Market Operations - Weather
New York · USD 120,000-180,000 / year · Full-time · Onsite · Posted Sep 28, 2026
At a glance
- Employment
- Full-time
- Workplace
- Onsite
- Location
- New York
- Salary
- USD 120,000-180,000 / year
About the role
- The Market Operations - Weather role involves owning the operations and infrastructure behind Kalshi’s weather markets.
- The role requires turning weather data into clear contracts, reliable markets, and accurate settlements while building automation to scale the category.
Responsibilities
- Own settlement, monitor official reports, investigate discrepancies, and resolve settlement issues accurately.
- Design and launch contracts, including writing clear terms for temperature, rain, snow, and hurricane markets.
- Manage Synoptic and other data relationships, including service levels and quality checks.
- Build and maintain Python and SQL workflows for listing, monitoring, and settling city-day markets.
- Partner with legal and compliance on contract self-certification, settlement procedures, and void policies.
- Maintain clear, reproducible audit trails for settlement decisions.
- Collaborate with trading, risk, product, and engineering to identify pricing and liquidity issues.
Requirements
- Practical knowledge of National Weather Service Climatological Reports (CLI) and Automated Surface Observing System (ASOS) station behavior.
- Experience running operational systems or data workflows where accuracy and reliability matter.
- Proficiency in Python and SQL.
- Experience building and operating automated data pipelines using Dagster or a similar orchestration framework.
- Experience managing providers, service-level expectations, data quality, and fallback procedures.
- Ability to translate complex weather events and imperfect data into precise, unambiguous settlement terms.
- Experience working under exchange rules or ability to learn Part 40 self-certification and settlement documentation requirements.
Preferred qualifications
- Understanding of how market makers price weather and recognition of directional weather exposure.
- Familiarity with utilities, energy traders, agriculture, reinsurance, or other institutional users of weather markets.
- Understanding of ensembles and model biases and how they inform market design and surveillance.
Benefits
- Salary range of $120,000 to $180,000 annually
- Equity
Skills
- Python
- SQL
- Dagster
- Data Pipelines
