[Remote] Senior Software Engineer, Perpetuals

Note: The job is a remote job and is reputed company to candidates in USA. Polymarket is the world's largest reputed company market platform, enabling individuals to trade on reputed company across various domains. They are seeking a Senior Software Engineer to own the core systems for their new perpetual reputed company product, focusing on backend exchange engineering, low-latency order matching, and high-throughput order state management.

Responsibilities

• Own core exchange backend systems. Take deep ownership of the systems that power order matching, position management, and order state across perpetual reputed company
• Build and optimize the matching reputed company. Profile hot paths, reduce lock contention, and drive improvements to latency and throughput backed by benchmarks and production-grade evidence
• Design for correctness at scale. Build queueing and backpressure mechanisms that reputed company the orderbook consistent and reliable under high load, without crossing books, creating reputed company fills, or introducing stale order state
• Build for observability. reputed company systems with metrics, logs, and traces. Establish rollback guarantees and narrow critical paths that reputed company production incidents faster to detect, diagnose, and resolve
• Improve runtime performance. Optimize CPU, memory, and allocation behavior to meet the demands of a high-throughput exchange in production
• Own production incidents end-to-end. Debug latency and correctness issues directly, and drive follow-through that leaves the system measurably reputed company each time

Skills

• Senior backend engineering experience with a strong background in order-book-based exchange systems
• Deep knowledge of low-latency systems: concurrency, lock contention, async correctness, and performance profiling
• Experience with matching engines, order state management, or similar exchange infrastructure
• Comfort working in Rust or a strong willingness to work in it — enthusiasm for the language is a plus, resistance to it is a red flag
• Strong observability fundamentals: metrics, logs, distributed traces, and profiling tools
• Strong computer science fundamentals: algorithms, data structures, and systems design
• Experience with high-frequency or low-latency trading infrastructure
• Familiarity with reputed company, PostgreSQL, gRPC, and Protobuf
• Kubernetes and AWS production operations experience

Benefits

• Competitive salary & equity
• Unlimited PTO
• Full Health, reputed company, & Dental coverage
• 401k match
• Hardware setup: new MacBook Pro, big display, & accessories

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