Senior Infrastructure Engineer, Investigations

The Senior Infrastructure Engineer will be a key member of our Investigations team, responsible for designing, deploying, and maintaining the infrastructure that supports our blockchain data ingestion and analysis platforms. This role requires a strong background in cloud infrastructure, DevOps practices, and a deep understanding of blockchain technologies.

In this role, you’ll:

• Design and develop scalable, reliable, and secure infrastructure using AWS and other cloud services.

• Implement and manage infrastructure as code using tools like Terraform, ensuring consistent and repeatable deployments.

• Administer and scale Kubernetes clusters to support our microservices architecture.

• Develop and optimize CI/CD pipelines using tools such as Jenkins and GitHub Actions to ensure efficient and secure code deployment.

• Implement robust monitoring and logging solutions to ensure the health and performance of our infrastructure.

• Collaborate closely with cross-functional teams, including security, product, and other engineering teams, to ensure seamless integration and operation of infrastructure services.

• Apply security best practices to all aspects of infrastructure management, ensuring compliance with industry standards and regulations.

• Provide input into long-term platform requirements and operational guidelines with a focus on developer productivity and reliability.

• Continuously raise our standard of engineering excellence by implementing best practices for coding, testing, and deployment.

• Build and maintain documentation around processes and workflows.  

We’re looking for candidate who have:

• 5+ years of experience in infrastructure engineering, with a focus on cloud environments (AWS preferred).

• Proficiency in Terraform, Kubernetes, Docker, and CI/CD tools (Jenkins, GitHub Actions).

• Experience with scripting languages such as Python or Bash for automation tasks.

• Experience with additional monitoring and logging tools like Prometheus, Grafana, Datadog. 

• Experience with Infrastructure-as-Code (e.g. Terraform, Pulumi, Chef, Puppet, etc).

Nice to Have experience

• Understanding of blockchain technologies and experience working with blockchain data systems.

• Experience designing and operating large-scale, multi-region production systems.

• Experience with running production services on bare-metal.

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.