Trade Surveillance Analyst
Sei is a high-performance Layer 1 blockchain optimized for trading applications with 400ms block finality and parallel transaction processing.
Maintainer signals as of 9/25/2026
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About Sei
Sei helps developers build fast, efficient applications by providing a trading-focused Layer 1 blockchain with parallelized execution. Users can trade digital assets at near-instant speeds, build high-performance decentralized exchanges, and deploy applications using familiar EVM tools.
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About the Role
You will monitor real-time and post-trade exchange activity for manipulation, fraud, and disruptive trading. You will investigate alerts, reconstruct orders and trades, document findings, run participant inquiries, escalate potential violations, and help build scalable surveillance procedures, tooling, and case-management workflows.
Requirements
- 2–5+ years in trade or market surveillance, trading compliance, or a related role
- Experience investigating surveillance alerts
- Knowledge of manipulative and disruptive trading patterns
- Experience with digital-asset investigations, traditional financial instruments, futures, or derivatives
- On-chain analysis and forensic tracing of wallets and fund flows
- Written and verbal communication skills
- Ability to comply with information barrier, conflict-of-interest, and personal trading policies
Responsibilities
- Monitor real-time and post-trade activity for manipulation, fraud, and disruptive trading practices
- Triage and investigate surveillance alerts, reconstruct orders and trades, and document findings
- Run participant inquiry workflows and work with FCMs and clearing members to resolve cases
- Escalate potential rule violations and prepare case files for review, enforcement, and regulatory inquiries
- Help design case-management workflows, alert tuning, and automation
- Contribute to surveillance procedures and DCM Core Principle readiness
- Review high-volume first-line alerts
- Participate in 24/7 market coverage, including scheduled weekend or off-hours rotations
