Trade Surveillance Analyst

The role

You will monitor trading activity on the exchange and investigate alerts. You will help build the surveillance program, procedures, and tooling.

What you will do

• Monitor real-time and post-trade activity for potential manipulation, fraud and disruptive trading practices.
• Triage and investigate alerts in the surveillance platform.
• Reconstruct orders and trades.
• Run participant inquiry workflows and work with FCMs and clearing members.
• Escalate potential rule violations and prepare case files.
• Help design case-management flow, alert tuning and automation.
• Contribute to written surveillance procedures.
• Own high-volume first-line alert review.
• Participate in coverage for a 24/7 market, which may include scheduled weekend or off-hours rotations.

Required qualifications

• Hands-on experience investigating surveillance alerts.
• Working knowledge of manipulative and disruptive trading patterns and how to evidence them.
• Experience with digital assets and digital assets investigations.
• Experience with traditional financial instruments and futures or other derivatives.
• Experience with on-chain analysis and forensic tracing of wallets and fund flows using tools such as Chainalysis, TRM Labs, or Elliptic.
• Clear, professional written and verbal communication.
• Strong attention to detail and disciplined documentation habits.
• Comfort with ambiguity, shifting priorities and building process where none exists yet.
• Ability to work from approved security devices and environments.
• Ability to comply with information barrier, conflict-of-interest, and personal trading policies.

Nice to have

• 2–5+ years in trade or market surveillance at an exchange or regulator
• trading compliance experience at an FCM, broker-dealer, or trading firm
• experience in Nasdaq SMARTS or a comparable platform (Eventus Validus, TT Score, NICE Actimize, Solidus, b-next)
• SQL, Python or other data tooling for analysis and automating repetitive surveillance work
• Experience with 24/7 markets, or crypto derivatives
• Exposure to CFTC/NFA regulation, DCM Core Principles or rule-enforcement reviews
• Interest in growing into a team lead or manager role

About the company

Sei Labs is a unicorn startup building Sei, the fastest EVM blockchain in the world designed for trading. They are incubating a new US regulated exchange.