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
In this role, you’ll:
📍Design and lead delivery of new platform capabilities that serve mission‑critical investigations and monitoring workflows. 📍Operate services that ingest, transform, and serve hundreds of terabytes of data with clear SLOs for latency, freshness, and availability. 📍Improve the scalability, performance, and cost efficiency of our data plane and APIs. 📍Raise the quality bar across reliability, security, and compliance for both cloud and on‑premises deployments. 📍Mentor engineers across teams and influence technical strategy beyond your immediate group. 📍Own and evolve backend services powering customer‑facing APIs, usage/billing, alerting, and data observability. 📍Lead team and cross-team initiatives end‑to‑end: discovery, architecture, implementation, rollout, and post‑launch learning. 📍Architect event‑driven and streaming workflows (e.g., Kafka) with strong data contracts and schema evolution. 📍Drive operational excellence: SLOs, runbooks, on‑call, incident reviews, and capacity plans for high‑QPS systems. 📍Partner with product, data engineering/science, and security to translate customer requirements into durable systems.
We’re looking for candidates who have:
📍Expert backend engineering experience building cloud‑hosted services and data pipelines on AWS or GCP (bonus: both). 📍Deep proficiency with APIs, streaming systems, and distributed systems (e.g., microservices on Kubernetes). 📍Demonstrated ownership of systems operating at scale (hundreds to thousands of RPS; TB–PB data volumes). 📍High judgment on reliability, security, and cost, with a track record of measurable improvements. 📍Ability to lead without authority—mentoring, design reviews, and cross‑org influence.
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