Role Overview
We’re looking for a Staff DevOps Engineer to own the infrastructure, delivery pipelines, and reliability tooling behind our exchange and trading platform. You’ll build and run the cloud foundation that keeps a low-latency, regulated, always-on market available, and make it faster and safer for engineers to ship. You’ll work closely with backend, security, and compliance partners, and you’ll have real ownership from day one.
- Design, build, and operate our AWS infrastructure as code (Terraform or equivalent) across production, staging, and development environments.
- Run and scale our Kubernetes platform, including cluster upgrades, autoscaling, networking, and cost management.
- Own CI/CD end to end: fast, reliable build, test, and deploy pipelines with safe rollout strategies (canary, blue/green) and quick rollback.
- Build observability for the exchange: metrics, logging, tracing, dashboards, and actionable alerting tied to SLOs for latency and availability.
- Operate and tune supporting infrastructure for our event-driven systems, including Kafka, databases, caches, and WebSocket edge services.
- Participate in on-call, lead incident response, and run blameless postmortems that lead to durable fixes.
- Partner with security and compliance on access controls, secrets management, audit logging, vulnerability management, and disaster recovery that meet CFTC-regulated expectations.
- Plan capacity and performance testing ahead of high-volume sports events, and automate away toil.
- Document runbooks and share knowledge so the whole engineering team can operate with confidence.
- 10+ years of DevOps, SRE, or platform engineering experience running production systems at scale
- Deep hands-on expertise with AWS (or equivalent), including networking, IAM, compute, and managed data services
- Strong Kubernetes and Docker experience in production, including cluster operations and troubleshooting
- Infrastructure as code (Terraform strongly preferred) and configuration management, with GitOps-style workflows
- Proven experience building and maintaining CI/CD pipelines at scale (GitHub Actions, ArgoCD, or similar)
- Strong observability skills: Prometheus, Grafana, OpenTelemetry, Datadog, or comparable tooling, plus SLO-driven alerting
- Solid scripting or programming ability in Go or Python (Go preferred) and comfort with Linux and networking fundamentals
- Experience operating Kafka, SQL and NoSQL databases, and low-latency, real-time services in production
- Experience with incident management, on-call, and blameless postmortems
- Working knowledge of security best practices: secrets management, least-privilege access, vulnerability scanning, and audit logging
- Experience in trading, exchange, fintech, or other high-throughput regulated systems is strongly preferred
- Strong communicator who can explain complex tradeoffs to technical and non-technical audiences
- Proactive, growth-focused, and highly adaptable with a strong sense of ownership
Nice to Have
- Experience in prediction markets, sports betting, or regulated exchanges (CFTC or similar)
- Familiarity with risk, fraud, KYC/AML, or settlement systems
- Experience scaling a team through hiring and growth in a startup environment
Compensation & Ownership
- Competitive compensation aligned to role and market
- Equity opportunities so you share in what we’re building
- A clear connection between impact and reward
Health & Wellbeing
- Medical, dental, and vision coverage
- Flexible time off built on trust and accountability
- A culture that respects your time and avoids unnecessary meetings
Remote & Flexible Work
- Fully remote within the U.S.
- Flexibility to work in the way that helps you do your best work
The Role
- Own the cloud infrastructure, delivery pipelines, and reliability tooling behind the real-time, high-throughput systems at the core of America’s first sports-native, CFTC-regulated prediction market
- Take on a hands-on technical leadership role with real influence over architecture, platform standards, and how engineering ships and operates software safely at speed
- Help scale a live, regulated exchange as prediction markets grow into America’s next great asset class