Senior Security Engineer, Cloud & Kubernetes

Chainalysis; United States; Remote; USD 140,000 - 190,000; Full time

Job summary

Chainalysis is seeking a Senior Security Engineer, Infrastructure to secure and operate our cloud and Kubernetes environments supporting our products and Hosted AI Platform. You will pair production operations with security engineering, respond to platform alerts, troubleshoot infrastructure, and ship guardrails and improvements via Terraform and Kubernetes.

You will work with Infrastructure Security, Platform Engineering, AI Core, and other teams to address risks at the source and make secure

Qualifications

• Production cloud infrastructure experience, preferably AWS, with security controls such as IAM, networking, secrets, encryption or logging.
• Hands-on production Kubernetes experience: inspect workloads, read logs, troubleshoot failures.
• Experience authoring Terraform changes deployed to production via Git/Pull Requests.
• Production on-call or incident-response experience, including alert investigation and escalation.
• Python or similar scripting ability; familiarity with monitoring/logging tools.
• Experience collaborating with R&D teams to resolve security issues with urgency.

Responsibilities

• Troubleshoot Kubernetes workloads and cloud services; investigate health, logs, latency, and upstream issues to find root causes.
• Ship reviewed Terraform and Kubernetes changes that strengthen HAIP and cloud security/reliability.
• Improve AWS and edge/network controls (IAM, networking, secrets, encryption, logging, Cloudflare) and reduce misconfigurations with reusable patterns.
• Automate operational tasks using Python and cross-team collaboration to drive fixes to completion.
• Participate in AI Product on-call rotation; triage production alerts and escalate when needed.

Skills

Production cloud infra

Kubernetes

Python scripting

Incident response

Security controls (IAM, networking)

On-call experience

Tools

Terraform

Git

Cloudflare

Wiz

SonarCloud

Kubernetes

Job description

Chainalysis is seeking a Senior Security Engineer, Infrastructure to secure and operate our cloud and Kubernetes environments supporting our products and Hosted AI Platform. You will pair production operations with security engineering, respond to platform alerts, troubleshoot infrastructure, and ship guardrails and improvements via Terraform and Kubernetes.

You will work with Infrastructure Security, Platform Engineering, AI Core, and other teams to address risks at the source and make secure