Staff DevOps Engineer

ProphetX is hiring a Staff DevOps Engineer to own the infrastructure, delivery pipelines, and reliability tooling behind its CFTC-regulated prediction market exchange and trading platform. The role focuses on building and operating cloud infrastructure, improving software delivery and system reliability, and partnering with engineering, security, and compliance teams.

Responsibilities:

• 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
• 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

Requirements:

• 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
• 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 trading, exchange, fintech, or other high-throughput regulated systems is strongly preferred
• 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