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Chainalysis is seeking an Engineering Manager to lead the Compliance Core team, which builds and operates the platform that customers rely on to evaluate blockchain risk in real time and continuously monitor activity across billions of transfers. This role combines hands-on technical leadership with responsibility for team growth, delivery, and operational health.
In this role, you will lead the platform's modernization by setting technical direction with the team, making architectural trade-offs, and turning complex changes into incremental migrations with clear milestones and safe rollouts. You'll stay hands-on by reviewing code, writing and challenging design documents, contributing prototypes or targeted fixes, and working directly with engineers to resolve difficult technical problems and production incidents.
You'll build and develop the team by hiring exceptional engineers, setting clear expectations, providing candid feedback, managing performance, and supporting career growth. You'll create an environment where people can challenge ideas, take ownership, and do their best work.
You'll own delivery with your partners by working with Product and upstream teams to turn customer needs and industry changes into an executable roadmap. You'll make priorities, dependencies, and trade-offs explicit, and follow through on commitments.
You'll make production operations sustainable by setting standards for reliability, latency, throughput, and data correctness. You'll improve observability, testing, incident response, and on-call practices so the platform can scale.
Chainalysis emphasizes AI fluency as a core competency across all roles. The company expects employees to take ownership of AI-driven outputs, develop these capabilities independently, bring ideas, and collaborate across teams to reinvent how work gets done.
REQUIREMENTS:
- Experience building and operating high-throughput, event-driven distributed systems
- Strong hands-on engineering judgment; ability to work through implementation details, identify real constraints in a design, and help the team make sound architectural decisions
- Experience managing engineers, including coaching, performance management, and career development, with evidence of improving both team effectiveness and engineering quality
- Track record of delivering complex technical initiatives across teams, breaking ambiguous problems into manageable steps, and balancing immediate customer needs with longer-term platform investment
- Collaborative leadership style: welcome challenges, explain decisions, and help engineers develop judgment and ownership to lead work themselves
- 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
