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Kalshi
Infrastructure Engineer
Skills
KafkaAWSTerraform
2 months ago
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Important information
Contract type:
Permanent
Salary:
$100,000 – $250,000 / year
Location:
New York, NY, USA
Work mode:
Onsite
Published on:
29 August 2026
What they need
- 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 and market makers, and others
- We are a small team, which means your responsibilities scale very rapidly, and your contributions are clear and visible, not marginal
- There is still a lot of green field at Kalshi and a low of it (including entire systems) can be yours
- As an infra engineer, you will help build and scale all things on the infrastructure layer and DevOps at Kalshi
- Provide the infrastructure to automate and standardize how software is built, versioned and deployed to target environments
- Provide infrastructure and tooling to automate test development and execution up and down the testing pyramid, including unit, API, and integration testing
- Design large-scale systems, making the right tradeoffs for risk and long-term maintainability
- Help develop and maintain the infrastructure for high-performance data feeds and trading APIs for clients
- High guarantee and availability clearing systems, including margining, collateral management, and banking integrations
- Stress test large-scale critical systems to ensure their robustness and maintainability
- Ship fast and with high quality
- Make decisions: we give a lot of flexibility, which also means no spoon-feeding- Can ship at incredible speed (very simple)
- Excellent judgment on task prioritizations
- 3+ years of software engineering experience
- Networking: demonstrated experience in debugging networking issues
- Growth mindset, with a high slope and eagerness to lean
- Security: have certificates like CISSP, CISM
- Strong familiarity with AWS, k8s, terraform, RDS, Kafka, load balancing, etc
- Strong technical grasp and ability to tackle complex engineering problems that deliver results
- Have strong experience or knowledge in either of the following areas:
- Love of the craft: you genuinely care and put your all into your work
- History of creating and applying new processes and tooling to increase engineering efficiency
- Strong aspiration to learn and communication skills
- Lead with experience planning and driving large projects with long-term impact on a single system or team
- Proven experience building dev/test environments in k8s
- Proven experience building deployment systems in k8s
- Proven experience building dynamic configuration systems
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