Senior Software Engineer, Nodes Infrastructure

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. 

The Nodes Infrastructure team at Chainalysis operates with the primary goal of building a robust, scalable, and efficient platform for onboarding new blockchain networks. This team is a part of the Network Lifecycle Management Team (NLM) and collaborates closely with the Developer Platform team to leverage provided primitives. A successful engineer for our nodes infrastructure team brings expertise in various areas including AWS services, Kubernetes and data streaming technologies. You’ll possess strong problem-solving skills and a proactive approach to addressing challenges, with additional knowledge of security best practices in a cloud environment.

In this role, you’ll: 

• Operate and evolve highly available and performant engineering platform services such Kubernetes, Artifactory and CICD Platforms

• Enable Blockchain Foundations teams to avoid hand-offs through self-serve engineering platform services

• Reduce the barriers for protocol engineers at Chainalysis to deploy new blockchain networks

• Champion best practices for monitoring and observability

• Harden production systems (maintain uptime targets, graceful degradation, self-healing, automated recovery and security requirements) 

• Share innovative ideas and contribute to the team roadmap

• Work with Information Security to improve the systems used to test releases for security issues 

• Develop best practices around use of cloud technology (AWS, Kubernetes, Kafka).

We’re looking for candidates who have:  

• An understanding of AWS services and technologies such as IAM, S3,  EC2, EKS, RDS, and Lambda

• Hands-on experience with infrastructure as code (IaC) and CI/CD pipelines

• Strong coding experience with GoLang, Java or Python.

• Experience running, maintaining and troubleshooting tooling to automate common development processes, reducing the manual effort required to execute tasks. 

• Experience monitoring production systems (DataDog, Prometheus, etc.)

• Excellent problem-solving skills and a proactive approach to addressing challenges.

• Expertise in AWS, Terraform, and Kubernetes.

• Streaming experience with Kafka, Kinesis or similar

Nice to have experience: 

• Experience in the blockchain or cryptocurrency industry - or a strong desire to learn (we can help!).

• Knowledge of security best practices in a cloud environment.

Technologies we use & teach:

• AWS, Terraform, Kubernetes, GO, Kafka, Kinesis, Datadog, Prometheus, GitHub Actions.

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.