Staff DevOps Engineer

This is a fully remote position, open to applicants in United States.

📋 Description

• Take ownership of the infrastructure, delivery pipelines, and reliability tools supporting the exchange and trading platform.

• Design, develop, and manage AWS infrastructure as code across production, staging, and development environments.

• Operate and scale the Kubernetes platform, including handling cluster upgrades, autoscaling, networking, and cost management.

• Manage the entire CI/CD process, encompassing build, test, and deploy pipelines, in addition to safe rollout strategies and rollback procedures.

• Establish observability for the exchange through metrics, logging, tracing, dashboards, and actionable SLO-based alerting.

• Operate and optimize Kafka, databases, caches, and WebSocket edge services that support event-driven architectures.

• Participate in on-call duties, lead incident response efforts, and conduct blameless postmortems.

• Collaborate with security and compliance teams on access controls, secrets management, audit logging, vulnerability management, and disaster recovery initiatives.

• Plan for capacity and performance testing in anticipation of high-volume sports events and automate repetitive tasks.

• Document runbooks and disseminate knowledge throughout the engineering team.

• Work closely with backend, security, and compliance teams while influencing architecture, platform standards, and secure software delivery practices.

• Assist in scaling a live, CFTC-regulated prediction market and exchange.

⛳️ Requirements

• Over 10 years of experience in DevOps, SRE, or platform engineering, managing production systems at scale.

• Extensive hands-on experience with AWS (or equivalent), covering networking, IAM, compute, and managed data services.

• Proficient in Kubernetes and Docker in production environments, including cluster operations and troubleshooting.

• Experienced in infrastructure as code (preferably Terraform) and configuration management, utilizing GitOps-style workflows.

• Demonstrated ability to build and maintain CI/CD pipelines at scale (using GitHub Actions, ArgoCD, or similar tools).

• Strong skills in observability, with experience using Prometheus, Grafana, OpenTelemetry, Datadog, or similar tools, along with SLO-driven alerting.

• Solid scripting or programming skills in Go or Python (Go preferred) and familiarity with Linux and networking fundamentals.

• Experience operating Kafka, SQL and NoSQL databases, as well as low-latency, real-time services in production settings.

• Knowledge of incident management, on-call responsibilities, and conducting blameless postmortems.

• Understanding of security best practices, including secrets management, least-privilege access, vulnerability scanning, and audit logging.

• Experience in trading, exchange, fintech, or other high-throughput regulated systems is highly preferred.

• Excellent communicator capable of articulating complex trade-offs to both technical and non-technical audiences.

• Proactive, growth-oriented, and highly adaptable, demonstrating a strong sense of ownership.

• Familiarity with prediction markets, sports betting, or regulated exchanges (CFTC or similar) is a plus.

• Knowledge of risk, fraud, KYC/AML, or settlement systems is advantageous.

• Experience scaling a team through hiring and growth in a startup environment is a plus.

🏝️ Benefits

• Competitive compensation aligned with the role and market standards.

• Equity opportunities that allow you to share in our growth.

• A clear connection between your impact and rewards.

• Medical, dental, and vision insurance coverage.

• Flexible time off based on trust and accountability.

• A culture that values your time and minimizes unnecessary meetings.

• Fully remote work within the U.S.

• Flexibility to work in a manner that enables you to perform at your best.