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Overview
Join Polymarket as a Staff Infrastructure Engineer to build and scale the world's largest prediction market platform. Focus on Kubernetes, cloud infrastructure, and CI/CD to support fast and reliable engineering operations. Polymarket is the world's largest prediction market platform. We enable individuals to express views on real-world events by trading on outcomes across politics, economics, sports, culture, and current affairs. Built as a peer-to-peer marketplace with no centralized "house," Polymarket aggregates diverse opinions into transparent, market-based probabilities that reflect collective expectations about the future. We're growing fast: both in volume ($21B traded in 2025) and in adoption as an alternative news source. Our ambition is to become a ubiquitous beacon of truth in global media, powered by fast, reliable, and deeply technical market infrastructure.
What you'll do
- •Own core infrastructure: Design, build, and operate the Kubernetes-based platform that runs Polymarket's services, including cluster architecture, workload scheduling, and multi-environment management.
- •Build for scale & reliability: Design and implement systems for autoscaling, load balancing, service discovery, and disaster recovery that hold up under real trading volume.
- •Automate everything: Write code (not just scripts) to manage infrastructure as code, build internal tooling, and eliminate manual toil across deployment, provisioning, and operations.
- •Strengthen CI/CD: Build and maintain fast, reliable deployment pipelines that let engineering teams ship confidently and frequently.
- •Drive observability & incident response: Build monitoring, logging, and alerting systems; participate in on-call rotations and lead root-cause analysis for production incidents.
- •Manage cloud infrastructure: Architect and optimize our cloud footprint (AWS/GCP) for cost, performance, and security.
- •Collaborate cross-functionally: Work closely with backend, exchange, and product engineering teams to ensure infrastructure decisions support the platform's performance and growth needs.
Benefits
- •Competitive salary & equity
- •Unlimited PTO
- •Full Health, Vision, & Dental coverage
- •401k match
- •Hardware setup — new MacBook Pro, big display, & accessories
What we're looking for
- •5+ years of professional infrastructure/platform/DevOps engineering experience, ideally at a large-scale company with high-traffic, production systems.
- •Deep hands-on experience with Kubernetes and Docker in production — cluster operations, workload orchestration, and container lifecycle management.
- •Strong software engineering fundamentals — able to write production-grade code (Go, Python, or similar), not just configuration and scripts.
- •Solid experience with at least one major cloud provider (AWS or GCP), including networking, IAM, compute, and storage.
- •Experience with infrastructure-as-code tooling (Terraform, Pulumi, or similar) and CI/CD systems.
- •Comfortable debugging complex, distributed production systems on Linux and taking ownership of correctness, performance, and uptime.
- •(Plus) Experience operating infrastructure for high-throughput, low-latency, or financial/trading systems.
- •(Plus) Experience with service mesh, GitOps (ArgoCD/Flux), or multi-cluster/multi-region architectures.
- •(Plus) Familiarity with observability stacks (Prometheus, Grafana, Datadog, OpenTelemetry).