Polymarket is looking for a core C/C++ engineer to help build and scale our exchange infrastructure. This is a low-latency, high-throughput systems role focused on the heart of Polymarket’s trading engine. You’ll work on performance-critical components that directly impact market quality, reliability, and speed
You’ll operate with high ownership and minimal bureaucracy, collaborating closely with other senior engineers to design, implement, and optimize systems that must be correct, fast, and resilient under real-world load
We’re looking for an experienced individual contributor who enjoys solving hard systems problems and pushing performance limits
Build the exchange core: Design and implement low-latency, high-throughput components of Polymarket’s trading and matching infrastructure using C/C++
Optimize for speed & scale: Profile, tune, and debug performance-critical systems, with a relentless focus on latency, throughput, and determinism
Design robust systems: Develop efficient algorithms and data structures, and build scalable messaging and event-driven systems (e.g. Kafka or similar)
Own reliability & correctness: Reinforce the security, availability, performance, and scalability of core exchange systems through careful design, testing, and operational rigor
Collaborate deeply: Work closely with engineers across product, infra, and data to ensure tight integration between the exchange and the rest of the platform
Contribute to engineering excellence: Participate in design reviews, code reviews, and architectural discussions to maintain a high bar for quality across the codebase