Software Engineer - DevOps - Bitnomial

As a Software Engineer - DevOps at Bitnomial (part of Payward, the parent company of Kraken), you will build the infrastructure and operational systems for a US CFTC-regulated derivatives exchange, clearinghouse, and brokerage. Bitnomial operates a next-generation global exchange starting with digital assets and crypto-settled derivatives including futures, options, and perpetual futures. You will work on systems that record every order, fill, and settlement, designing schemas, queries, and migrations alongside the engineering team.

What you'll do

• Improve build and release pipelines in GitHub Actions, including caching, parallelism, pinned toolchains, and required tests and scans before production
• Manage AWS infrastructure as code with Terraform and run services as containers on Nomad
• Build deployment tooling with health checks and automated rollback, and make deploys safe around market sessions
• Add metrics and alerts to the services you build so you can verify whether a deploy worked
• Monitor systems, respond to alerts, and support daily operations such as settlement cycles
• Fix the cause of production issues and document what you learned
• Build, test, and ship well-reviewed features and fixes in services across the exchange, clearinghouse, and brokerage, with most code in Haskell
• Understand the order, trade, clearing, and settlement flows end to end

What you bring

• Hands-on experience with CI/CD pipelines such as GitHub Actions or GitLab CI
• Production experience with AWS and Docker, and infrastructure as code with Terraform
• Strong Linux and scripting skills in Bash, Python, or similar languages
• 3+ years of professional software engineering experience with a functional or strongly typed programming language such as Haskell, Rust, or C++
• Solid computer science fundamentals including distributed systems: failure modes, retries and idempotency, consistency, and how to observe them across services
• Willingness to take part in on-call and operational shifts
• Care and rigor with code that moves money
• Good judgment with AI tools: you use them to work faster and you read, test, and understand what they produce before shipping
• A habit of asking why before changing something
• Sound judgment under pressure with a calm and methodical approach when production is live
• Ability to collaborate across engineering, operations, risk, and compliance, with a habit of documenting your work

Nice to have

• Financial knowledge or experience in trading, markets, or financial services
• Bachelor's degree in computer science or a related field, or equivalent experience
• Experience with Nomad or Kubernetes
• Experience with Nix, Ansible, Vault, or Prometheus, Grafana, and Loki
• Haskell experience

About Bitnomial

Bitnomial is building a next-generation US-based global derivatives exchange regulated by the CFTC, operating as a designated contract market (DCM), derivatives clearing organization (DCO), and futures commission merchant (FCM). It offers crypto-settled derivatives including futures, options, and perpetual futures for brokers, hedge funds, institutions, and trading firms worldwide.