# Site Reliability Engineer

**Company:** [Kalshi](https://hotfix.jobs/companies/kalshi)
**Location:** New York, NY
**Role:** DevOps / SRE
**Salary:** $100k – $250k/yr
**Experience:** 4+ years
**Skills:** Kubernetes, Docker, Terraform, Datadog, AWS, GCP, Azure, Rust, Go, EC2
**Posted:** 2025-12-04

> Site Reliability Engineer enhances system observability, reliability, and availability at a prediction markets platform. Builds automation, optimizes cloud infrastructure (Kubernetes, Docker, Terraform), debugs issues, and participates in on-call rotations. Requires 4+ years software engineering experience.

## Job Description

## What You’ll Do
- Improve observability, reliability, and service availability by defining and measuring key metrics
- Build automation and systems that eliminate toil and reduce operational burden
- Collaborate with core infrastructure engineers to performance-tune and optimize cloud deployments (**Docker**, **Terraform**, **Kubernetes**, **EC2**, etc.)
- Partner with product teams to minimize service disruptions and automate incident response
- Identify and analyze reliability problems across the stack, designing and implementing software for significant, long-term improvements
- Mentor engineers and drive a culture where reliability is a core engineering value
- Write high-quality, well-tested code that supports internal and external customer needs
- Debug complex technical issues and improve system usability, operability, and diagnosability
- Review feature designs across the company and ensure security, safety, scalability, and architectural clarity
- Build and maintain integrations with third-party vendors
- Participate in on-call rotations to troubleshoot and resolve urgent issues

## What You Bring
- 4+ years of software engineering experience
- Experience designing, building, scaling, and maintaining production services and service-oriented architectures
- Strong system design, coding, debugging, performance-tuning, and observability skills
- High-quality coding practices with strong testing discipline
- Excellent written and verbal communication; comfort working transparently across teams
- Strong interpersonal skills across junior-to-principal engineering levels
- Ability to think clearly under pressure and dive into any layer of the stack
- Passion for building an open financial system that connects the world
- Willingness to participate in on-call rotations and swiftly resolve issues

**Bonus Points:**
- Experience designing highly reliable, high-throughput, low-latency systems
- Experience with **Datadog**
- Experience with **Rust**, **Go**, and **Terraform**
- Experience with **AWS**, **GCP**, or **Azure**
- Experience operating in regulated environments
- Experience writing training materials or company-facing engineering content

## NYC Pay Transparency
**Salary:** $100,000–$250,000 annually, plus equity and benefits.

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