About the company
The global financial ecosystem is changing. Revolutionary blockchain technology has unlocked the potential for people around the world to have more equal access to wealth and information. This transformation has begun with the mass global adoption of cryptocurrencies but like all new financial systems, it needs greater trust to realize its full potential and remain safe from bad actors. That’s where we come in. The Chainalysis blockchain data platform enables businesses, governments, and banks to solve the world’s most high-profile criminal cases, paving the way for an economy built on blockchains.
Job Summary
About the role:
Chainalysis is changing the global financial ecosystem. The Chainalysis blockchain data platform enables businesses, governments, and banks to solve the world's most high-profile criminal cases, paving the way for an economy built on blockchains.
We're looking for Data Engineers to join our Data Cloud team. This group accelerates innovation and helps unlock new business lines by empowering anyone at Chainalysis to quickly and reliably discover, access, analyze, and build on top of any and all data. You'll be a key player in creating and optimizing our data platform and data processing systems.
Responsibilities:
📍Design, develop, and optimize high-performance, scalable data platforms, with a strong focus on streaming data processing, large data volumes, and cloud infrastructure. 📍Implement and maintain infrastructure automation and self-service using Terraform, ensuring reliable and repeatable environments for both development and production, and creating robust CI/CD pipelines. 📍Build seamless integrations between Data Cloud and various relational and noSQL OLTP databases. 📍Design and build frameworks and abstractions to accelerate the development of data pipelines while embedding data engineering best practices. 📍Establish and maintain observability, security, and data governance solutions to ensure high quality and reliability of data pipelines.
Requirements:
📍3+ years of experience as a Data Platform Engineer, Software Engineer, or Infrastructure Engineer, with hands-on expertise in building and maintaining cloud-based data platforms. 📍Solid experience with AWS services, a good understanding of cloud architecture, and proficiency with Terraform for provisioning and managing cloud infrastructure. 📍Experience building streaming data pipelines using Apache Flink, Apache Kafka, Spark Structured Streaming, or similar technologies. 📍Knowledge of modern data lakehouse architectures and ecosystem such as Kafka, Flink, Spark, Databricks, Snowflake, DBT, Airflow, Debezium, Delta/Iceberg, and comfort with Python/Java and SQL. 📍Experience with networking and security concepts within AWS, including VPCs, subnets, routing, security groups, IAM, etc.
Nice-to-have: 📍Exposure to or interest in the cryptocurrency technology ecosystem. 📍Experience working with different blockchain technologies. 📍Experience with a SaaS or FinTech company.
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