Software Engineer II, Compliance Core
Company: Chainalysis
Location: New York Office
Salary: $146k - $200k per year
Type: Full-time
Posted: 2026-10-14
About this role
Compliance Core builds and operates the platform that customers rely on to evaluate blockchain risk in real time and continuously monitor activity across billions of transfers. Our systems screen transfers and withdrawals, reassess exposure as new information arrives, aggregate risk at the user and organization level, and power datasets used by other teams and customers.
As a Software Engineer II on Compliance Core, you’ll build and maintain the backend services and data processing systems behind these capabilities. You’ll work with engineers and Product partners to deliver customer features, improve performance and reliability, and modernize the platform through incremental changes and safe rollouts.
We’re looking for an engineer who takes ownership of scoped projects, enjoys solving distributed systems problems, and cares about the correctness and operational health of the software they ship. You’ll contribute to design decisions, learn from experienced teammates, and grow your impact as you develop expertise in our systems and the compliance domain.
## In this role, you’ll:
- Build and maintain backend services and APIs that support transfer and withdrawal screening, continuous monitoring, and risk aggregation.
- Develop event-driven data ingestion and processing systems that handle growing volumes of blockchain activity with a focus on correctness, throughput, and latency.
- Own scoped features and improvements from design through implementation, testing, deployment, and production support, with guidance on broader architectural decisions.
- Contribute to platform modernization by improving existing services and helping deliver incremental migrations with safe rollouts.
- Work with Product and partner engineering teams to clarify requirements, discuss tradeoffs, and deliver changes that address customer needs.
- Improve automated tests, monitoring, and documentation so the team can understand system behavior and detect problems early.
- Participate in code r...