Sports Operations Engineer

Kalshi has defined a new category: prediction markets. Kalshi allows people to trade on the outcome of any events and turn any question about the future into a financial asset. Kalshi fought for years and legalized prediction markets in the US for the first time in history. Kalshi is currently the fastest growing financial market in America, and has thousands of markets across politics, economics, financials, weather, tech, AI, culture and more.

We believe prediction markets have the potential to be the largest financial market because they turn anything into a financial position.

• →1-3 years of experience as a software engineer with a proven track record of building production systems.
• →Strong proficiency in Python and JavaScript with experience building automation scripts, data processing systems, and web applications.
• →Experience with DAG frameworks (Airflow, Prefect, Dagster) for orchestrating complex workflows and data pipelines.
• →Expertise with cron jobs and scheduled task management in production environments, including monitoring and error handling.
• →Experience pulling, processing, and structuring large datasets from APIs, webhooks, and real-time data feeds. Familiarity with data formats common in sports data (JSON, XML, WebSocket streams).
• →Proven ability to build automation and data pipelines that handle high-volume, time-sensitive operations with strong error handling and recovery mechanisms.
• →Track record of making continuous tooling improvements and building internal products that scale with team needs.
• →Product ownership mentality with experience gathering requirements, prioritizing features, and delivering tools that solve real operational problems.
• →Strong knowledge of sports and sports trading operations including understanding of different market types, settlement rules, and common edge cases across major sports leagues.
• →Experience with sports data providers is strongly preferred.
• →Database expertise with both SQL and NoSQL systems for storing and querying sports data efficiently.
• →Experience with real-time systems including WebSockets, event streaming, and message queues.
• →Strong debugging and troubleshooting skills with ability to quickly diagnose and fix issues in production systems.
• →Excellent communication skills to work effectively with non-technical operations team members and translate requirements into technical solutions.
• →Ability to work flexible hours including on-call rotations to support live sporting events across different time zones.
• →Passion for sports combined with technical excellence and a commitment to building world-class market infrastructure.

Salary Range: $100,000 to $150,000 annually plus equity and benefits. This salary range is based on the current available market data, and represents the expected salary range for this role. Kalshi has minimal hierarchy and few titles, but has broad ranges of experience represented within roles. Should you have compensation expectations that exceed these bands, we'd love to hear from you and would welcome you to reach out to further discuss.

Meritocracy is at our core, and we value people who take ownership and figure (usually hard) things out. We dream big. We love our craft deeply and are proud of what we put out in the world. We are committed to our vision of building something big… but also useful: a product that brings more truth through the power of markets.

Kalshians are Kalshi's most important asset: we pick Kalshians carefully, so we trust them fully on day 1.

Kalshi is committed to creating a culture of inclusion and belonging, and we are proud to be an equal opportunity employer. We believe it is our collective responsibility to uphold these values and encourage candidates from all backgrounds to join us in our mission. All qualified applicants will be treated with respect and receive equal consideration for employment without regard to race, color, creed, religion, sex, gender identity, sexual orientation, national origin, disability, uniform service, veteran status, age, or any other protected characteristic per federal, state, or local law. If you are passionate about what you do and want to use your talents to support our mission and values, we'd love to hear from you.

Kalshi is committed to creating a culture of inclusion and belonging, and we are proud to be an equal opportunity employer. We believe it is our collective responsibility to uphold these values and encourage candidates from all backgrounds to join us in our mission. All qualified applicants will be treated with respect and receive equal consideration for employment without regard to race, color, creed, religion, sex, gender identity, sexual orientation, national origin, disability, uniform service, veteran status, age, or any other protected characteristic per federal, state, or local law. If you are passionate about what you do and want to use your talents to support our mission and values, we’d love to hear from you.