Software Engineer II, Investigations

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, 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.

As a Software Engineer within Investigations, you’ll join a team of other engineers and share the responsibility of providing the right tools for the right data in order to build best in class customer experiences for our customers. Thus, you’ll find the opportunity to lead, build and maintain new customer facing web frontend features as well as the services backing them. Part of this responsibility is also to learn and understand the underlying data platform, in order to partner with product managers and designers to deliver impactful solutions to our customers.

Please note that there are specific requirements for this specific role:
You must be a U.S. Citizen and you must be based in the Eastern Time Zone of the U.S.

In this role, you’ll:

• Develop and maintain backend services primarily using Spring-based Java frameworks.

• Monitor and maintain deployed features and services using tools like Datadog and Humio.

• Collaborate closely with design and product teams to ship and iterate on software features.

• Contribute to the development and maintenance of our cloud infrastructure using AWS and tools like Terraform, Terragrunt, and CloudFormation.

• Assist with the deployment and management of microservices applications on Kubernetes clusters.

We’re looking for candidates who have:

• Experience with object-oriented programming languages, particularly Java.

• Familiarity with cloud platforms, ideally AWS.

• Understanding of infrastructure as code (IaC) concepts and tools.

• Ability to work effectively in a collaborative team environment.

• Strong problem-solving and analytical skills.

Nice to have experience:

• Experience with modern Kubernetes practices, including controllers and operator patterns, is a plus. Familiarity with managing databases within a Kubernetes environment is also beneficial.

• Experience with PostgreSQL maintenance and performance tuning including optimizing query plans and tuning settings.

Technologies we use: 

• Kubernetes

• AWS Cloud 

• Terraform 

• Ansible

• Postgres

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. Some of the ways we’re ensuring we keep learning are an internal Diversity Committee, Days of Reflection throughout the year including International Women’s Day, Harvey Milk Day, World Humanitarian Day, and UN International Migrants Day, and a commitment to continue revisiting and reevaluating 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.