Staff DevOps Engineer

ProphetX

. Own the infrastructure, delivery pipelines, and reliability tooling behind the exchange and trading platform .

Posted 11/5/2026full-timeRemote • United StatesLead💰 $180,000 - $220,000 per yearWebsite

Core Competencies

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Core Competencies

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Demonstrates extensive expertise in AWS infrastructure management, Kubernetes operations, and CI/CD pipeline development, with a strong focus on observability and incident management. Proven ability to collaborate across teams while ensuring compliance and security in high-throughput regulated environments.

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AWS Infrastructure ManagementKubernetes OperationsCI/CD Pipeline DevelopmentObservability ToolsIncident Management

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Hard Skills

Infrastructure As CodeTerraformDockerScripting in GoScripting in PythonKafka OperationsSQL DatabasesNoSQL DatabasesNetworking FundamentalsPerformance Testing

Soft Skills

Strong CommunicationProactive Problem-SolvingAdaptabilityOwnershipTeam Collaboration

Tools & Technologies

GitHub ActionsArgoCDPrometheusGrafanaOpenTelemetryDatadogLinuxSecrets ManagementAudit LoggingVulnerability Scanning

Industry Keywords

FintechTradingExchangeCFTC RegulationPrediction MarketsSports BettingKYC/AMLRisk ManagementFraud PreventionHigh-Throughput Systems

Tech Stack

Tools & technologies

AWSDockerGrafanaKafkaKubernetesLinuxNoSQLPrometheusPythonSQLTerraformGo

About the role

Key responsibilities & impact

Own the infrastructure, delivery pipelines, and reliability tooling behind the exchange and trading platform
Design, build, and operate AWS infrastructure as code across production, staging, and development environments
Run and scale the Kubernetes platform, including cluster upgrades, autoscaling, networking, and cost management
Own CI/CD end to end, including build, test, deploy pipelines, safe rollout strategies, and rollback
Build observability for the exchange with metrics, logging, tracing, dashboards, and actionable SLO-based alerting
Operate and tune Kafka, databases, caches, and WebSocket edge services supporting event-driven systems
Participate in on-call, lead incident response, and run blameless postmortems
Partner with security and compliance on access controls, secrets management, audit logging, vulnerability management, and disaster recovery
Plan capacity and performance testing ahead of high-volume sports events and automate toil
Document runbooks and share knowledge across the engineering team
Work closely with backend, security, and compliance partners while influencing architecture, platform standards, and safe software delivery
Help scale a live, CFTC-regulated prediction market and exchange

Requirements

What you’ll need

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) is nice to have
Familiarity with risk, fraud, KYC/AML, or settlement systems is nice to have
Experience scaling a team through hiring and growth in a startup environment is nice to have

Benefits

Comp & perks

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