Manager Engineering, Compliance Core

The role

You will lead the Compliance Core team to modernize a platform that evaluates blockchain risk and monitors activity. This role involves technical leadership, team development, and managing delivery and operational health.

What you will do

• Lead the platform's modernization and set technical direction.
• Make architectural trade-offs and manage incremental migrations.
• Review code and write or challenge design documents.
• Contribute prototypes or targeted fixes.
• Work with engineers to resolve technical problems and production incidents.
• Hire engineers and manage performance and career growth.
• Work with Product and upstream teams to turn customer needs into a roadmap.
• Set standards for reliability, latency, throughput, and data correctness.
• Improve observability, testing, incident response, and on-call practices.

Required qualifications

• Experience building and operating high-throughput, event-driven distributed systems.
• Strong hands-on engineering judgment.
• Experience managing engineers, including coaching, performance management, and career development.
• Track record of delivering complex technical initiatives across teams.
• Collaborative leadership style.
• Interest in blockchain and cryptocurrencies, or eagerness to learn.

Nice to have

• Experience modernizing or migrating critical production systems while maintaining service continuity.
• Familiarity with JVM services in production.
• Experience operating customer-facing systems with strict latency and availability requirements.
• Background in compliance, payments, fraud, or another regulated domain.
• Blockchain protocol knowledge.

About the company

Chainalysis is a blockchain data platform that connects the movement of digital assets to real-world services. The company uses blockchain data and AI to help organizations investigate illicit activity and manage risk exposure.