Tech Lead, Hexagate
Chainalysis is a blockchain analysis company that provides data, software, and services to investigate and prevent cryptocurrency-related fraud and money laundering.
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About Chainalysis
Chainalysis is a blockchain analysis company that offers comprehensive data, software, and services to government agencies, financial institutions, exchanges, and cybersecurity firms. Their solutions include Chainalysis Reactor for tracing blockchain transactions and Chainalysis KYT for real-time transaction monitoring. Chainalysis supports compliance with anti-money laundering and counter-terrorism financing regulations, helping clients investigate illicit activities and ensure regulatory adherence.
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About the Role
You'll join the Hexagate team to help build a real-time on-chain detection and response platform that combines ML-driven threat intelligence, custom detections, and an LLM-powered rules engine to protect on-chain assets. You'll set direction for a core area such as pipelines, the detection platform, response, or LLM systems, owning architecture, roadmap execution, and technical quality. You'll design high-throughput ingestion, normalization, enrichment, and routing systems for multi-chain activity, and evolve detection engines across a monitoring DSL, statistical and ML models, and threat intelligence. You'll define standards for reliability and observability, drive incident learnings and performance work, and mentor engineers while running design reviews and unblocking delivery.
Requirements
- Staff level backend engineering, with a track record of leading technical decisions in production systems
- Distributed systems depth: reliability, latency, concurrency, backpressure, idempotency
- Strong API design and data modeling skills (relational + event-driven)
- Ability to lead through influence: clear communication, strong judgment, and pragmatic trade-offs
- High ownership and ability to drive execution end-to-end
Responsibilities
- Set direction for a core area such as pipelines, detection platform, response, or LLM systems
- Own architecture, roadmap execution, and technical quality
- Lead designs for high-throughput ingestion, normalization, enrichment, and routing of multi-chain activity
- Evolve detection engines across monitoring DSL, statistical/anomaly models, ML models, and threat intelligence
- Define standards for reliability and observability
- Drive incident learnings, performance work, and production health
- Mentor engineers, run design reviews, unblock delivery, and raise the quality bar