Staff DevOps Engineer

Application Deadline: 27 November 2026

Department: Engineering

Employment Type: Full Time

Location: Remote - USA

Compensation: $180,000 - $220,000 / year

Description

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.

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

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

Why Join Us!

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

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