Senior GRC Engineer, Trust
About the role
The InfoSec organization at Chainalysis helps protect the company, its products, and its customers as the business grows. The team works across security engineering, trust, governance, risk, and compliance to strengthen our control environment, support customer and regulatory expectations, and enable the business to move quickly with confidence. We partner closely across Product, Engineering, IT, Legal, and other cross-functional teams to build security and compliance into how Chainalysis operates.
Responsibilities
- Contribute to the mission by improving the systems, processes, and technical controls that support a scalable security and compliance program.
- Lead technical control implementation, own remediation work end to end, and improve how evidence is gathered and maintained across the business.
- Partner with Product, R&D Engineering, Security Engineering and adjacent teams to implement and operationalize security and compliance controls across Chainalysis products.
- Own end-to-end remediation of compliance and security findings, from gap identification through validation and closure.
- Build scalable evidence collection and control-testing workflows that improve audit readiness and reduce manual effort.
- Drive continuous control improvement across a segmented product suite, including pass-through security and compliance requirements where applicable.
- Support product and risk review processes by helping teams translate requirements into practical technical and operational actions.
- Advocate for a durable, scalable control environment that keeps pace with business growth and customer expectations.
- Help shape GRC automation and stronger operating rhythms across the Trust organization.
Requirements
We’re looking for a Senior GRC Engineer who has experience implementing and operating security or compliance controls in a cloud, SaaS, or otherwise regulated technology environment. They should have built repeatable evidence collection, control testing, or remediation workflows that improved audit readiness and reduced manual work. They should also have experience partnering cross-functionally with engineering, security, and business stakeholders to move control work from requirement to implementation.
Qualifications
- Built repeatable evidence collection, control testing, or remediation workflows that improved audit readiness and reduced manual work.
- Experience partnering cross-functionally with engineering, security, and business stakeholders to move control work from requirement to implementation.
- The ability to translate customer, audit, or internal control requirements into clear technical actions for delivery teams.
- Strong written and verbal communication skills, including the ability to explain risk, tradeoffs, and remediation plans to both technical and non-technical audiences.
- Experience supporting assurance or compliance programs such as SOC 2, ISO 27001, customer security reviews, or similar control frameworks.
- The ability to influence cross-functional work, collaborate broadly, and provide guidance in a senior IC role.
- A practical, systems-minded approach to improving controls without creating unnecessary friction for the business.
Skills
- Experience with Trust Center operations or customer-facing security and compliance request workflows.
- Familiarity with identity and access management controls such as Okta and MFA enforcement.
- Experience with GRC automation or workflow tooling that improves evidence collection, remediation tracking, or control monitoring.
- Exposure to blockchain, fintech, or other high-trust environments where customer assurance and technical controls are tightly coupled.
Benefits
No specific benefits mentioned.
Pay
$97K - $184K
Schedule
No specific schedule mentioned.
Additional Information
This position is ineligible for visa sponsorship. US Citizenship is required. AI at Chainalysis is not a feature at Chainalysis - it is a new way of working. One that turns instructions into work done, and helps us move faster than the threats we're built to counter, and we expect our employees to take ownership of the output and ensure quality. As the world's most trusted blockchain analytics platform, Chainalysis sits at a rare intersection of proprietary data, regulatory relationships and crypto expertise that makes it uniquely placed to shape and lead the next era of AI-driven intelligence - and we expect everyone here, regardless of role, to be an active part of it. 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.