Software Engineer, Data Cloud

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 the UK, Denmark, Canada, and 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 build a flexible platform that will allow us to adapt to those rapid changes.

We’re looking for Software Engineers 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 player in creating and optimizing our data platform and data processing systems. If you’re passionate about infrastructure automation, cloud services, and building scalable platforms to enable next‑gen real‑time streaming data applications, we want you to join our talented and growing team!

In this role, you’ll:

• 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.

We’re looking for candidates who have:

• 3+ years of experience as a Data Platform Engineer or 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 Experience:

• Exposure to or interest in the cryptocurrency technology ecosystem.
• Experience working with different blockchain technologies is a plus.
• Experience with a SaaS or FinTech company.

Technologies we use:

• AWS Services: MSK, EC2, VPC, IAM, S3, SQS, Managed Flink, EKS.
• Data Lakehouse: Kafka, Flink, Spark, Databricks, DBT, Debezium.

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. 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.