Site Reliability Engineer, Kalshi
$100-250k
+ Equity
3-4 days a week in office
Trading platform for future event outcomes
Be an early applicant
Trading platform for future event outcomes
21-100 employees
Be an early applicant
$100-250k
+ Equity
3-4 days a week in office
21-100 employees
Company mission
To allow people to capitalize on their opinions and hedge risks that relate to their everyday lives.
Role
Who you are
- You have at least 5+ 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 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
- This role requires on-call availability to ensure swift resolution of issues outside regular business hours
Desirable
- Experience designing and building reliable systems capable of handling high throughput and low latency
- Experience with observability and monitoring systems such as Kibana, Datadog, etc
- Familiarity with working in rapid growth environments
- Experience in Ruby, Go, and Terraform
- Experience with AWS, GCP, Azure, or other cloud environment
- Experience designing and building reliable systems
- Experience working in a highly regulated environment
- Experience writing company-facing blog posts and training materials
What the job involves
- 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
- 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 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
- 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 pipelines to integrate with 3rd party vendors
- Participate in an on-call support rotation to provide timely troubleshooting and resolution of urgent issues
Our take
Despite there being a broad choice of investment models, traders have not traditionally been able to invest in the outcomes of future events. Kalshi, as the first federally regulated exchange where users can invest, trade and essentially "bet" on future outcomes, sets out to change this.
The company has launched a unique asset class called "event contracts", where investors can buy simple yes or no contracts based on whether an event will happen or not. Since gaining federal regulation, Kalshi has begun adding expertise in key areas, hiring Google’s Phil Bogle as Director of Engineering and former Nadex CEO Timothy McDermott to the Board of Directors.
The key to the company's future will be maintaining trust with users through transparency, particularly on how more complex or ongoing ‘wagers’ are settled. The team has been backed with funding from Sequoia Capital, who have most likely gauged how valuable the opinion data collected on the site could be to market and political researchers - although the CFTC's reluctance to approve betting on US elections has presented a block in the road for Kalshi's plans to add "the outcome of congressional elections" to its asset options.
Kirsty
Company Specialist at Welcome to the Jungle
Insights
-16% employee growth in 12 months
Company
Funding (2 rounds)
Feb 2021
$30m
SERIES A
Mar 2019
$0.2m
SEED
Total funding: $30.2m
Company benefits
- Work from home opportunities
Company HQ
SoHo, New York, NY
Leadership
Luana Lopes Lara
(Co-Founder)Studied Computer Science at MIT. Researcher at MIT in the Media Lab and later the Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence Laboratory. Worked as a Quantitative Trader at Five Rings Capital and Citadel Securities. Most recently she was a Researcher at the MIT Brain and Cognitive Science Centre.
Tarek Mansour
(Co-Founder)Studied Electrical Engineering and Computer Science at MIT. Started off working in finance, as an Analyst at Audi Capital and Goldman Sachs. Was a Quantitative Trader twice at Five Rings Capital and Citadel Securities.
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