Senior Software Engineer, Perpetuals

What this role involves

Polymarket is seeking a Senior Software Engineer to own core backend systems for their perpetual futures exchange, including order matching, position management, and low-latency infrastructure. The role requires experience with order-book-based exchange systems and strong proficiency in Rust. The engineer will work on optimizing performance, observability, and production incidents.

Skills this posting asks for

• rust
• low-latency systems
• concurrency
• lock contention
• async correctness
• performance profiling
• matching engines
• order state management
• observability
• metrics
• logs
• distributed traces
• profiling tools
• algorithms
• data structures
• systems design
• high-frequency trading
• low-latency trading
• redis
• postgresql
• grpc
• protobuf
• kubernetes
• aws

Requirements

• Level: senior

From the employer’s posting

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," Polym…