Engineering Team Lead, Hexagate

The engineering team at Chainalysis is inspired by solving the hardest technical challenges and creating products that build trust in cryptocurrencies. We’re a global organization with teams in Denmark, UK, Canada, the USA, and Israel who thrive on the challenging work we do and doing it with other exceptionally talented teammates. Our industry changes every day and our job is to create user facing products supported by a flexible and scalable data platform allowing us to adapt to those rapid changes and bring value to our customers.

We're currently looking for an Engineering Team Lead to join our Hexagate team.

Hexagate builds cybersecurity products that protect on-chain and web3 assets. We sit at the intersection of cybersecurity and blockchains—an adversarial space where attacks are constant and response time matters. We’re building a real-time on-chain detection and response platform that combines ML-driven threat intelligence, custom detections, and an LLM-powered rules engine to protect on-chain assets.

What you'll lead:

• Lead people and mission: build a strong team culture. Keep the group focused on outcomes, quality, and delivery.
• Own a critical part of the platform: you’re accountable for a major system area (pipeline, detection, response, or LLM workflows) and its production health.
• Plan and execute: turn strategy into milestones, make trade-offs, and deliver predictably without losing speed.
• Make decisions: you’ll be expected to take calls under uncertainty. You’ll have backing and support to do it.
• Communicate clearly: align product, engineering, and stakeholders. Set expectations early. Keep priorities transparent.
• Raise the bar: coaching, hiring, performance feedback, and building an environment where strong engineers do their best work.
  
  

What Success Looks Like

• The team ships consistently. Quality stays high.
• Reliability and performance improve over time.
• Engineers grow. Ownership is clear. On-call is healthy.
• Your system area scales with the business and adapts quickly to new needs.
  
  

We’re looking for candidates who have:

• Experience leading an engineering team (or a strong tech lead ready to step into people leadership).
• Strong backend/distributed systems foundation. You can guide architecture and execution.
• Excellent prioritization and trade-off thinking (speed vs. correctness vs. cost).
• Strong people skills: coaching, feedback, conflict resolution, and clear communication.
• High ownership. You take responsibility when things go wrong and drive improvements.
  
  

You might also have:

• Web3/blockchain experience or strong interest.
• Real-time / streaming data platforms.
• Security, fraud, risk, or other adversarial-domain experience.
  
  

Technologies we use:

• Languages: Python, Rust, Go
• Infra: Kubernetes, AWS, Grafana, Pulumi
• Streaming & Messaging: NATS
• Data stores: PostgreSQL, Redis, S3
  
  

About Chainalysis

Blockchain technology is powering a growing wave of innovation. Businesses and governments around the world are using blockchains to make banking more efficient, connect with their customers, and investigate criminal cases. As adoption of blockchain technology grows, more and more organizations seek access to all this ecosystem has to offer. That’s where Chainalysis comes in. We provide complete knowledge of what’s happening on blockchains through our data, services, and solutions. With Chainalysis, organizations can navigate blockchains safely and with confidence.

You belong here.

At Chainalysis, we believe that diversity of experience and thought makes us stronger. With both customers and employees around the world, we are committed to ensuring our team reflects the unique communities around us. We’re ensuring we keep learning by committing to continually revisit and reevaluate our diversity culture.

We encourage applicants across any race, ethnicity, gender/gender expression, age, spirituality, ability, experience and more. If you need any accommodations to make our interview process more accessible to you due to a disability, don't hesitate to let us know. You can learn more here. We can’t wait to meet you.