Engineering Manager, Platform

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 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.

Platform Engineering at Chainalysis provides the shared infrastructure, tooling, and developer experience layer that powers every engineering team. We are currently moving from localized infrastructure ownership to consolidated, scalable platform patterns to meet global growth. Our mission is to provide the foundation that allows our developers to navigate blockchain data safely and with confidence.

We are hiring an Engineering Manager to lead a team of ~6 engineers focused on making our software delivery faster and safer. You will oversee delivery pipelines, developer tooling, and the safe integration of AI-assisted development into our production workflows. This is a high-leverage leadership role for a former individual contributor who excels at driving organizational change and technical adoption.

In this role, you’ll:

- Lead and grow a distributed team of platform engineers, hiring strategically as the team scales.

- Own the roadmap for the Software Delivery Lifecycle (SDLC), balancing immediate developer friction with long-term platform bets.

- Build deep relationships with engineering leads to drive the adoption of standardized pipelines and platform-managed solutions.

- Establish and measure key performance metrics (such as DORA) to track improvements in deployment frequency and release confidence.

- Define the strategy for AI in the SDLC, setting quality gates and guardrails for AI-assisted code.

- Participate in an incide...