Remote Infrastructure Network Engineer

Summary

Join Kalshi, a federally regulated exchange where people can trade on any event, as an Infra Engineer to help build and scale the infrastructure layer and DevOps. You will work on various platforms, including core exchange, clearinghouse, API infrastructure, and others.

Requirements

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

Responsibilities

• 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

Preferred Qualifications

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