Sr. DevOps Engineer, Advanced Analytics

The global financial ecosystem is changing. Revolutionary blockchain technology has unlocked the potential for people around the world to have more equal access to wealth and information. This transformation has begun with the mass global adoption of cryptocurrencies but like all new financial systems, it needs greater trust to realize its full potential and remain safe from bad actors. That’s where we come in. The Chainalysis blockchain data platform enables businesses, governments, and banks to solve the world’s most high-profile criminal cases, paving the way for an economy built on blockchains.

The Engineers at Chainalysis are driven by working on new technical challenges every day. Relentless problem-solvers and big dreamers, we’re creating the building blocks for future blockchain technologies.

The DevOps Engineer embedded on our Advanced Analytics team is responsible for innovating novel approaches to enriching public blockchain data and coordinating fusions of data across the data lake.. They champion infrastructure best-practices and influence team goals and product roadmaps, all while optimizing our infrastructure and development workflows. We measure success by how well you’ve enabled the team to safely operate with little to no intervention.

In one year you’ll know you were successful if…

• Ensure observability and business continuity of our systems
• Contribute to our Advanced Analytics cloud architecture and data lakes
• You’ve streamlined data ingest pipelines to maximize the flow of data
• Have established and improved serverless systems and S3 type data storage
• Hardened production systems (maintained uptime targets, graceful degradation, self-healing and automated recovery)
• Worked closely with Information Security to improve the systems used to test releases for security issues
• Established objective measures of done and documented assumptions

A Background Like This Helps

• Experience in one or more of the following: Java, Scala, Golang, Python, or shell scripting
• Prior success implementing infrastructure as code including pipelines as code (Terraform, Helm, Ansible, Jenkins), and containerization technologies (Docker, Kubernetes)
• Experience monitoring production systems (DataDog, Prometheus)
• Experience with cloud architecture (AWS, GCP)
• Experience with streaming pipelines (Kafka, Spark)
• Blockchain P2P Node and Networking Fundamentals
• Experience with tuning RDBMSs (ideally PostgreSQL)

A general understanding of popular Blockchain technologies would differentiate you:

• Bitcoin and/or other UTXO based Protocols (Litecoin, Bitcoin Cash, ZCash, Dash)
• Ethereum and/or other Account based Protocols (EOS, Stellar, Cardano, Tron)

The base salary range for this role is $133,700 to $167,100 on a national basis and may be higher or lower depending on the location of the role. Base salary is just one part of our total rewards package which additionally includes equity, performance bonus or commissions for eligible roles, and competitive benefits. Individual pay decisions are based on a number of factors, including qualifications for the role, relevant work experience, skillset, internal equity, and other factors, consistent with applicable law.

At Chainalysis, we help government agencies, cryptocurrency businesses, and financial institutions track and investigate illicit activity on the blockchain, allowing them to engage confidently with cryptocurrency. We take care of our people with great benefits, professional development opportunities, and fun.

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, Juneteenth, Harvey Milk Day, and International Migrant’s 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. Additionally, 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.

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Chainalysis COVID-19 Policy - USA

All employees are required to have or obtain a COVID-19 vaccination as a condition of employment at Chainalysis, unless an exemption has been approved. All employees shall be required to report their vaccine status. All new employees shall be required to provide proof of their vaccination status prior to the start of their employment.

Chainalysis COVID-19 Policy - EMEA

As an employer, Chainalysis is obliged to ensure a healthy and safe working environment. This means that we must try to prevent the coronavirus from spreading inside the workplace and all employees are obliged to follow the local regulations issued by the relevant health authorities.

• To help support a safe work environment, we encourage all employees in EMEA to get fully vaccinated against COVID-19.
• Employees will not be required to attend an event or in-person customer meeting.
• Employees in the EU and the UK are allowed to travel internationally for internal meetings to any country deemed “green or amber” by the EU and the UK authorities. All attendees for Chainalysis in-person events or meetings will be required to adhere to the following guidelines:
  • International travel will only be permitted if you receive approval from both your manager and Executive Leader
  • You must familiarize yourself and comply with any screening/safety protocols imposed by the entity/individual hosting the in-person meeting or event
  • You must comply with any and all safety guidelines and travel restrictions established by applicable law
  • If you are in close or proximate contact with others at the event/customer site and test positive for COVID-19, you must immediately notify the People Team and avoid contact with others for 10 days

Chainalysis COVID-19 Policy - APAC

With circumstances changing on a regular basis and parts of our APAC team going in and out of mandatory lockdown, APAC will continue to follow country legislation and guidelines.

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