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Engineering Manager, Trust & Safety, Surveillance & Compliance

Polymarket· Engineering
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New York$350k - $500kFull-timePosted yesterday

About the role

Engineering Manager responsible for building and leading systems that ensure Polymarket's trust and safety, including identity/onboarding, fraud and financial crime controls, market surveillance, and user protections, in collaboration with Trust & Safety, Surveillance, and Compliance teams.

Responsibilities

  • Own identity verification and onboarding systems (KYC), including vendor integrations, decisioning, and edge cases.
  • 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 alerts for analysts.
  • Ship user protections such as deposit limits, self-exclusion, and responsible trading controls, reliable across the product.
  • Build case management and investigation tooling for Surveillance, Compliance, and Trust & Safety teams, with audit trails and records for a regulated exchange.
  • Hire and lead a team of senior engineers, set the technical direction, and balance user friction against risk with good judgment.

Qualifications

  • 8+ years in software engineering
  • 2+ years managing engineers
  • Experience building trust and safety, integrity, fraud, risk, or surveillance systems at a company with meaningful scale
  • Comfort in a regulated environment and translating compliance requirements into concrete system design
  • Strong data-intensive systems skills: event streams, rules engines, detection pipelines, real-time vs batch considerations
  • Collaboration with policy, investigations, and compliance teams
  • (Plus) Experience at an exchange, broker, or crypto platform with trade surveillance or AML obligations
  • (Plus) Familiarity with surveillance and compliance vendors (e.g., trade surveillance platforms, KYC providers, blockchain analytics)
  • (Plus) Applied ML or anomaly detection experience for fraud or abuse
  • (Plus) Experience across both centralized and on-chain products

Skills

Required:KYC and identity verification systemsFraud and financial crime controlsMarket and trade surveillanceUser protection featuresCase management & investigations toolingLeadership & team management

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
Last updated Oct 25, 2026. Interested? Apply on the company site.

About Polymarket

Polymarket | The World's Largest Prediction Market™

Polymarket is the world's largest prediction market, allowing you to stay informed and profit from your knowledge by trading on future events across various topics.

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