Engineering Team Lead, Hexagate

📋 Description

• • As an Engineering Team Lead for the Hexagate team at Chainalysis Inc., you will be at the forefront of innovation, leading a talented group of engineers dedicated to solving complex technical challenges within the rapidly evolving cryptocurrency and blockchain space.
• • Your primary responsibility will be to foster a strong team culture, ensuring the group remains focused on delivering high-quality outcomes and meeting critical project milestones with predictable execution.
• • You will own a significant and critical part of the Hexagate platform, which is designed to protect on-chain and web3 assets. This ownership extends to ensuring the production health, scalability, and reliability of your designated system area, whether it be the data pipeline, detection mechanisms, response systems, or the LLM-powered rules engine.
• • A key aspect of your role will involve translating strategic objectives into actionable plans, meticulously defining milestones, and making crucial trade-offs between speed, correctness, and cost to ensure timely delivery without compromising quality.
• • You will be empowered to make critical decisions, often under conditions of uncertainty, with the full backing and support of the organization.
• • Effective communication will be paramount. You will be responsible for aligning product, engineering, and other stakeholders, setting clear expectations early, and maintaining transparency regarding priorities and progress.
• • A significant part of your leadership will involve raising the bar for engineering excellence. This includes actively coaching and mentoring team members, participating in hiring processes, providing constructive performance feedback, and cultivating an environment where highly skilled engineers can perform at their best.
• • Success in this role is measured by the team's consistent ability to ship features with high quality, demonstrable improvements in system reliability and performance over time, and the professional growth of individual engineers.
• • You will ensure clear ownership of responsibilities within the team and maintain a healthy on-call rotation, minimizing burnout and maximizing effectiveness.
• • Your system area must scale seamlessly with business growth and adapt rapidly to emerging needs and threats in the dynamic blockchain security landscape.
• • The Hexagate team operates at the critical intersection of cybersecurity and blockchain technology, an adversarial environment demanding real-time detection and response capabilities.
• • You will guide the development of a sophisticated platform that integrates ML-driven threat intelligence, custom detection rules, and an advanced LLM-powered engine to safeguard digital assets.
• • This role requires a strong technical foundation, particularly in backend and distributed systems, enabling you to provide architectural guidance and oversee execution effectively.
• • You will champion best practices in software development, ensuring robust, scalable, and secure solutions are built.
• • The opportunity to work with cutting-edge technologies such as Python, Rust, Go, Kubernetes, AWS, NATS, PostgreSQL, Redis, and S3 will be central to your daily work.
• • You will play a pivotal role in shaping the future of blockchain security, contributing to products that build trust and enable safe navigation of the cryptocurrency ecosystem.
• • Chainalysis is a global organization with a mission to build trust in cryptocurrencies, and this role is integral to achieving that mission by protecting valuable on-chain and web3 assets.
• • You will be part of a collaborative and intellectually stimulating environment, working alongside exceptionally talented teammates who are passionate about tackling difficult problems.
• • The company culture emphasizes continuous learning, diversity of experience and thought, and a commitment to creating an inclusive environment for all employees.
• • You will contribute to a company that is at the forefront of blockchain analysis and security, providing essential data, services, and solutions to businesses and governments worldwide.
• • This position offers the chance to make a tangible impact on the security and adoption of blockchain technology, a field experiencing exponential growth and innovation.