Manager Engineering, Compliance Core
Chainalysis Careers · New York Office
About this role
## About the role Chainalysis is looking for an **Engineering Manager** to lead the **Compliance Core** team and help shape the next generation of its real-time blockchain risk platform. Compliance Core builds and operates the platform customers rely on to **evaluate blockchain risk in real time** and **continuously monitor activity across billions of transfers**. You’ll help decide what to evolve, rebuild, or retire—while keeping systems reliable for every customer. This role combines hands-on technical leadership with responsibility for team growth, delivery, and operational health. ## What you’ll do - **Lead platform modernization**: Set technical direction, make architectural trade-offs, and turn complex changes into incremental migrations with clear milestones and safe rollouts. - **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. - **Own delivery with partners**: Work with Product and upstream teams to turn customer needs and industry changes into an executable roadmap. - **Make production operations sustainable**: Set standards for reliability, latency, throughput, and data correctness; improve observability, testing, incident response, and on-call practices. ## What we’re looking for - Experience building and operating **high-throughput, event-driven distributed systems**. - Strong hands-on engineering judgment—able to work through implementation details, identify real constraints, and guide sound architectural decisions. - Experience managing engineers (coaching, performance management, career development) with evidence of improving team effectiveness and engineering quality. - A track record delivering complex technical initiatives across teams—breaking ambiguous problems into manageable steps and balancing immediate customer needs with long-term platform investment. - Collaborative leadership: you welcome challenges, explain decisions, and help engineers develop judgment and ownership. - 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. ## About Chainalysis & AI At Chainalysis, **AI is not a feature—it’s a new way of working**. We expect employees to take ownership of outcomes and ensure quality. We provide tools and space to experiment, but the expectation is that you build AI fluency through curiosity and collaboration. ## Equal opportunity Chainalysis is committed to diversity and inclusion. If you need accommodations for the interview process due to a disability, you can request them here: https://go.chainalysis.com/rs/503-FAP-074/images/Interview%20Accommodations%20Request.pdf
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