--- title: 'Engineering Manager, Trust & Safety, Surveillance & Compliance at Polymarket' canonical: 'https://feeny.ai/job/engineering-manager-trust-safety-surveillance-compliance-polymarket-new-york-bxfx28amxq6b' type: 'job' last_seen: '2026-10-25' --- # Engineering Manager, Trust & Safety, Surveillance & Compliance at Polymarket - **Company:** Polymarket - **Location:** New York, NY - **Employment:** full-time - **Work type:** onsite - **Posted:** 2026-10-19 - **Last confirmed live:** 2026-10-25 - **Apply:** https://jobs.ashbyhq.com/polymarket/888cc86a-755a-4f0c-9578-4a432e007d5c ## Job description ## 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. ## About Polymarket ## Company Overview - **One-liner**: Polymarket is the world's largest prediction market platform, enabling users to trade on the outcomes of real-world events to surface a crowd‑driven signal of what people actually believe will happen. - **Entity Type**: Private (multiple funding rounds; latest $2B corporate round led by Intercontinental Exchange in November 2025) - **Headquarters**: New York, New York, United States - **Founded**: 2020 - **Founders**: Not publicly available ## Core Business - **Primary industry**: Prediction markets / Information markets / Financial technology - **Target customers**: B2C (30 million monthly visitors) and B2B (institutional investors, media, financial firms using data for research and hedging) - **Mission or purpose**: “Become the new front page of the internet” and “Define the coming era of finance” by rewarding conviction and bringing private insight to life in the public forum [careers.polymarket.com](https://careers.polymarket.com/) ## Products & Services - **Polymarket Platform (Prediction Markets)**: A decentralized platform where users trade on the probabilities of future events across politics, geopolitics, business, culture, and breaking news. Real‑time, crowd‑driven forecasts often more accurate than polling. [polymarket.com](https://polymarket.com/) - **Event‑Data Feeds**: Aggregated market probabilities distributed via partnerships with X, Substack, Yahoo Finance, and other media to provide “the true signal in world events.” [careers.polymarket.com](https://careers.polymarket.com/) - **Institutional & Media Solutions**: Partnerships with Dow Jones (official information market for WSJ, Barron’s, MarketWatch) and Intercontinental Exchange (owner of NYSE) to distribute event‑driven data to global markets and power next‑generation hedging strategies. [careers.polymarket.com](https://careers.polymarket.com/) ## Market Standing - **Valuation/Market Cap**: Not disclosed; total funding exceeds $2.87B (see below) - **Key Metric**: - **Annual Revenue**: $17.9M (as reported by LinkedIn) - **Total Funding**: $2.874B (including a $2B corporate round from Intercontinental Exchange in November 2025, a $45M Series B led by Founders Fund in May 2024, and earlier rounds) - **Notable Investors/Partners**: - Intercontinental Exchange (lead in 2025 corporate round) - Founders Fund (lead in Series B) - Dow Jones (official data partnership) - Key acquisitions: QCEX ($112M), Brahma, Dome - **Growth Signals**: - Monthly visitors: ~45 million (global rank #816, traffic up +373% year‑over‑year) - Headcount: 201 employees (+775% YoY) - Active job postings: 42 (monthly +44.8%, yearly +1300%) - Expanded to 20 countries; offices in New York, United States (HQ), plus remote presence ## Competitive Advantages - **First‑mover and market dominance** in prediction markets with the deepest liquidity and widest event coverage. - **Institutional credibility** through partnerships with Intercontinental Exchange (NYSE owner) and Dow Jones – an unmatched bridge between retail prediction markets and traditional finance. - **Real‑time, crowd‑sourced accuracy** that is often faster and more reliable than polls or experts, attracting both retail users and institutional clients. - **Network effects**: 30M monthly visitors provide the liquidity that makes the platform useful; data feeds are increasingly embedded in major media and financial platforms. ## Strategic Focus - **Institutional expansion**: Leveraging partnerships with ICE and Dow Jones to integrate Polymarket data into financial research, hedging, and media. - **Becoming the “front page of the internet”** – making market probabilities the default way to understand any breaking news event. - **Defining the next era of finance** by merging real‑time information markets with traditional financial instruments. - **Talent acquisition**: Actively hiring quantitative traders, data analysts, derivatives experts, AML compliance officers, and engineering roles to scale platform, security, and institutional support. [jobs.ashbyhq.com](https://jobs.ashbyhq.com/polymarket) ## Why Work Here - **High‑growth environment**: 775% headcount growth in the past year; massive traffic scaling and institutional adoption create exciting challenges. - **Mission‑driven culture**: Build the “information market” that cuts through noise and empowers better decision‑making – a blend of finance, tech, and media. - **Engineering & data focus**: Tech stack includes blockchain, PostgreSQL, ClickHouse, Terraform, Python, and JavaScript; roles span application security, AI ops, data engineering, and Android development. - **Remote & office flexibility**: Headquarters in New York, NY; operates in 20 countries. Hybrid/remote policy not specified but international presence suggests flexibility. - **Compensation & culture**: Employer rating 4.3/5 (perfect scores for work‑life, compensation, culture, career). Senior Accounting Manager salary listed at $225k–$240k (New York). [indeed.com](https://www.indeed.com/cmp/Polymarket) - **Notable perks / engineering culture**: Emphasis on decentralized finance, open‑source principles, and “rewarding conviction” – a fast‑paced, intellectually stimulating environment. ## Sources 1. [careers.polymarket.com](https://careers.polymarket.com/) 2. [polymarket.com](https://polymarket.com/) 3. [linkedin.com (company profile)](https://www.linkedin.com/company/polymarket/jobs) 4. [indeed.com (salary data)](https://www.indeed.com/cmp/Polymarket) 5. 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