Senior IT Engineer

About the role

Kalshi has defined a new category: prediction markets. It allows people to trade on the outcome of any events and turn any question about the future into a financial asset. After years of advocacy, Kalshi legalized prediction markets in the US for the first time, is currently the fastest growing financial market in America, and offers thousands of markets across politics, economics, financials, weather, tech, AI, culture and more. The company's vision is to build the largest financial market on the planet, and its mission is to bring more truth to the world through the power of markets. As a Senior IT Engineer at Kalshi, you will own the New York office's technology experience, reporting to the lead of the Site Reliability Engineering team. You will provide hands‑on expertise across IT support, facilities, compliance technology, security, and employee onboarding.

Responsibilities

• Own the office technology experience: be the primary point of contact for IT needs in the New York office – hardware, software, networking, workspace setup, and everything in between.
• Employee onboarding: lead the IT onboarding experience for all new hires, ensuring every Kalshian is set up and ready to hit the ground running on day one.
• Executive support: provide dedicated technology support to senior leadership, handling their needs with speed and discretion.
• Compliance technology: partner with the SRE and compliance teams to manage and maintain the tools and systems that keep Kalshi secure and audit‑ready.
• Endpoint & systems management: manage device provisioning, MDM, access controls, and software licensing across the organization.
• Process & documentation: build and maintain IT processes, runbooks, and documentation that scale as the company grows.
• InfoSec & DevOps: for the right candidate, this role offers an on‑ramp into security operations and infrastructure work alongside the SRE team.

Qualifications

• 3–5+ years of IT experience, preferably at a technology or financial services company.
• Proven experience owning IT operations end‑to‑end, including hardware, networking, SaaS tools, and access management.
• Experience with Identity and Access Management (IAM) platforms such as Okta.
• Familiarity with compliance frameworks and security best practices (SOC 2, ISO 27001).
• Experience supporting executive stakeholders.
• Strong ownership mentality: you don’t wait to be asked and you follow things through to completion.
• Comfortable working in a fast‑moving, ambiguous environment where priorities can shift quickly.

Skills

• Scripting experience (Python, bash, etc).
• Networking fundamentals (APIs, HTTP).
• Cloud Computing (AWS, Azure, GCP).

Pay

Salary range: $110,000–$150,000