Staff Infrastructure Engineer
Build and operate Kubernetes-based infrastructure, cloud systems, CI/CD, observability, and reliability tooling for a high-scale prediction market platform. The role requires 8+ years of infrastructure or platform engineering experience and strong production expertise with Kubernetes, cloud providers, infrastructure as code, and software development.
About the job
Responsibilities
- Design, build, and operate Polymarket’s Kubernetes-based platform, including cluster architecture, workload scheduling, and multi-environment management.
- Build systems for autoscaling, load balancing, service discovery, and disaster recovery.
- Write production-grade code and internal tooling to manage infrastructure as code and eliminate operational toil.
- Build and maintain reliable CI/CD pipelines.
- Develop monitoring, logging, and alerting systems; participate in on-call rotations and lead root-cause analysis for production incidents.
- Architect and optimize AWS or GCP infrastructure for cost, performance, and security.
- Collaborate with backend, exchange, and product engineering teams on platform performance and growth.
Requirements
- 8+ years of professional infrastructure, platform, or DevOps engineering experience, ideally operating high-traffic production systems.
- Deep production experience with Kubernetes and Docker, including cluster operations, workload orchestration, and container lifecycle management.
- Strong software engineering fundamentals and ability to write production-grade code in Go, Python, or a similar language.
- Experience with AWS or GCP, including networking, IAM, compute, and storage.
- Experience with infrastructure-as-code tooling such as Terraform or Pulumi and CI/CD systems.
- Ability to debug complex distributed production systems on Linux and own correctness, performance, and uptime.
Nice-to-haves
- Experience operating high-throughput, low-latency, or financial/trading infrastructure.
- Experience with service mesh, GitOps tools such as ArgoCD or Flux, or multi-cluster/multi-region architectures.
- Familiarity with observability stacks such as Prometheus, Grafana, Datadog, or OpenTelemetry.
Compensation and Benefits
- Competitive salary and equity.
- Unlimited PTO.
- Full health, vision, and dental coverage.
- 401(k) match.
- Hardware setup including a new MacBook Pro, large display, and accessories.
Skills
Kubernetes, Docker, Go, Python, AWS, GCP, Terraform, Pulumi, CI/CD, Linux, Prometheus, Grafana, Datadog, OpenTelemetry, Argo CD
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