Software Engineer - DevOps - Bitnomial

As a Software Engineer - DevOps at Bitnomial (part of Payward, the parent company of Kraken), you build and maintain the infrastructure for a US CFTC-regulated derivatives exchange, clearinghouse, and brokerage. You work across systems written largely in Haskell that process every order, fill, and settlement in a live, regulated financial environment. Your focus is on build pipelines, deployment safety, operational reliability, and the systems that keep digital asset derivatives trading running smoothly.

What you'll do

• Improve build and release pipelines in GitHub Actions through 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, ensuring deploys are 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
• Investigate production issues, fix root causes, and document what you learned
• Build, test, and ship well-reviewed features and fixes across the exchange, clearinghouse, and brokerage systems, mostly 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, plus infrastructure as code with Terraform
• Strong Linux and scripting skills in Bash, Python, or similar
• 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 participate 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 you ship it
• 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

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, part of Payward, is building a next-generation US-based global derivatives exchange regulated by the CFTC. It operates an exchange (DCM), clearinghouse (DCO), and brokerage (FCM), offering crypto-settled derivatives including futures, options, and perpetual futures to brokers, hedge funds, institutions, and trading firms worldwide.