Manager Engineering, Compliance Core

Chainalysis; Northern, New York (KY, NY); Hybrid; USD 140,000 - 190,000; Full time

Job summary

Chainalysis is seeking an Engineering Manager to lead the Compliance Core platform, guiding modernization and reliability for real-time blockchain risk evaluation across billions of transfers. You’ll shape the next generation of the platform and ensure scalable operations for customers worldwide.

You will review designs, contribute prototypes, hire engineers, and partner with Product and upstream teams to deliver an executable roadmap.

Qualifications

• Experience building and operating high-throughput, event-driven distributed systems.
• Proven ability to coach and develop engineers.
• Track record delivering complex initiatives across teams.

Responsibilities

• Lead modernization of the platform with a clear roadmap.
• Review code, prototype fixes, and resolve production incidents.
• Hire engineers and manage performance and growth.
• Translate customer needs into executable plans with product teams.
• Improve observability, testing, and on-call practices for reliability.

Skills

Distributed systems

Hands-on leadership

People management

Architectural decision making

Tools

JVM services

Job description

The engineering team at Chainalysis is inspired by solving the hardest technical challenges and building products that establish trust in cryptocurrencies. We're a global organization that thrives on challenging work and doing it alongside exceptionally talented teammates. Our industry evolves rapidly, and our mission is to build a flexible, AI-driven platform that automates entity resolution, optimizes data labeling pipelines, and creates predictive models that identify illicit patterns before they elevate.

Compliance Core builds and operates the platform that customers rely on to evaluate blockchain risk in real time and continuously monitor activity across billions of transfers. Our systems screen transfers and withdrawals, reassess exposure as new information arrives, aggregate risk at the user and organization level, and power datasets used by other teams and customers.

We’re looking for an Engineering Manager to lead the team and shape the next generation of this platform. You’ll help decide what to evolve, rebuild, or retire, and sequence those changes while keeping our systems reliable for every customer. This role combines hands‑on technical leadership with responsibility for the team’s growth, delivery, and operational health.

In this role, you’ll:

• Lead the platform’s modernization. Set technical direction with the team, make architectural trade‑offs, and turn complex changes into incremental migrations with clear milestones and safe roll‑outs.
• Stay hands‑on. Review code, write and challenge design documents, contribute prototypes or targeted fixes, and work directly with engineers to resolve difficult technical problems and production incidents.
• Build and develop the team. Hire exceptional engineers, set clear expectations, provide candid feedback, manage performance, and support career growth. Create an environment where people can challenge ideas, take ownership, and do their best work.
• Own delivery with your partners. Work with Product and upstream teams to turn customer needs and industry changes into an executable roadmap. Make priorities, dependencies, and trade‑offs explicit, and follow through on commitments.
• Make production operations sustainable. Set standards for reliability, latency, throughput, and data correctness. Improve observability, testing, incident response, and on‑call practices so the platform can scale

We’re looking for candidates who have:

• Experience building and operating high‑throughput, event‑driven distributed systems
• Strong hands‑on engineering judgment. You can work through implementation details, identify the 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.
• A 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.
• A collaborative leadership style: you welcome challenges, explain your decisions, and help engineers develop the 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.

AI at Chainalysis

AI is not a feature at Chainalysis – it is a new way of working. One that turns instructions into work done, and helps us move faster than the threats we’re built to counter, and we expect our employees to take ownership of the output and ensure quality. As the world’s most trusted blockchain analytics platform, Chainalysis sits at a rare intersection of proprietary data, regulatory relationships and crypto expertise that makes it uniquely placed to shape and lead the next era of AI‑driven intelligence – and we expect everyone here, regardless of role, to be an active part of it.

AI fluency is tied directly to how we measure performance and how we plan to win. There is no substitute for your own curiosity. We provide the tools, workflows, and space to experiment – but the expectation is that you develop these capabilities yourself, bring ideas, and collaborate across teams to reinvent the way work gets done. We are not using AI to do less. We are using it to do what was never possible before.

About Chainalysis

Chainalysis is the blockchain data platform, making it easy to connect the movement of digital assets to real‑world services. Powered by deep blockchain data and AI, organizations can investigate illicit activity, manage risk exposure, and develop innovative market solutions built on the industry's most trusted blockchain intelligence. Our mission is to build trust in blockchains, blending safety and security with an unwavering commitment to growth and innovation.

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. You can learn more here. We can’t wait to meet you.