[Hiring] Senior Software Engineer @Chainalysis

Role Description

The engineering team at Chainalysis is inspired by solving the hardest technical challenges and creating products that build trust in cryptocurrencies. We’re looking to bring onboard a Senior Software Engineer with deep PostgreSQL and Java Spring Boot experience who executes high-impact projects and is excited about building at a significant scale!

• Own and improve our data ingest Java service for enriched transfers generation and aggregations.
• Design and tune PostgreSQL transaction batching, indexing, and replication strategies.
• Contribute to the next-generation architecture, evaluating a wide stack of cutting-edge technologies.
• Run PoCs, benchmark latency, and write ADRs to contribute to delivering the next generation to PROD.
• Build and maintain scalable API services on AWS that handle thousands of requests per second.
• Help automate network onboarding end-to-end.
• Debug production issues across microservices, define SLOs, and participate in the on-call rotation.
• Integrate LLM-based tools into daily engineering work and build agentic automation for operational tasks.

Qualifications

• 8+ years with PostgreSQL in production: schema design, query optimization, partitioning, replication, and performance tuning under write-heavy, high-throughput workloads.
• 8+ years building Java Spring Boot services: REST APIs, JDBC, connection pooling, and JVM performance profiling.
• Experience with Kafka or equivalent streaming systems: consumer groups, offset management, and partition lag debugging.
• Track record operating distributed systems on AWS: microservices, multi-silo deployments, Terraform.
• Strong cross-system debugging skills: tracing a serving delay from a Datadog metric to a Humio log to a code path.
• Comfort with AI-assisted development and agentic engineering practices.
• A bias to ship and iterate alongside product and design partners.
• A genuine excitement for significantly scaling large data systems.

Requirements

• Core (experience required):
• PostgreSQL
• Java Spring
• Kafka
• Expected familiarity:
• AWS
• Kubernetes
• Terraform
• Python
• Github including Github Actions
• DataDog
• Humio
• PagerDuty
• Nice to have:
• Database migration experience (evaluating and cutting over between storage systems).
• Flink, Spark, or lakehouse formats (Delta Lake, Iceberg, Parquet).
• Kubernetes operations (StatefulSets, HelmReleases, stateful workloads).
• Mentoring engineers and driving technical decisions through RFCs/ADRs.
• Interest in the cryptocurrency.

Benefits

• AI fluency is tied directly to how we measure performance and how we plan to win.
• We provide the tools, workflows, and space to experiment.
• Expectations to develop capabilities, bring ideas, and collaborate across teams.