Infrastructure Engineer

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We’re building a next-generation financial ecosystem — think NYSE or CME, rebuilt from scratch. As an Infrastructure Engineer at Kalshi, you’ll help design, build, and scale the systems that power our exchange, clearinghouse, API infrastructure, broker and market-maker connectivity, and more.

We are a small engineering team, which means your responsibilities scale rapidly and your impact is clear, visible, and foundational. Much of our infrastructure is still greenfield, and entire systems can be yours to design and own. You’ll work across the full infrastructure and DevOps stack to ensure reliability, speed, and robustness for one of the most ambitious financial platforms ever built.

What You’ll Do

• Build and standardize infrastructure for how software is built, versioned, tested, and deployed
• Automate testing frameworks across the entire testing pyramid (unit, API, integration)
• Architect large-scale systems with sound tradeoffs for performance, risk, and long-term maintainability
• Develop and maintain infrastructure for high-performance data feeds and trading APIs
• Support clearing systems with high availability and strict guarantees, including margining, collateral management, and banking integrations
• Stress-test and harden critical systems for robustness and scalability
• Ship fast and with high quality
• Make autonomous technical decisions — we offer flexibility, not hand-holding
• Contribute to shaping Kalshi’s engineering culture as the company grows

What You Bring

Required:

• 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
• Security: certifications such as CISSP or CISM

Bonus Points:

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

NYC Pay Transparency Disclosure

Salary Range: $100,000–$250,000 annually, plus equity and benefits.

This range reflects current market data for this role. Kalshi has minimal hierarchy and wide variance in experience levels within each title; if your compensation expectations exceed these bands, we encourage you to reach out — we’re always happy to discuss.