Engineering Manager, Trust & Safety, Surveillance & Compliance

About the role

Polymarket operates as the largest prediction market globally, with a regulated exchange in the US. The company is committed to ensuring market fairness and user safety through its Trust & Safety program, which is currently being developed in-house.

The Engineering Manager will lead efforts in building systems for identity verification, fraud controls, and market surveillance. This role requires collaboration with various teams to translate compliance requirements into effective system designs, ensuring a balance between user experience and risk management.

The salary range for this role is between $250,000 and $400,000 annually, reflecting varying experience levels within the title.

Skills that matter here

• software engineering: This role requires strong software engineering skills to build and manage trust and safety systems.
• trust and safety: Experience in trust and safety is essential for overseeing compliance and user protection systems.
• fraud detection: The manager will develop systems to detect and prevent fraud and financial crimes.
• risk management: Risk management skills are crucial for balancing user experience with compliance and safety.
• surveillance systems: Building trade and market surveillance systems is a key responsibility of this role.
• KYC: This position involves overseeing identity verification processes, including KYC compliance.

Who this role suits

• An experienced software engineer with a strong background in managing teams.
• Someone who thrives in regulated environments and can navigate compliance challenges.
• A collaborative individual comfortable working with cross-functional teams.
• A proactive leader who can balance user needs with risk management.

From the employer

What you'll do

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

What we're looking for

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

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
• Pay Transparency: Base salary range: $250k to $400k annually, plus equity and benefits. This range reflects a good-faith estimate for this position. Experience levels vary widely within a title here, so please reach out even if your expectations fall outside it. We're always happy to chat.