Note: The job is a remote job and is open to candidates in USA. Chainalysis is a blockchain data platform focused on building trust in cryptocurrencies. They are seeking a Senior Data Engineer to join their Data Cloud team, responsible for creating and optimizing petabyte-scale data storage and processing platforms to enable high-performance analytics and data applications.
Responsibilities
- Help define the technical vision of the team/org, articulate how our data platform and architecture could evolve
- Design, implement, and optimize our high-performance, scalable data serving platform that enables data querying and consumption across the organization and external facing data products
- Design, implement, and optimize our high-performance, scalable data storage and transformation platform that enables both batch and stream processing with 100+ million updates per day on datasets > 100 billion rows
- Build seamless integrations between Data Cloud and various relational and noSQL OLTP databases
- Build batch and streaming data pipelines for core blockchain datasets widely used across the company
- Deploy cloud infrastructure at scale with enterprise-grade reliability, implement and maintain infrastructure automation and self-service, and create robust CI/CD pipelines
- Establish and maintain observability, security, and data governance solutions to ensure high quality, efficiency, and reliability of data pipelines
Skills
- 6+ years of experience as a Data Engineer or Software Engineer or Infrastructure Engineer, with hands-on expertise in streaming data at scale
- Experience in building and maintaining both batch and streaming data pipelines using Apache Spark/Apache Flink, as well as deep understanding of data modeling best practices
- Expertise with AWS services, cloud architecture, fault-tolerant distributed data systems, and proficiency with Terraform for provisioning and managing cloud infrastructure
- Deep understanding of modern data lakehouse architectures and ecosystem such as Databricks, Snowflake, DBT, Airflow, Debezium, Delta/Iceberg, StarRocks, Clickhouse, and proficient with Python (or similar) and SQL
- Passion for leading/contributing towards the technical vision of the team/org, strong ownership of mission critical systems, dedication to honing their craft while mentoring others
- Experience building tools and frameworks to accelerate the development of data pipelines, and familiarity with data governance, data quality, and observability best practices
- Exposure to or interest in the cryptocurrency technology ecosystem
- Experience working with different blockchain technologies
Company Overview
Chainalysis provides blockchain data and analysis to governments, banks, and businesses worldwide. It was founded in 2014, and is headquartered in New York, New York, USA, with a workforce of 501-1000 employees. Its website is https://chainalysis.com.Company H1B Sponsorship
Chainalysis has a track record of offering H1B sponsorships, with 10 in 2025, 8 in 2024, 20 in 2023, 23 in 2022, 7 in 2021, 1 in 2020. Please note that this does not guarantee sponsorship for this specific role.