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Staff Backend Engineer (Go)
250Β 000 - 500Β 000$
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TL;DR
Staff Backend Engineer (Go) (Real-Time Exchange Infrastructure): Building and scaling low-latency backend services, event-driven data pipelines, and APIs for a real-money prediction market exchange with an accent on performance, correctness, and production reliability. Focus on profiling distributed systems, designing for failure and graceful degradation, and operating high-throughput services under live financial consequences.
Location: New York, United States; on-site
Salary: $250,000β$500,000 base salary per year, plus equity and benefits
Company
Polymarket operates a peer-to-peer prediction market platform where users trade on outcomes across politics, economics, sports, culture, and current affairs.
What you will do
- Design and implement low-latency backend services for the core exchange, primarily using Go.
- Profile and tune systems to improve latency, throughput, and memory usage.
- Build and maintain event-driven data pipelines and APIs using Kafka, Pulsar, or similar streaming platforms.
- Own production reliability, diagnose live incidents, write postmortems, and ship preventive fixes.
- Collaborate with product, infrastructure, and data engineers to integrate exchange services across the platform.
- Contribute to distributed-systems architecture, including failure handling, graceful degradation, and recovery from partial outages.
Requirements
- 7+ years of professional backend development experience with strong proficiency in Go, Python, or Java.
- Deep knowledge of algorithms, data structures, concurrency, and memory management applied to production systems.
- Experience building and debugging high-throughput, low-latency systems on Linux from design through production operation.
- Strong focus on correctness and defensive engineering in systems with financial consequences.
- Ability to work independently with high autonomy and ownership.
Nice to have
- Experience with trading systems, high-frequency trading, gaming, telecom, or other latency-sensitive domains.
- Production experience with Kafka, Pulsar, or similar streaming platforms at scale.
- Familiarity with gRPC, Protobuf, or ZeroMQ.
- Experience operating cloud services on AWS or GCP with containers and modern deployment tooling.
Culture & Benefits
- High autonomy and ownership in a small, senior engineering group.
- Competitive salary and equity.
- Unlimited paid time off.
- Full health, vision, and dental coverage.
- 401(k) matching and a hardware setup including a new MacBook Pro, display, and accessories.
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