Chainalysis · 4 months ago
Senior Backend Engineer, Data Solutions
New York Office
Full-time
Onsite
Senior Level
$160K/yr - $195K/yrChainalysis is a company leveraging blockchain technology to provide insights and solutions for businesses and governments. They are seeking a Senior Backend Engineer for their Data Solutions team to design and deliver platform capabilities, enhance data services, and mentor engineers while ensuring high performance and scalability of backend systems.
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Responsibilities
Design and lead delivery of new platform capabilities that serve mission‑critical investigations and monitoring workflows
Operate services that ingest, transform, and serve hundreds of terabytes of data with clear SLOs for latency, freshness, and availability
Improve the scalability, performance, and cost efficiency of our data plane and APIs
Raise the quality bar across reliability, security, and compliance for both cloud and on‑premises deployments
Mentor engineers across teams and influence technical strategy beyond your immediate group
Own and evolve backend services powering customer‑facing APIs, usage/billing, alerting, and data observability
Lead team and cross-team initiatives end‑to‑end: discovery, architecture, implementation, rollout, and post‑launch learning
Architect event‑driven and streaming workflows (e.g., Kafka) with strong data contracts and schema evolution
Drive operational excellence: SLOs, runbooks, on‑call, incident reviews, and capacity plans for high‑QPS systems
Partner with product, data engineering/science, and security to translate customer requirements into durable systems
Qualification
Required
Expert backend engineering experience building cloud‑hosted services and data pipelines on AWS or GCP (bonus: both)
Deep proficiency with APIs, streaming systems, and distributed systems (e.g., microservices on Kubernetes)
Demonstrated ownership of systems operating at scale (hundreds to thousands of RPS; TB–PB data volumes)
High judgment on reliability, security, and cost, with a track record of measurable improvements
Ability to lead without authority—mentoring, design reviews, and cross‑org influence
Preferred
Blockchain domain knowledge (protocol fundamentals; smart contracts/Solidity)
Databricks experience (Spark, Delta Lake, Delta Live Tables) or PySpark at scale
Multi‑tenant, usage tracking, and billing systems experience
On‑premises or regulated/air‑gapped deployments
Company
Chainalysis
Chainalysis provides blockchain data and analysis to governments, banks, and businesses worldwide.
Founded in 2014
501-1000 employees
H1B Sponsorship
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2021 (7)
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Funding
Current Stage
Late StageTotal Funding
$536.62MKey Investors
C1FundHaun VenturesGIC
2025-10-16Series Unknown
2024-04-08Secondary Market
2022-10-18Secondary Market
Leadership Team
Andrew McGonnigle
Senior Director, Demand Generation
Brian Park
Global Partners Solution Architect
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