Joblaze summary

The Trading Systems Analyst at Kalshi focuses on building and maintaining the backend infrastructure that supports trading operations, ensuring systems run smoothly and efficiently. Key skills include experience with trading systems, proficiency in languages like Golang or Rust, and familiarity with relational databases and AWS. This role is suited for someone with at least a year of relevant experience, particularly in systems analysis or computer science. Kalshi's culture emphasizes meritocracy and ownership, allowing team members to shape their roles as the company evolves.

Joblaze insights

Listed yesterday — first seen on Joblaze November 14, 2026. Last confirmed on Kalshi's careers page November 14, 2026.
Salary band is in line with the typical range for Backend roles (median ~$180,000).
Starts above 84% of 38 comparable mid backend roles in United States that list AWS we track (median $151,203 across 24 companies). See AWS salary trends
AWS appears in 25.7% of 261 comparable mid backend roles in United States; Golang appears in 3.8% of 261 comparable mid backend roles in United States.

Quick facts

Is the Trading Systems Analyst role remote?: No — this is an on-site role in New York, United States.
What's the salary range?: Kalshi lists $180,000–$300,000 for this role.
How much experience is required?: At least 1 year of relevant experience for this Trading Systems Analyst role.
Where is the role based?: Kalshi is hiring for this position in New York, United States.
What's the tech stack?: Joblaze extracted these technologies from the posting: AWS, C++, Golang, Kafka, PostgreSQL, Rust.
What seniority level is this role?: Kalshi targets mid-level candidates for this position.
Is this full-time or contract?: Full-time for this Trading Systems Analyst role at Kalshi.

From the original posting

Our vision: well… build the largest financial market on the planet.

Role Roadmap

Kalshi Trading is an affiliated trading entity that operates across all different categories on Kalshi. We are looking for backend engineers who can build and maintain the infrastructure underlying our trading operations. The ideal candidate will have the following attributes:

Troubleshoot program and system malfunctions to restore normal functioning.
Test, maintain, and monitor computer programs and systems, including coordinating the installation of computer programs and systems.
Coordinate and link the computer systems within an organization to increase compatibility so that information can be shared.
Analyze information processing or computation needs and plan and design computer systems, using techniques such as structured analysis, data modeling, and information engineering.
Specify inputs accessed by the system and plan the distribution and use of the results.
Expand or modify systems to serve new purposes or improve work flow.
Develop, document, and revise system design procedures, test procedures, and quality standards.
Review and analyze computer printouts and performance indicators to locate code problems, and correct errors by correcting codes.
Write code to perform desired actions

The ideal candidate will have the following attributes:

At least 1 year of professional experience in a related technical field, such as computer science, systems analysis, or a closely related discipline
Experience directly building trading systems including order management
Experience building robust high performance event-driven systems and APIs
Experience writing concurrent code
Very comfortable with relational databases (e.g. Postgres)
Familiarity with the AWS stack (especially RDS and ECS)
Proficiency in one of: Golang, Rust, C++

In addition to the above, the ideal candidate will also potentially have one or more of these attributes:

Familiarity with stream processing (Kafka)
Familiarity with frontend development
Familiarity with machine learning, neural networks, or generative AI including LLMs
Experience trading on Kalshi or other prediction markets

The rest of what the role looks like is up to you - a big part of our approach is that you get to chart your path as we grow and evolve. You will have a lot of influence in shaping what both your role and the activity of Kalshi Trading look like as we grow. There's a lot of green field to conquer, we trust that you'll make a lot of it your own.

NYC Pay Transparency Disclosure

Base Salary Range: $180,000–$300,000
This range reflects current market data for this role. Kalshi has minimal hierarchy and broad variance in experience levels within each title; if your compensation expectations exceed this range, we encourage you to reach out — we’re always happy to discuss.

Standard company text repeated across Kalshi's postings is omitted here.

Trading Systems Analyst

NYC Pay Transparency Disclosure

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