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 8/23/2026
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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About the Role
You will design, build, and operate Kubernetes-based infrastructure supporting production services. You will improve scalability, reliability, deployment automation, observability, incident response, and cloud efficiency while writing production-grade code and troubleshooting distributed systems on Linux.
Requirements
- 8+ years of professional infrastructure, platform, or DevOps engineering experience
- Production experience with Kubernetes and Docker
- Ability to write production-grade code in Go, Python, or similar languages
- Experience with AWS or GCP networking, IAM, compute, and storage
- Experience with infrastructure-as-code and CI/CD systems
- Ability to debug distributed production systems on Linux
- Experience with high-throughput, low-latency, or financial systems is a plus
- Experience with service mesh, GitOps, or multi-cluster and multi-region architectures is a plus
- Familiarity with Prometheus, Grafana, Datadog, or OpenTelemetry is a plus
Responsibilities
- Design and operate Kubernetes-based infrastructure
- Build autoscaling, load balancing, service discovery, and disaster recovery systems
- Automate infrastructure provisioning and operations with code
- Build and maintain CI/CD pipelines
- Develop monitoring, logging, and alerting systems
- Participate in on-call rotations and lead root-cause analysis
- Architect and optimize AWS or GCP infrastructure
- Work with engineering teams on infrastructure decisions
Benefits
- Equity
- Unlimited paid time off
- Full health, vision, and dental coverage
- 401k match
- New MacBook Pro, display, and accessories