Site Reliability Engineer

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 and turn any question about the future into a financial asset. Kalshi fought for years and legalized prediction markets in the US for the first time in history. Kalshi is currently the fastest growing financial market in America, and has thousands of markets across politics, economics, financials, weather, tech, AI, culture and 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 it’s beautiful and deeply fulfilling. Our culture is simple: we hire really talented people, work really hard, and enjoy the climb. We are looking for ambitious and 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). 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 lot of it (including entire systems) can be yours.

What you’ll do

Improve observability, reliability and availability by defining and measuring key metrics

Build automation and improve systems to eliminate toil and operations work.

Collaborate with our core infrastructure team to performance tune and optimize our cloud deployments. (Think Docker, Terraform, Kubernetes, EC2, etc.)

Collaborate with Coinbase product teams to reduce service disruptions and automate incident response

Proactively find and analyze reliability problems across our business units and stack, then design and implement software to create step-function improvements.

Educate, mentor and hold accountable the engineering team to improve the reliability of our systems and make reliability a core value of the Coinbase engineering culture.

Write high quality, well tested code to meet the needs of your customers.

Debugging extremely difficult technical problems, and making systems and products both work better and are easier to deploy, own, operate and diagnose.

Review all feature designs within your product area and across the company for cross-cutting projects.

Be an owner of the security, safety, scale, operational integrity, and architectural clarity of these designs.

Build pipelines to integrate with 3rd party vendors

Participate in an on-call support rotation to provide timely troubleshooting and resolution of urgent issues.

What we’re looking for

Attributes

• You have at least 5+ years of experience in software engineering.
• You’ve designed, built, scaled and maintained production services, and know how to compose a service oriented architecture.
• You write high quality, well tested code to meet the needs of your customers.
• You’re passionate about building an open financial system that brings the world together.
• You possess strong technical skills for system design and coding
• Excellent written and verbal communication skills, and a bias toward open, transparent cultural practices.
• Strong skills around observability, debugging and performance tuning
• Strong communication skills and ability to explain technical concepts clearly and simply
• Strong interpersonal skills working with Engineers from junior to principal levels
• Demonstrated critical thinking under pressure
• A willingness to dive into understanding, debugging, and improving any layer of the stack
• This role requires on-call availability to ensure swift resolution of issues outside regular business hours.

Bonus points

• Experience designing and building reliable systems capable of handling high throughput and low latency
• Experience with obser