Senior Software Engineer, Perpetuals
Polymarket3 months ago
Remote, United States or New York, NY, USASenior
Responsibilities
- Own the core exchange backend systems for order matching, position management, and order state across perpetual futures
- Build and optimize the matching engine by profiling hot paths, reducing lock contention, and improving latency and throughput
- Design queueing and backpressure mechanisms that preserve order-book consistency and reliability under high load
- Instrument systems with metrics, logs, and traces and establish rollback guarantees for faster incident response
- Optimize CPU, memory, and allocation behavior for a high-throughput production exchange
- Own production incidents end to end and resolve latency and correctness issues while improving the system
Requirements
- Senior backend engineering experience with a strong background in order-book-based exchange systems
- Deep knowledge of concurrency, lock contention, asynchronous correctness, and performance profiling
- Experience with matching engines, order state management, or similar exchange infrastructure
- Experience with Rust or strong willingness to work in Rust
- Strong observability fundamentals, including metrics, logs, distributed traces, and profiling tools
- Strong computer science fundamentals in algorithms, data structures, and systems design
- Experience with high-frequency or low-latency trading infrastructure is a plus
- Familiarity with Redis, PostgreSQL, gRPC, and Protobuf is a plus
- Kubernetes and AWS production operations experience is a plus
Benefits
- Competitive salary and equity
- Unlimited PTO
- Full health, vision, and dental coverage
- 401k match
- New MacBook Pro, large display, and accessories
- Work arrangement and schedule are not stated
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About Polymarket
Polymarket operates an online prediction-market exchange where people trade on the outcomes of real-world events across politics, economics, sports, and culture. The platform aggregates trades into market-based probabilities and generates revenue through trading fees on a peer‑to‑peer marketplace. Founded in 2020 and headquartered in New York, it is a privately held company.