Engineering Manager, Trust & Safety, Surveillance & Compliance

Written by the T&S Network from Polymarket's posting.

Engineering management for the systems behind identity verification, fraud and financial crime controls, market surveillance, and user protections on a CFTC-regulated prediction market exchange. The team builds the detection, controls, and tools that Trust & Safety, Surveillance, and Compliance use to run investigations and meet exchange obligations.

• Fraud and scams
• Coordinated manipulation

What you'd do

• Own KYC identity verification and onboarding systems, including vendor integrations and decisioning logic.
• Build controls for payment risk, AML transaction monitoring, and sanctions checks.
• Create trade surveillance logic to catch wash trades, spoofing, manipulation, and insider information misuse.
• Produce alerts that surveillance analysts act on.
• Roll out deposit caps, self-exclusion, and responsible trading tools across all product surfaces.
• Build case management and investigation tooling with audit trails and records for a regulated exchange.
• Hire and lead senior engineers and set the technical direction for the team.

What it asks for

• 8+ years of software engineering and 2+ years managing engineers.
• Ability to turn regulatory rules into specific system designs in a regulated environment.
• Strong skills in event streams, rules engines, and detection pipelines, including real-time versus batch tradeoffs.
• Regular collaboration with policy, investigations, and compliance partners.
• Background at an exchange, broker, or crypto firm handling trade surveillance or AML duties (preferred).
• Hands-on work with surveillance or compliance vendors like trade monitoring tools, KYC providers, or blockchain analytics (preferred).

Terms in this role

KYC.

Know your customer: checking who a user or business is before they can transact. Required in financial services.

AML.

Anti-money laundering: the rules and checks that stop criminal money moving through a service.

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