Staff DevOps Engineer

Department: Engineering

Employment Type: Full Time

Location: New York, New York, Remote - USA, Remote

Role Overview

What You’ll Own

• 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.

What We’re Looking For

• 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

• 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

Why Join Us!

• Competitive compensation aligned to role and market
• Equity opportunities so you share in what we’re building
• A clear connection between impact and reward

• Medical, dental, and vision coverage
• Flexible time off built on trust and accountability
• A culture that respects your time and avoids unnecessary meetings

• Fully remote within the U.S.
• Flexibility to work in the way that helps you do your best work

• 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