Senior Security Researcher, 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 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 are building the data platform for blockchain, cryptocurrency, and web3. We are looking for a senior software engineer (full stack-backend) who will be critical to our mission and will be building and scaling the APIs and data layers our customers rely on every day to stop crime, understand risk, and strategize about their business. Our engineers deeply understand what is possible with cloud-native technologies and use those insights to enable our customers to push the boundaries of the cryptocurrency landscape. 

Our Hexagate team's mission is to make Web3 safe and secure for everyone. We built a real time security platform which helps protocols, dApps, asset managers and service providers to protect their users and funds from theft caused by exploits or fraud. In the web3 and crypto space, security is a fundamental unsolved issue - the blockchain is highly adversarial and exploits in the order of hundreds of millions of dollars.

We are looking for a talented Researcher, who is excited about new and interesting technologies, and is ready to constantly learn about new technologies, and use that understanding to drive our exploit or fraud detection, and help us expand our platform.

The position is office-based in Tel Aviv.

In this job, you'll:

• Design, implement and improve exploit and fraud detection models and frameworks

• Be an expert on bleeding-edge web3 technologies

• Write excellent code and be an integral part of engineering efforts

• Solve sophisticated technical problems and "make hard things work"

• Work in a small, agile, fast-moving team that is best in class

We’re looking for candidates who have:

• Proven experience in research in highly technical environments / low level R&D

• Ability to excel in a dynamic environment with rapidly changing requirements

• Some previous experience in software development

Nice to have experience:

• Blockchain prior experience / interest

• Experience with Python, Go, or Rust

• Experience with classic data science / machine learning (Not LLMs)

Technologies we use:

• Python

• Go

• Rust

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. Some of the ways we’re ensuring we keep learning are an internal Diversity Committee, Days of Reflection throughout the year including International Women’s Day, Harvey Milk Day, World Humanitarian Day, and UN International Migrants Day, and a commitment to continue revisiting and reevaluating 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.