Senior Software Engineer Infrastructure

Chainalysis; Toronto; On-site; CAD 100,000 - 130,000; Full time

Job summary

A leading blockchain analysis firm is seeking a Senior Software Engineer, Infrastructure in Toronto to empower product teams by enhancing CI/CD capabilities and ensuring reliable, compliant infrastructure. The role involves modernizing legacy systems using Kubernetes and Terraform, enforcing security standards, and fostering a culture of ownership within engineering squads. Candidates should have DevOps and SRE experience, understanding of FinTech, and a passion for coaching teams. This is an excellent opportunity to impact innovative blockchain solutions.

Qualifications

• Strategic blend of DevOps, Infrastructure, and SRE principles.
• Experience with modernizing legacy systems.
• Understanding of FinTech or Enterprise SaaS challenges.
• Culture of shared ownership and coaching.

Responsibilities

• Empower teams to manage their CI/CD pipelines independently.
• Implement Infrastructure-as-Code for security and compliance.
• Ensure developers provision compliant infrastructure easily.
• Establish observability standards and Service Level Objectives.
• Coach team on debugging pipelines and basic infrastructure.

Skills

DevOps principles

Infrastructure expertise

Site Reliability Engineering (SRE)

CI/CD management

Kubernetes

Terraform

GitHub Actions

AWS

Tools

Kubernetes

GitHub Actions

Terraform

AWS

Java

Kafka

PostgreSQL

Job description

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 Denmark, UK, Canada, Israel, 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 create user facing products supported by a flexible and scalable data platform allowing us to adapt to those rapid changes and bring value to our customers.

The Compliance organization is focused on growing the crypto ecosystem by simplifying the work needed for compliance and risk management at a massive scale. The next stage of growth for our Compliance platform comes from the largest banks and payment processors in the world who will require the highest level of compliance, security, and reliability. We are looking for a Senior Software Engineer, Infrastructure to embed directly within our Product Engineering team. In this role, you will champion self‑service infrastructure, moving away from the model of a "sole owner" to one of shared responsibility.

Operating at the intersection of software development, infrastructure, and reliability, you will act as a force multiplier for the squad. You will partner with engineering teams to co‑design and modernize our toolchain, focusing on expediting feature delivery while simultaneously fortifying our systems to adhere to the exacting standards required by our new institutional clientele. You will also galvanize deeper collaboration between Platform and Product engineering teams.

In this role, you’ll:

• Empower the teams to own their release quality and build the tooling, automation, and guardrails that allow product engineers to manage their own CI/CD pipelines and deploy to production independently.
• Codify the standards for a TradFi‑ready foundation. Working collaboratively with the team, you defined and implemented the Infrastructure‑as‑Code patterns that meet our rigorous security and compliance needs.
• Ensure that compliant, secure‑by‑default infrastructure is easy for developers to provision, preventing you from becoming a bottleneck.
• Embed a culture of proactive reliability. You helped the team define their own Service Level Objectives (SLOs) and actionable alerts, by establishing clear observability standards, and give developers the visibility they need to own the health of their services and detect issues before our customers do.
• Successfully level up the team to be self‑sufficient in debugging pipelines and managing basic infrastructure.

We’re looking for candidates who have:

• A strategic blend of DevOps, Infrastructure, and SRE principles to set architectural patterns, guiding the team on how to build systems that balance velocity with reliability.
• Experience steering technical modernizations, helping teams migrate from legacy systems to modern standards (such as Kubernetes, IaC, and Github Actions) while maintaining product momentum.
• Thrive in an embedded model, enabling your squad to unblock themselves through better tooling and education while acting as a strategic bridge to the central Platform team.
• An understanding of the rigor of FinTech or Enterprise SaaS, knowing how to design system constraints for institutional clients where reliability is a contractual obligation.
• Foster a culture of shared ownership, preferring to coach engineers on operational best practices rather than functioning as a permanent support desk.

Technologies we work with:

Kubernetes, GitHub Actions, Terraform, AWS, Java, Kafka, PostgreSQL

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. We’re ensuring we keep learning by committing to continually revisit and reevaluate 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. We can’t wait to meet you.