Senior On-Chain Protocols Data Engineer

The Data Solutions/Transpose team is an exciting new member of the Chainalysis family, working to deliver a cutting edge blockchain intelligence platform used by the world’s foremost intelligence, law enforcement, tax, and regulatory agencies, alongside many market leaders in the private sector.  Our technology is used to automate and simplify solutions to complex investigations, provide real-time threat actor monitoring, give insight into the topology of threat landscapes, and much more.

As an On-Chain Protocols Data Engineer, you’ll work with our data team to expand our understanding of the on-chain protocol ecosystem at large.  You will be responsible for services that constantly monitor all of the world’s most popular blockchains and watch for any new smart contract activity that may occur.  When this activity happens, our pipelines index, extract, standardize, and organize all of the information retrieved from on-chain across dozens of categories, including DEXes, Bridges, Staking and Lending protocols, and many more. Together, these pipelines form the basis of the world’s most comprehensive blockchain intelligence layer.

In this role, you’ll:

• Work as part of our On-Chain Protocols team to develop and maintain data pipelines responsible for indexing, categorizing, standardizing, and organizing all smart contract events that occur on-chain.

• Collaborate to define the roadmap for new chain and new protocol onboarding efforts into these systems.

• Design the schema and structure of datasets for use by our customers.

• Lead and contribute to efforts to improve the scalability, reliability, and efficiency of these data indexing systems (new protocols, new chains, etc.).

• Explore new opportunities for integrating emerging technologies (artificial intelligence, machine learning, large language models) into the on-chain protocol indexing modality.

• Work with our Data Engineering team to optimize the core database layer (schemas, indexes, etc.) to improve dataset usability.

We’re looking for candidates who have:

• Strong development experience in Python

• Excellent SQL Skills

• Knowledge of OLTP and OLAP database technologies

• A deep understanding of on-chain protocols/smart contracts

  • What is an RPC call?

  • What is a topic0?

  • What is a log/trace?

• A passion for the web3/crypto & DeFi ecosystem

Nice to have experience:

• Experience deploying workloads in Kubernetes

• Experience with developing ETL pipelines

• Experience with Databricks

• Experience with PostgreSQL

• Experience reading & writing Solidity

• Experience integrating large language models into software systems

• Experience with TheGraph (or writing subgraphs in general)

Technologies we use: 

• Python

• SQL (PostgreSQL, Databricks)

• Kubernetes

• Databricks

• Etherscan/blockchain explorers

• Redis

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.