Engineering Manager, Trust & Safety, Surveillance & Compliance

Polymarket • New York, NY

4d • $350,000 - $500,000

About The Position

Polymarket is hiring an Engineering Manager to lead systems supporting trust and safety, surveillance, and compliance for its CFTC-regulated US exchange and clearinghouse. The role leads development of identity and onboarding systems, fraud and financial crime controls, market surveillance, user protections, and investigation tooling. The manager partners closely with Trust & Safety, Surveillance, and Compliance leaders, who define policy and conduct investigations, while the engineering team builds the detection systems, controls, and tools needed to support their work at scale. The role also includes hiring and leading senior engineers, setting technical direction, and balancing user friction against risk.

Requirements

• At least 8 years of software engineering experience.
• At least 2 years of experience 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 skills with data-intensive systems, including event streams, rules engines, detection pipelines, and real-time versus batch tradeoffs.
• Experience collaborating with non-engineering partners, including policy, investigations, and compliance teams.

Nice To Haves

• Experience at an exchange, broker, or crypto platform with trade surveillance or AML obligations.
• Familiarity with surveillance and compliance vendors, such as trade surveillance platforms, KYC providers, or blockchain analytics.
• Applied machine learning or anomaly detection experience for fraud or abuse.
• Experience across both centralized and on-chain products.

Responsibilities

• Own identity verification and onboarding systems (KYC), including vendor integrations, decisioning, and edge cases.
• Build fraud and financial crime controls, including payment risk checks, AML transaction monitoring, and sanctions screening.
• Build trade and market surveillance systems to detect manipulation, wash trading, spoofing, and misuse of non-public information, and generate alerts for surveillance analysts.
• Ship reliable user protections, including deposit limits, self-exclusion, and responsible trading controls.
• Build case management and investigation tools for Surveillance, Compliance, and Trust & Safety teams, including the audit trails and records required by a regulated exchange.
• Hire and lead a team of senior engineers and set technical direction.
• Balance user friction against risk with good judgment.

Benefits

• Competitive salary and equity.
• Unlimited PTO.
• Health, vision, and dental coverage.
• 401(k) match.
• Full hardware setup, including a new MacBook Pro, large display, and accessories.

What This Job Offers

• Job Type: Full-time
• Career Level: Manager
• Education Level: No Education Listed