Staff DevOps Engineer

ProphetX; New York (NY); Remote; USD 180,000 - 220,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Medical dental vision

Flexible time off

Fully remote within the USA

Job summary

ProphetX is seeking a Staff DevOps Engineer to own our cloud infrastructure, delivery pipelines, and reliability tooling behind a real-time exchange platform. You will manage AWS-based infrastructure as code, scale Kubernetes, and own end-to-end CI/CD with advanced rollout strategies.

You will collaborate with security and compliance teams, ensuring latency, availability, and regulatory requirements are met. This is a fully remote role within the USA with leadership responsibilities from day one.

Qualifications

• 10+ years of DevOps, SRE, or platform engineering on production systems.
• Strong AWS expertise including networking, IAM, compute, data services.
• Kubernetes and Docker production experience, cluster operations and troubleshooting.

Responsibilities

• Own the cloud infrastructure, delivery pipelines, and reliability tooling.
• Design, build, operate AWS infrastructure as code across environments.
• Run and scale Kubernetes platform, including upgrades, autoscaling, networking.
• Own CI/CD end-to-end with canary/blue-green rollouts.
• Build observability with metrics, logging, tracing, dashboards, alerting.

Skills

AWS

Kubernetes

Docker

Terraform

CI/CD

Observability

Go/Python

Tools

GitHub Actions

ArgoCD

Terraform

Prometheus

Grafana

Job description

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