Engineering Manager, Trust & Safety, Surveillance & Compliance
About Polymarket
Polymarket is the world's largest prediction market. In the US, we operate a CFTC-regulated exchange and clearinghouse, which comes with real obligations to protect our markets and our users. We recently launched our Trust & Safety program and are building surveillance and compliance capabilities in-house. Engineering is the team that makes those commitments work in production.
About the role
We're hiring an Engineering Manager to lead the systems that keep Polymarket fair and safe: identity and onboarding, fraud and financial crime controls, market surveillance, and user protections. You'll partner closely with our Trust & Safety, Surveillance, and Compliance leaders. They define the policy and run the investigations, and your team builds the detection, controls, and tools that make their work possible at scale.
What you'll do
• Own identity verification and onboarding systems (KYC), including vendor integrations, decisioning, and the edge cases that come with them.
• Build fraud and financial crime controls: payment risk checks, AML transaction monitoring, and sanctions screening.
• Build trade and market surveillance that detects manipulation, wash trading, spoofing, and misuse of non-public information, and produce the alerts our surveillance analysts act on.
• Ship user protections such as deposit limits, self-exclusion, and responsible trading controls, and make them reliable across the product.
• Build case management and investigation tooling for the Surveillance, Compliance, and Trust & Safety teams, with the audit trails and records a regulated exchange needs.
• Hire and lead a team of senior engineers, set the technical direction, and balance user friction against risk with good judgment.
What we're looking for
• 8+ years in software engineering and 2+ years managing engineers.
• Experience building trust and safety, integrity, fraud, risk, or surveillance systems at a company operating at meaningful scale.
• Comfort working in a regulated environment and translating compliance requirements into concrete system design.
• Strong data-intensive systems skills: event streams, rules engines, detection pipelines, and the tradeoffs between real-time and batch.
• Collaboration with non-engineering partners. You'll work with policy, investigations, and compliance teams every day.
•(Plus) Experience at an exchange, broker, or crypto platform with trade surveillance or AML obligations.
•(Plus) Familiarity with surveillance and compliance vendors (for example trade surveillance platforms, KYC providers, or blockchain analytics).
•(Plus) Applied ML or anomaly detection experience for fraud or abuse.
•(Plus) Experience across both centralized and on-chain products.
Benefits
Competitive salary and equity
Unlimited PTO
Health, vision, and dental coverage
401(k) match
Full hardware setup: new MacBook Pro, large display, and accessories
Pay Transparency
Base salary range: $250,000 to $400,000 annually, plus equity and benefits.
This range reflects a good-faith estimate for this position. Experience levels vary widely within a title here, so please reach out even if your expectations fall outside it. We're always happy to chat.
Salary Range
USD 350,000 - 500,000 per year
About Polymarket
Polymarket is at the forefront of the decentralized information and prediction market revolution, leveraging cutting-edge blockchain technology to create a more transparent and efficient way to bet on real-world events. We're building a platform where users can trade on their beliefs about everything from politics to pop culture, fostering a global community driven by data and conviction. Our mission is to democratize access to information and enable price discovery in a trustless environment, fundamentally reshaping how people engage with and understand the world. Our team thrives on innovation, intellectual curiosity, and a deep-seated belief in the power of Web3 principles. We champion a culture of open collaboration, radical transparency, and continuous learning, encouraging every team member to contribute their unique perspective to solve complex challenges. We are a group of passionate builders, designers, and strategists united by a vision for a decentralized future, where markets are fair, accessible, and censorship-resistant. At Polymarket, your work directly impacts the evolution of decentralized finance and information. If you're eager to make a significant impact in the nascent but rapidly expanding blockchain space, Polymarket offers an unparalleled opportunity. Join us to contribute to a platform that empowers users, challenges traditional financial systems, and puts the power of prediction back into the hands of the people. We're looking for individuals who are not just skilled but are also true believers in the potential of crypto to create a more informed and equitable world. Come build the future with Polymarket.
Ready to Apply?
To submit your application for this position, please visit Polymarket's official website and follow their application process.