Chainalysis
Manager Engineering, Compliance Core
$196K–$266K
New York Office · Hybrid · Manager · Full-time · Posted Sep 15, 2026
About the job
Leads the Compliance Core engineering team in modernizing and operating a real-time blockchain risk platform while supporting team growth, delivery, and operational health.
What you'll do
- Set technical direction and deliver incremental platform migrations with safe rollouts.
- Lead, coach, and manage engineers, while remaining hands-on in design, code, and production problem-solving.
- Own cross-team delivery and improve reliability, observability, testing, incident response, and on-call practices.
What they ask for
- Experience building and operating high-throughput, event-driven distributed systems.
- Strong hands-on engineering judgment and ability to guide implementation and architectural decisions.
- Experience managing engineers, including coaching, performance management, and career development.
- Track record delivering complex technical initiatives across teams.
Nice to have
- Experience modernizing critical production systems while maintaining service continuity.
- Familiarity with JVM services in production; customer-facing systems with strict latency and availability requirements; or regulated domains.
Pay
$196,000 – $265,650 (base salary)
AI focus
Expected to develop AI fluency and actively experiment with AI to improve how work gets done; the company describes an AI-driven platform, but the role's specific AI work is not stated.
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