The Data Solutions/Transpose team is an exciting new member of the Chainalysis family, working to deliver a cutting edge blockchain intelligence platform used by the world’s foremost intelligence, law enforcement, tax, and regulatory agencies, alongside many market leaders in the private sector. Our technology is used to automate and simplify solutions to complex investigations, provide real-time threat actor monitoring, give insight into the topology of threat landscapes, and much more.
As a Software Engineer on the Data Solutions team, you’ll be responsible for building and maintaining the backend services that power our cloud and on-premise products. These services are critical for vending data to our customers via API, tracking usage and billing, monitoring our data landscape, generating alerts for our customers, transforming and piping hundreds of terabytes of data, and much more. You’ll help us to raise the bar on code quality, while working closely with our team of software engineers, data engineers, data scientists, and product managers to drive globally impactful results and build trust in our software.The work that you lead and contribute to will provide our customers with the ability to derive powerful and unique insights that drive global investigatory efforts, trans-national threat actor monitoring, national security enhancements, and much more.
In this role, you’ll:
- Play a key role in delivering new capabilities to the Data Solutions platform.
- Bring exciting new ideas and energy to the team, that we will go on to integrate into building the future of Data Solutions.
- Contribute to improving the scalability and performance of our systems.
- Solve complex engineering problems with peers and stakeholders across the organization.
- Build trust in our software, by continuously improving the security and reliability posture of everything we deliver.
We’re looking for candidates who:
- Are Python experts
- Are comfortable building backend ETL pipelines and services in a Cloud environment (AWS, GCP)
- Have an understanding of how blockchains work, and core tenets of decentralized systems
- Have experience working with SQL databases
- Have an expertise in APIs, data streaming systems, and event-driven workflows
- Have a high degree of ownership and appetite for responsibility
- Have experience working with distributed systems (microservice architectures, Kubernetes deployments, etc.)
- Exemplify a high degree of pride in what you create, and own
- Experience developing systems that scale to support high volumes of traffic (hundreds to thousands of requests per second)
Nice to have experience:
- Deep blockchain knowledge (writing smart contracts in Solidity, etc.)
- Experience with PySpark/DLT
Technologies we use:
- Python
- Kubernetes
- Cloudflare
- Docker
- Databricks
- Terraform
- GCP & AWS
- Databricks
- Kafka
- Cloud Functions
About Chainalysis
Blockchain technology is powering a growing wave of innovation. Businesses and governments around the world are using blockchains to make banking more efficient, connect with their customers, and investigate criminal cases. As adoption of blockchain technology grows, more and more organizations seek access to all this ecosystem has to offer. That’s where Chainalysis comes in. We provide complete knowledge of what’s happening on blockchains through our data, services, and solutions. With Chainalysis, organizations can navigate blockchains safely and with confidence.
You belong here.
At Chainalysis, we believe that diversity of experience and thought makes us stronger. With both customers and employees around the world, we are committed to ensuring our team reflects the unique communities around us. Some of the ways we’re ensuring we keep learning are an internal Diversity Committee, Days of Reflection throughout the year including International Women’s Day, Harvey Milk Day, World Humanitarian Day, and UN International Migrants Day, and a commitment to continue revisiting and reevaluating our diversity culture.
We encourage applicants across any race, ethnicity, gender/gender expression, age, spirituality, ability, experience and more. If you need any accommodations to make our interview process more accessible to you due to a disability, don't hesitate to let us know. You can learn more here. We can’t wait to meet you.
Compensation Range: $123K - $170K
