Senior Quantitative Developer at Polymarket

<h2><strong>About Polymarket</strong></h2><p style="min-height:1.5em">Polymarket is the world's largest prediction market platform. We enable individuals to express views on real-world events by trading on outcomes across politics, economics, sports, culture, and current affairs. Built as a peer-to-peer marketplace with no centralized "house," Polymarket aggregates diverse opinions into transparent, market-based probabilities that reflect collective expectations about the future.</p><p style="min-height:1.5em">We're growing fast — both in terms of volume ($21B traded in 2025) and adoption as an alternative news source. Our ambition is to become a ubiquitous beacon of truth in global media and we need your help adding fuel to the fire.</p><p style="min-height:1.5em"></p><h2><strong>About the Role</strong></h2><p style="min-height:1.5em">Polymarket is looking for a Senior Quantitative Developer to join the team that runs the data infrastructure powering our platform — real-time pipelines, clean market data, and reliable delivery across every system that depends on it. The team is small and the surface area is large. Everyone carries meaningful ownership.</p><p style="min-height:1.5em">This hire is about adding real depth to a high-performing team working on complex, high-stakes systems. You'll take full ownership of critical pipelines across our data infrastructure — not just keeping them running, but actively making them better, faster, and more robust over time. If you've built and operated high-throughput data infrastructure in production environments where reliability and performance truly matter, this is the role for you. </p><p style="min-height:1.5em"></p><h2><strong>What You'll Do</strong></h2><ul style="min-height:1.5em"><li><p style="min-height:1.5em">Build and maintain real-time data pipelines that ingest market events across our platform with high reliability and low latency</p></li><li><p style="min-height:1.5em">Investigate and resolve root causes of data gaps, delivery delays, and schema breaks before they compound into larger incidents</p></li><li><p style="min-height:1.5em">Ship incremental improvements to ingestion and delivery infrastructure on a continuous basis — not just when something breaks</p></li><li><p style="min-height:1.5em">Monitor pipeline health, define meaningful alerts, and reduce the operational overhead of keeping systems running</p></li><li><p style="min-height:1.5em">Partner with analysts and engineers to understand how data is consumed downstream and improve the quality and shape of what gets delivered</p></li><li><p style="min-height:1.5em">Document systems clearly enough that any engineer on the team can context-switch into your systems without friction </p></li></ul><p style="min-height:1.5em"></p><h2><strong>What We're Looking For</strong></h2><ul style="min-height:1.5em"><li><p style="min-height:1.5em">5+ years of experience building and operating production data pipelines with real throughput and real co