Sports Operations Engineer

Kalshi
New York
Workplace: OnsiteFull timeUSD 100,000 - 150,000 annuallyFunction: Product ManagementExperience: 1-3 yearsEducation: bachelorsSkills: ["Python","JavaScript","Airflow","Dagster","Prefect","Cron","WebSockets","JSON","XML","SQL","NoSQL","Data processing","Automation"]

Lead the sports markets infrastructure at Kalshi by building and maintaining automation, data pipelines, and real-time processing systems for market listing, monitoring, and settlement across major leagues. You will own internal tooling, implement sports rules in code, and optimize performance to scale with growing market volumes, collaborating with product and engineering to deliver scalable market operations.

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Job Summary

Lead the sports markets infrastructure at Kalshi by building and maintaining automation, data pipelines, and real-time processing systems for market listing, monitoring, and settlement across major leagues. You will own internal tooling, implement sports rules in code, and optimize performance to scale with growing market volumes, collaborating with product and engineering to deliver scalable market operations.
Location: New York
Workplace: Onsite
Employment Type: Full time
Job Function: Product Management

Key Responsibilities

  • •Design and build Python automation scripts that list, update, and determine sports markets at scale, handling pre-game, in-play, and futures across multiple leagues.
  • •Build robust data pipelines that ingest, process, and structure large volumes of sports data from multiple feeds with low latency and data integrity.
  • •Implement and maintain complex DAGs for orchestrating market operations workflows across thousands of concurrent events.
  • •Develop and maintain cron jobs and scheduled tasks that automatically list markets at optimal times, update odds, and settle markets after game completion.
  • •Own and evolve internal tools used by the Market Operations team to improve tooling, settlement verification, and operational monitoring.

Pay and Benefits

Salary: USD 100,000 - 150,000 annually
Equity and Bonus:Equity
Perks:Equity

Key Requirements

  • •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.
Experience:1-3 yearsSportsTradingData pipelines
Education:Bachelor's
Skills:PythonJavaScriptAirflowDagsterPrefectCronWebSocketsJSONXMLSQLNoSQLData processingAutomation
Languages:English
Tech Stack:PythonJavaScriptAirflowDagsterPrefectCronWebSocketsSQLNoSQLJSONXML

Company Brief

Kalshi
Operates a regulated exchange offering event-based contracts that let users trade outcomes on real-world events, providing a marketplace for hedging and speculation across political, economic, and market-related questions.
Industry: Trading Platforms
Company Size: Medium (51 to 250 employees)
Growth: Scaleup
Funding: Series C
Headquarters: New York, United States
Founded: 2018
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