# Infrastructure Engineer

**Company:** [Kalshi](https://hotfix.jobs/companies/kalshi)
**Location:** New York, NY
**Role:** DevOps / SRE
**Salary:** $100k – $250k/yr
**Experience:** 3+ years
**Skills:** AWS, Kubernetes, Terraform, Rds, Kafka, Load Balancing, Networking, Security, Cissp, Testing Frameworks
**Posted:** 2025-11-24

> Designs, builds, and scales infrastructure for a prediction market exchange including AWS, Kubernetes, high-performance APIs, and clearing systems. Requires 3+ years experience with strong fundamentals in cloud, containers, and DevOps tooling.

## Job Description

## 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
- Contribute to shaping engineering culture

## 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: 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 CISMB)

**Bonus Points:**
- Experience building deployment systems in Kubernetes
- Experience designing dev/test environments in Kubernetes
- Experience building dynamic configuration systems

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

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