Site Reliability Engineer at Kalshi

New York, New York, United States

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Not SpecifiedCompensation
Mid-level (3 to 4 years), Senior (5 to 8 years)Experience Level
Full TimeJob Type
UnknownVisa
FinTech, FinanceIndustries

Requirements

  • At least 5+ years of experience in software engineering
  • Designed, built, scaled, and maintained production services, and know how to compose a service-oriented architecture
  • Write high quality, well-tested code to meet the needs of your customers
  • Passionate about building an open financial system that brings the world together
  • 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
  • On-call availability to ensure swift resolution of issues outside regular business hours
  • (Bonus) Experience designing and building reliable systems capable of h

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 (e.g., Docker, Terraform, Kubernetes, EC2)
  • 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
  • Debug extremely difficult technical problems, and make systems and products both work better and 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

Skills

Docker
Terraform
Kubernetes
EC2
Observability
Automation
Incident Response
Performance Tuning
Reliability Engineering
Cloud Infrastructure

Kalshi

Regulated exchange for event contracts trading

About Kalshi

Kalshi operates as a regulated exchange where traders can speculate on the outcomes of various events through a unique product called 'event contracts.' These contracts allow investors to bet on whether specific future events will happen, such as changes in Covid-19 statistics or legislative decisions in Congress. The platform expands the traditional futures market by addressing new economic risks, making it accessible to both individual investors and institutional traders who want to hedge or speculate on significant events. Kalshi earns revenue by charging transaction fees on trades made on its platform. What sets Kalshi apart from its competitors is its regulatory approval from the Commodity Futures Trading Commission (CFTC), which allows it to offer this new asset class in a compliant manner.

New York City, New YorkHeadquarters
2019Year Founded
$29.3MTotal Funding
DEBTCompany Stage
Fintech, Financial ServicesIndustries
201-500Employees

Benefits

Company Equity

Risks

Emerging competitors like Polymarket could draw users away from Kalshi.
Legal challenges may arise over event contracts being seen as gambling.
Volatility in political events could lead to financial losses for Kalshi's users.

Differentiation

Kalshi is the first US federally regulated exchange for event contracts.
Kalshi offers unique exposure to specific events, unlike traditional stocks or bonds.
Kalshi's platform is backed by prominent investors like Sequoia and Charles Schwab.

Upsides

Growing interest in event-driven trading boosts Kalshi's market potential.
Advancements in AI enhance prediction accuracy on Kalshi's platform.
Increased regulatory clarity encourages more financial institutions to use Kalshi.

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