Senior Data Engineer, Data Cloud

The engineering team at Chainalysis is inspired by solving the hardest technical challenges and building products that establish trust in cryptocurrencies. We're a global organization that thrives on challenging work and doing it alongside exceptionally talented teammates. Our industry evolves rapidly, and our mission is to build a flexible, AI-driven platform that automates entity resolution, optimizes data labeling pipelines, and creates predictive models that identify illicit patterns before they escalate.

Our data and solutions have been used to solve some of the world's most high-profile criminal cases and grow consumer access to cryptocurrency safely. Now, by pairing the industry's most trusted blockchain data with agents that reason, investigate, and act, we help our customers scale their workflows as the cryptocurrency economy becomes increasingly mainstream.

We’re looking for a Senior Data Engineer to join our Data Cloud team. This group accelerates innovation & 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 leader in creating and optimizing our petabyte-scale data storage, data processing, and data querying platforms. If you’re passionate about enabling high-performance interactive analytics, real-time streaming data applications, and deploying cloud infrastructure at scale with enterprise-grade reliability, we want you to join our talented and growing team!

In this role, you’ll:

• Help define the technical vision of the team/org, articulate how our data platform and architecture could evolve

• Design, implement, and optimize our high-performance, scalable data serving platform that enables data querying and consumption across the organization and external facing data products

• Design, implement, and optimize our high-performance, scalable data storage and transformation platform that enables both batch and stream processing with 100+ million updates per day on datasets > 100 billion rows

• Build seamless integrations between Data Cloud and various relational and noSQL OLTP databases

• Build batch and streaming data pipelines for core blockchain datasets widely used across the company

• Deploy cloud infrastructure at scale with enterprise-grade reliability, implement and maintain infrastructure automation and self-service, and create robust CI/CD pipelines

• Establish and maintain observability, security, and data governance solutions to ensure high quality, efficiency, and reliability of data pipelines

We’re looking for candidates who have:

• 6+ years of experience as a Data Engineer or Software Engineer or Infrastructure Engineer, with hands-on expertise in streaming data at scale.

• Experience in building and maintaining both batch and streaming data pipelines using Apache Spark/Apache Flink, as well as deep understanding of data modeling best practices

• Expertise with AWS services, cloud architecture, fault-tolerant distributed data systems, and proficiency with Terraform for provisioning and managing cloud infrastructure

• Deep understanding of modern data lakehouse architectures and ecosystem such as Databricks, Snowflake, DBT, Airflow, Debezium, Delta/Iceberg, StarRocks, Clickhouse, and proficient with Python (or similar) and SQL.

• Passion for leading/contributing towards the technical vision of the team/org, strong ownership of mission critical systems, dedication to honing their craft while mentoring others

• Experience building tools and frameworks to accelerate the development of data pipelines, and familiarity with data governance, data quality, and observability best practices

Nice to have Experience:

• Exposure to or interest in the cryptocurrency technology ecosystem

• Experience working with different blockchain technologies

Technologies we use:

• Data Lakehouse: Kafka, Flink, Spark, Databricks, DBT, Debezium, StarRocks/Clickhouse

• AWS Services: MSK, EC2, VPC, IAM, S3, SQS, Managed Flink, EKS, etc.

AI at Chainalysis
AI is not a feature at Chainalysis - it is a new way of working. One that turns instructions into work done, and helps us move faster than the threats we're built to counter, and we expect our employees to take ownership of the output and ensure quality. As the world's most trusted blockchain analytics platform, Chainalysis sits at a rare intersection of proprietary data, regulatory relationships and crypto expertise that makes it uniquely placed to shape and lead the next era of AI-driven intelligence - and we expect everyone here, regardless of role, to be an active part of it.

AI fluency is tied directly to how we measure performance and how we plan to win. There is no substitute for your own curiosity. We provide the tools, workflows, and space to experiment - but the expectation is that you develop these capabilities yourself, bring ideas, and collaborate across teams to reinvent the way work gets done. We are not using AI to do less. We are using it to do what was never possible before.

About Chainalysis

Chainalysis is the blockchain data platform, making it easy to connect the movement of digital assets to real-world services. Powered by deep blockchain data and AI, organizations can investigate illicit activity, manage risk exposure, and develop innovative market solutions built on the industry's most trusted blockchain intelligence. Our mission is to build trust in blockchains, blending safety and security with an unwavering commitment to growth and innovation.

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. We’re ensuring we keep learning by committing to continually revisit and reevaluate 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.