Site Reliability Engineer

Responsibilities

• 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 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 Kalshi 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 integrations with 3rd party vendors.
• Participate in an on-call support rotation to provide timely troubleshooting and resolution of urgent issues.

Requirements

• Attributes:
• You have at least 4 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 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.
• On-call availability to ensure swift resolution of issues.
• Bonus points
• Experience designing and building reliable systems capable of handling high throughput and low latency.
• Experience with Datadog.
• Experience with Rust, Go and Terraform.
• Experience with AWS, GCP, or Azure.
• Experience working in a highly regulated environment.
• Experience writing company-facing blog posts and training materials.
• Our Culture
• Kalshians are Kalshi's most important asset: we pick Kalshians carefully, so we trust them fully on day 1.
• NYC Pay Transparency Disclosure:
• Salary Range: $100,000 to $250,000 annually plus equity and benefits.
• Commitment to Equal Opportunity

Benefits

Additional Information

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.

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