Incident Response Engineer

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.

The Detection and Response Engineering (DaRE) team focuses on the security engineering and investigations that go into protecting our corporate assets and responding to internal incidents. Our goal is to reduce risk by developing the systems to detect and contain malicious activity on corporate assets as well as perform the digital forensics and incident response function when an incident occurs.  As an Incident Response Engineer you will lead the response to incidents throughout the incident lifecycle as well as advise Chainalysis stakeholders on preventing incidents through policy and engineering changes.  

In this role, you’ll:

• Develop processes and procedures for incident response procedures where necessary

• Lead as incident commander on an incident involving internal assets

• Provide guidance to stakeholders on ways to reduce security risks and close gaps in defensive posture

• Collaborate with Technology to integrate detection and response capabilities into the corporate environment

• Work cross functionally with product security and engineering teams to develop detection criteria for threats

We’re looking for candidates who have: 

• Experience in evaluating and writing security policies to meet business needs and in response to regulatory requirements

• Experience in incident response procedures and best practices on a wide variety of platforms

• Provided security training and awareness briefings for internal stakeholders in a professional environment

• Managed security tool infrastructure and operations for common monitoring and alerting platforms

• Experience communicating with stakeholders at all levels of the organization to promote security initiatives and deliver reporting on the results of initiatives

• An understanding of vendor assessment processes and procedures to determine the impact to security and provided guidance on minimizing risk exposed by vendors

Nice to have experience:

• Experience in a Devops environment with cloud infrastructure

• Experience in evidence preservation and digital forensics procedures

• Experience working with product and legal teams on long term projects focused around security and regulatory compliance

Technologies we use:

• Splunk

• LogScale/Humio

• AWS

• GSuite (Google Workspace)

• Okta

• MacOS

• Crowdstrike

This job listing may cover more than one job level. To provide greater transparency to candidates, we share base salary ranges for all United States based job listings. We set standard base salary ranges for all roles based on function, level, and location, benchmarked against technology companies. Individual pay decisions are based on a number of factors, including qualifications for the role, relevant work experience, skillset, internal equity, and other factors, consistent with applicable law. The salary range for this position is

The base salary range for this role is $94,000 - $135,000 - $175,000

Base salary is just one part of our total rewards package which additionally includes equity, performance bonus or commissions for eligible roles, and competitive benefits. 

This position is ineligible for visa sponsorship.

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.