Full Job Description
The Engineering Manager for the Clustering Platform team will own and evolve the systems that power Chainalysis's core clustering capabilities - how we link blockchain addresses to real-world entities at scale. You'll lead a high-performing engineering team, shape the next-generation clustering architecture, and partner closely with data and product teams to keep our platform ahead of an ever-changing industry.
In this role, you'll:
• Build, lead, and mentor a team of talented engineers focused on clustering infrastructure and data systems.
• Drive the technical vision and roadmap for the Clustering Platform, balancing reliability, scalability, and speed of iteration.
• Partner with data producers, consumers, and product stakeholders to deliver a world-class developer and data science experience.
• Establish engineering processes, tooling, and best practices that accelerate the team and the broader organization.
• Dive into hard problems hands-on when needed - architecture decisions, incident response, or unblocking the team
We're looking for candidates who have:
• Strong hands-on software and data engineering skills - you're comfortable reviewing code, writing design docs, debugging production systems, and making architectural decisions alongside your team.
• Deep experience with large-scale data processing and distributed systems (e.g., PySpark, Databricks, Airflow, or similar). You can evaluate trade-offs, not just delegate them.
• A track record for leading high-performing engineering teams - while staying close enough to the technical details to unblock, challenge, and elevate the work.
• Ability to context-switch between people leadership and hands-on technical contribution, especially during critical moments like incident response, system design, or prototyping.
• A collaborative, servant-leadership style grounded in technical credibility - your team trusts your judgment because you've been in the trenches with them.
• Excitement about working on large-scale graph and clustering problems, and a genuine desire to own mission-critical infrastructure.
• Interest in blockchain and cryptocurrencies (or eagerness to learn - we'll help).