The engineering team at Chainalysis is inspired by solving the hardest technical challenges and creating products that build trust in cryptocurrencies. We’re a global organization with teams in Denmark, UK, Canada, the USA who thrive on the challenging work we do and doing it with other exceptionally talented teammates. Our industry changes every day and our job is to create user facing products supported by a flexible and scalable data platform allowing us to adapt to those rapid changes and bring value to our customers.
We're looking for a Senior Software Engineer to join our Blockchain Foundations team. The Blockchain Foundations group is responsible for ingesting cryptocurrency blockchain data. You’ll be building, designing, and developing large-scale data pipelines that ingest the world’s cryptocurrency data. These pipelines are critical to the company as they provide much of the foundational data on which all of Chainalysis’ products and services are built.
In this role, you’ll:
Develop scalable, reliable, efficient and performant data systems for ingesting and parsing cryptocurrency blockchain data.
Build scalable API services on AWS that handle 1,000’s requests per second
Debug production issues and participating in a blameless post-mortem process to make our systems stronger
Collaborate with peers in the team and across teams
Support production services including debugging and maintenance
We’re looking for candidates who have:
Minimum 5 years of experience designing and implementing microservices-based systems in a major cloud provider like AWS or GCP.
Experience with object-oriented programming languages. We mostly use Typescript and Java but prior experience isn’t necessary.
A bias to ship and iterate alongside product management and design partners
Exposure to or interest in development of data pipelines
Exposure to or interest in the cryptocurrency technology ecosystem
Experience mentoring other engineers, leading cross-team projects, and driving design and technology decisions is a plus.
Technologies we use (experience not required):
AWS (S3, Lambdas, DynamoDB)
Kafka
PostgreSQL (AWS RDS)
Typescript
Java
Kubernetes
Github / Github Actions
Databricks (Spark)
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.
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