DeFi Market Surveillance Analyst, Global Intelligence & Investigations
On-siteNew York City, New York, United States or New York, United States
Job Summary
Triage incoming alerts and referrals daily against documented thresholds, prioritizing genuinely novel signals while running down matters that clear investigation thresholds. Trace flagged wallets across chains, bridges, and funding flows, distinguishing controlling wallets from contract and proxy wallets to reach a documented disposition. Review order-book and execution data for spoofing, layering, wash trading, and coordinated multi-account activity, tying observed behavior back to the wallets driving it. Investigate the full range of manipulation risk including insider trading, oracle manipulation, and illicit-finance flows. Write queries, build lightweight analysis, and propose new detection signals based on day-to-day observations to improve the process while running it. Document every matter with clear, sourced findings framed as suspected rather than confirmed, ensuring audit readiness. Handle law enforcement and regulatory requests against binding deadlines, tracking each matter and escalating anything unusual to legal counsel.
Required Qualifications
- 3+ years in trade surveillance, on-chain investigations, blockchain analytics, financial crime investigation, or exchange operations
- Hands-on wallet tracing experience: you can follow funding flows and withdrawal paths across a blockchain, identify controlling vs. contract wallets, work with bridges and mixers, and cluster related addresses to reach a disposition
- Solid working knowledge of order-book manipulation typologies, including spoofing, layering, wash trading, and coordinated multi-account activity, and of how exchange trading and order-book mechanics work
- Proficiency in SQL or a comparable query language for pulling and joining trading, device/IP, and on-chain data
- Strong written communication, specifically case documentation that holds up to legal and regulatory scrutiny
- Genuine familiarity with how prediction markets and crypto-native platforms work, how markets resolve, and why their integrity matters
Desired Qualifications
- Depth with blockchain analytics platforms such as Chainalysis, TRM Labs, or Elliptic
- Hands-on experience with automated trade-surveillance platforms such as Nasdaq SMARTS
- Familiarity with oracle and market-resolution mechanisms, and how resolution manipulation differs from trading-based manipulation
- Prior experience in a regulated financial environment (exchange, FCM, or introducing broker) or with sanctions and illicit-finance screening
- Python or similar scripting for data pulls, analysis, and lightweight tooling
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