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Sei Labs is a NYC-based unicorn startup building Sei, the fastest EVM blockchain designed for trading. The company is incubating a new US-regulated exchange and seeking its first Trade Surveillance Analyst to serve as a founding member of the Derivatives Clearing Member's (DCM) market regulation function.
In this hands-on role, you will monitor real-time and post-trade activity for potential manipulation, fraud, and disruptive trading practices including spoofing, layering, wash trading, pre-arranged trading, and position-limit breaches. You will triage and investigate alerts in the surveillance platform, reconstructing orders and trades to determine whether alerts represent errors, false positives, or potential violations. You will run participant inquiry workflows, including broker explanation requests, and work directly with FCMs and clearing members to gather information and resolve cases.
You will escalate potential rule violations and prepare well-documented case files for review, enforcement, and regulatory inquiries under the direction of the head of trade surveillance and/or market regulation. As the exchange scales, you will help design case-management flows, alert tuning, and automation. You will contribute to written surveillance procedures and DCM Core Principle readiness ahead of launch. The role includes ownership of high-volume first-line alert review with a clear path to broader investigative ownership and team leadership as the function grows. You will participate in 24/7 market coverage, which may include scheduled weekend or off-hours rotations.
This is a founding-member opportunity with startup speed and ownership, backed by an established company and an experienced team with backgrounds from Robinhood, Coinbase, Google, and similar firms.
REQUIREMENTS:
- 2–5+ years in trade or market surveillance at an exchange or regulator (DCM, national securities exchange, CFTC, SEC, NFA, or FINRA) strongly preferred; trading compliance experience at an FCM, broker-dealer, or trading firm strongly considered.
- Hands-on experience investigating surveillance alerts, ideally in Nasdaq SMARTS or comparable platforms (Eventus Validus, TT Score, NICE Actimize, Solidus, b-next).
- Working knowledge of manipulative and disruptive trading patterns and how to evidence them.
- Experience with digital assets and digital assets investigations, as well as traditional financial instruments and futures or other derivatives, including 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; you will deal directly with external FCMs and clearing members.
- 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 and comply with information barrier, conflict-of-interest, and personal trading policies, including restrictions on trading in markets you surveil.
NICE TO HAVE:
- 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 as the function scales.
