Manager Engineering, Compliance Core

As a Manager Engineering at Chainalysis, you will lead the Compliance Core team, which builds and operates the platform that customers rely on to evaluate blockchain risk in real time and monitor activity across billions of transfers. You'll combine hands-on technical leadership with responsibility for the team's growth, delivery, and operational health, helping decide what to evolve, rebuild, or retire while keeping systems reliable for every customer.

What you'll do

• Lead the platform's modernization by setting technical direction with the team, making architectural trade-offs, and turning 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 by hiring exceptional engineers, setting clear expectations, providing candid feedback, managing performance, and supporting career growth.
• Own delivery with your partners by working with Product and upstream teams to turn customer needs and industry changes into an executable roadmap, making priorities, dependencies, and trade-offs explicit.
• Make production operations sustainable by setting standards for reliability, latency, throughput, and data correctness, and improving observability, testing, incident response, and on-call practices.

What you bring

• Experience building and operating high-throughput, event-driven distributed systems.
• Strong hands-on engineering judgment: you can work through implementation details, identify real constraints in a design, and help the team make sound architectural decisions.
• Experience managing engineers, including coaching, performance management, and career development, with evidence of improving both team effectiveness and engineering quality.
• A track record of delivering complex technical initiatives across teams, breaking ambiguous problems into manageable steps, and balancing immediate customer needs with longer-term platform investment.
• A collaborative leadership style: you welcome challenges, explain your decisions, and help engineers develop the judgment and ownership to lead work themselves.
• 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

Chainalysis is the blockchain data platform that makes it easy to connect the movement of digital assets to real-world services. Powered by deep blockchain data and AI, the company helps organizations investigate illicit activity, manage risk exposure, and develop innovative market solutions.