Staff Infrastructure Engineer
Polymarket is a decentralized information markets platform that lets users bet on the outcome of real-world events.
Maintainer signals as of 9/2/2026
Funding history
About Polymarket
Polymarket is an information markets platform where users can trade on the outcomes of various events, leveraging the power of free markets to forecast the future. It provides a mechanism for users to bet on real-world events and earn money based on the outcomes.
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Candidate Availability
Required and preferred rules are kept separate and reflect the wording in the original posting.
About the Role
You will design and maintain infrastructure for onboarding referral systems and user acquisition pipelines. You will investigate reliability incidents review infrastructure changes instrument data pipelines establish engineering standards and make judgment calls about hardening systems or shipping new capabilities.
Requirements
- 7 or more years of infrastructure or platform engineering experience
- Meaningful experience owning production systems
- Track record of shipping systems under user growth pressure
- Ability to own systems end to end without close oversight
- Experience reducing incidents proactively
- Experience finding bottlenecks in data pipelines or user facing flows
- Strong judgment about shipping velocity and correctness
- Growth infrastructure experience is a plus
- Experience in small high autonomy engineering teams is a plus
Responsibilities
- Design and maintain infrastructure for growth systems
- Debug reliability incidents end to end
- Review pull requests for infrastructure soundness and scalability
- Instrument data pipelines to expose bottlenecks and failure points
- Coordinate decisions about hardening systems and shipping new ones
- Set infrastructure standards and reusable patterns
- Define boundaries for ambiguous systems between teams
- Drive improvements independently
Benefits
- Equity
- Unlimited PTO
- Full health vision and dental coverage
- 401k match
- New MacBook Pro display and accessories