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Job Description
<h2><strong>Role Roadmap</strong></h2>
<p>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.</p>
<p><strong>What you’ll do</strong></p>
<ul>
<li>Improve observability, reliability and availability by defining and measuring key metrics.</li>
<li>Build automation and improve systems to eliminate toil and operations work.</li>
<li>Collaborate with our core infrastructure team to performance tune and optimize our cloud deployments. (Think Docker, Terraform, Kubernetes, EC2, etc.)</li>
<li>Collaborate with product teams to reduce service disruptions and automate incident response.</li>
<li>Proactively find and analyze reliability problems across our business units and stack, then design and implement software to create step-function improvements.</li>
<li>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.</li>
<li>Write high quality, well tested code to meet the needs of your customers.</li>
<li>Debugging extremely difficult technical problems, and making systems and products both work better and are easier to deploy, own, operate and diagnose.</li>
<li>Review all feature designs within your product area and across the company for cross-cutting projects.</li>
<li>Be an owner of the security, safety, scale, operational integrity, and architectural clarity of these designs.</li>
<li>Build integrations with 3rd party vendors.</li>
<li>Participate in an on-call support rotation to provide timely troubleshooting and resolution of urgent issues.</li>
</ul>
<p><strong>What we’re looking for</strong></p>
<p><strong>Attributes:</strong></p>
<ul>
<li>You have at least 4 years of experience in software engineering.</li>
<li>You’ve designed, built, scaled and maintained production services, and know how to compose a service oriented architecture.</li>
<li>You write high quality, well tested code to meet the needs of your customers.</li>
<li>You’re passionate about building an open financial system that brings the world together.</li>
<li>You possess strong technical skills for system design and coding.</li>
<li>Excellent written and verbal communication skills, and a bias toward open, transparent cultural practices.</li>
<li>Strong skills around observability, debugging and performance tuning.</li>
<li>Strong interpersonal s