Senior Platform Engineer, Foundations
Chainalysis4 hours ago
London, United KingdomSenior
Responsibilities
- Design, operate, and continuously improve highly available platform services, including managed Kubernetes clusters, Kafka, CI/CD systems, artifact management, and shared infrastructure.
- Build secure and scalable infrastructure across AWS and other cloud environments using infrastructure as code and repeatable automation.
- Improve production reliability through SLOs, graceful degradation, self-healing, automated recovery, observability, and incident response.
- Create self-service workflows and platform abstractions that reduce cognitive load for R&D teams.
- Partner with Information Security, Cost Optimization, and engineering teams on security controls, cloud efficiency, technical direction, and platform roadmaps.
Requirements
- Deep experience designing, operating, and troubleshooting production infrastructure in AWS, including IAM, EC2, EKS, RDS, MSK, S3, Lambda, VPC, and networking.
- Experience administering and scaling multi-tenant Kubernetes clusters and production streaming platforms such as Kafka, including upgrades, workload isolation, reliability, security, and incident response.
- Experience building and maintaining infrastructure as code, pipeline-as-code, containerization, and cloud-native systems using tools such as Terraform, Helm, Ansible, Jenkins, GitHub Actions, Docker, or Kubernetes.
- Experience designing observability for production systems and tuning relational databases, ideally PostgreSQL, using tools such as Datadog or Prometheus.
- Strong software-engineering or scripting skills in one or more of Python, Go, Java, Scala, or shell.
- Experience with developer productivity, developer experience, self-service tooling, reusable platform abstractions, or security standards-compliant environments such as ISO 27001, NIST 800-171, or SOC 2 is advantageous.
Tech Stack
AnsibleApache KafkaAWSDatadogDockerGitHub ActionsGoHelmJavaJenkinsKubernetesPostgreSQLPrometheusPythonScalaTerraform
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About Chainalysis
Chainalysis builds blockchain data and analytics software used by law enforcement, regulators, crypto businesses, and financial institutions to investigate transactions and manage compliance risk. Its products include investigation tools and transaction monitoring offered via subscriptions and professional services. Founded in 2014 and headquartered in New York City, the privately held company serves global markets across cryptocurrencies and traditional finance.