years of software engineering experience.
• Strong aspiration to learn & communication skills.
• Strong technical grasp & ability to tackle complex engineering problems that deliver results. 
• Strong familiarity with AWS, k8s, terraform, RDS, Kafka, load balancing, etc.
• History of creating & applying new processes & tooling to increase engineering efficiency.
• Lead with experience planning & driving large projects with long-term impact on a single system or team.
• Excellent judgment on task prioritizations
• Growth mindset, with a high slope & eagerness to lean
• Love of the craft: you genuinely care & put your all into your work
• Can ship at incredible speed (very simple)
• Have strong experience or knowledge in either of the following areas:
• Networking: demonstrated experience in debugging networking issues.
• Security: have certificates like CISSP, CISM

Bonus points

• Proven experience building deployment systems in k8s.
• Proven experience building dev/test environments in k8s.
• Proven experience building dynamic configuration systems. 

NYC Pay Transparency Disclosure:

Salary Range: $100,000 to $250,000 annually plus equity & benefits.

This salary range is based on the current available market data & represents the expected salary range for this role. Kalshi has minimal hierarchy & few titles but broad ranges of experience represented within roles. Should you have compensation expectations that exceed these bands, we'd love to hear from you & would welcome you to reach out to discuss further.

Our Culture

Meritocracy is at our core, & we value people who take ownership & figure (usually hard) things out. We dream big. We love our craft deeply & are proud of what we put out in the world. We are committed to our vision of building something big but also useful: a product that brings more truth through the power of markets.

Kalshians are Kalshis most important asset: we pick Kalshians carefully, so we trust them fully on day 1.