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Overview
Join Polymarket as a Trade Surveillance Analyst to help maintain market integrity in a fast-growing prediction market platform. This entry-level role involves triaging alerts, investigating trading activity, and supporting regulatory compliance.
About Polymarket
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 terms of volume ($21B traded in 2025) and adoption as an alternative news source. Our ambition is to become a ubiquitous beacon of truth in global media and we need your help adding fuel to the fire.
What You'll Do
- •Triage the daily surveillance alert queue, reviewing flagged trading activity for spoofing, layering, wash trading, front-running, and other manipulative patterns.
- •Investigate alerts end-to-end, pulling and analyzing order book data, position information, and trade history using SQL, Python, or internal tools.
- •Write clear, well-documented case summaries for both routine closures and escalations to senior staff.
- •Maintain accurate case records and investigation files consistent with CFTC Core Principle 2 recordkeeping requirements.
- •Support senior analysts in reviewing and calibrating automated surveillance thresholds to reduce noise and improve signal quality.
- •Assist in preparing documentation, reports, and materials for CFTC examinations and regulatory audits.
- •Stay current on CFTC rules, DCM Core Principles, and relevant developments in exchange market structure.
Benefits
- •Competitive salary & equity
- •Full Health, Vision, & Dental coverage
- •401k match
- •Hardware setup: new MacBook Pro, big display, & accessories
What We're Looking For
- •0 to 3 years of experience in trade surveillance, market regulation, exchange operations, or financial services compliance.
- •Working knowledge of futures and options markets, including how order books function and how exchange trading mechanics work.
- •Familiarity with CFTC regulations and DCM Core Principles, or a demonstrated willingness to get up to speed quickly.
- •Proficiency in Excel and structured data analysis, with the ability to translate raw trading data into documented findings.
- •Strong written communication skills, specifically for producing case documentation that holds up to regulatory scrutiny.
- •Ability to work independently, manage competing priorities, and make sound judgment calls under time pressure.
- •(Plus) Hands-on experience with automated surveillance platforms such as Nasdaq Surveillance or Validus.
- •(Plus) SQL or Python used in a compliance or trading context, not just academic exposure.
- •(Plus) Prior experience in a regulated financial environment such as an exchange, FCM, or introducing broker.