DeFi Market Surveillance Analyst

This is a fully remote position, open to applicants in United States.

📋 Description

• Evaluate incoming alerts and referrals on a daily basis against established investigation thresholds, determine priority and next steps, and detect novel signals.

• Track identified wallets across various chains, bridges, and funding flows, differentiate controlling wallets from contract and proxy wallets, group related addresses, and trace withdrawal paths to resolution.

• Analyze order-book and execution data for activities such as spoofing, layering, wash trading, and coordinated multi-account actions, linking behaviors to the wallets involved.

• Examine insider trading, manipulation of oracles and resolution sources, abuse of bots and automated trading, exposure to sanctions, and flows of illicit finance.

• Create queries, conduct lightweight analyses, and suggest new detection signals.

• Record every case with clear, sourced, audit-ready findings framed as suspected rather than confirmed.

• Manage law enforcement and regulatory inquiries, including subpoenas, preservation letters, and court orders, while monitoring deadlines and escalating unusual matters to legal counsel.

⛳️ Requirements

• Over 3 years of experience in trade surveillance, on-chain investigations, blockchain analytics, financial crime investigation, or exchange operations.

• Significant DeFi experience can compensate for less extensive traditional surveillance experience, and vice versa.

• Practical experience in wallet tracing across blockchains, including funding flows, withdrawal paths, bridges, mixers, and address clustering.

• Familiarity with order-book manipulation techniques, such as spoofing, layering, wash trading, and coordinated multi-account activity.

• Knowledge of exchange trading and order-book mechanics.

• Proficient in SQL or a similar query language for analyzing trading, device/IP, and on-chain data.

• Excellent written communication skills for creating legally and regulatorily defensible case documentation.

• Understanding of prediction markets, crypto-native platforms, market resolution, and market integrity.

• Experience with Chainalysis, TRM Labs, or Elliptic is advantageous.

• Familiarity with automated trade-surveillance platforms such as Nasdaq SMARTS is a plus.

• Understanding of oracle and market-resolution mechanisms is an asset.

• Prior experience in a regulated financial environment or with sanctions and illicit-finance screening is beneficial.

• Knowledge of Python or similar scripting languages is a plus.

🏝️ Benefits

• Competitive salary & equity.

• Unlimited PTO.

• Comprehensive Health, Vision, & Dental coverage.

• 401k match.

• Hardware setup: new MacBook Pro, large display, & accessories.