Staff Engineer, Public Sector (FedRAMP)

Chainalysis Government Solutions (CGS) is hiring a Staff Engineer to operationalize, scale, and evolve its authorized FedRAMP cloud platform. The role owns technical architecture and delivery for the public sector cloud boundary, partnering with engineering, compliance, security, and public sector teams to support reliable customer onboarding and expansion.

Responsibilities:

• Drive FedRAMP Operationalization: Lead the technical operationalization, maintenance, and scale of our authorized FedRAMP cloud boundary, ensuring production reliability and readiness for customer onboarding and ongoing expansions
• Bridge Cross-Entity Engineering: Act as the primary technical liaison embedded with Inc engineering and CGS technical leadership, providing authoritative direction on public sector compliance, architecture, and deployment patterns
• Lead Complex Technical Initiatives: Architect, implement, and maintain secure CI/CD pipelines, containerized environments, and cloud infrastructure within AWS GovCloud/Commercial boundaries
• Champion Continuous Compliance & Security: Partner closely with compliance and security teams to maintain FedRAMP continuous monitoring (ConMon), automate vulnerability scanning/remediation, and ensure adherence to NIST 800-53 controls
• Enhance System Observability & Automation: Build scalable automation (Infrastructure as Code) and deep telemetry/logging to rapidly identify, deconstruct, and resolve complex systemic challenges across public sector services
• Mentor & Guide Technical Teams: Provide high-level guidance, architecture reviews, and coaching to peer engineers across both entities, driving best practices for public sector and government cloud architectures across the organization

Requirements:

• 8+ years of software, DevOps, cloud, or systems engineering experience, with significant experience designing, deploying, and sustaining platforms within authorized FedRAMP (Moderate or High) environments
• Proven track record operating with high autonomy as a Staff-level technical lead—taking high-level strategic product and architectural goals and translating them into robust engineering solutions with minimal oversight
• Advanced proficiency with core AWS services (EC2, VPC, IAM, KMS, S3, RDS) and Infrastructure as Code (Terraform, CloudFormation)
• Strong experience building and maintaining containerized applications using Kubernetes, Docker, or Amazon EKS
• Deep working knowledge of FedRAMP authorization lifecycles, NIST SP 800-53 controls, vulnerability remediation, and continuous monitoring (ConMon) workflows
• Proficiency with scripting and software development languages (e.g., Python, Go, Bash) to build automation, tooling, and integrations
• Exceptional ability to communicate highly complex architecture and compliance nuances clearly across executive stakeholders, product teams, and technical engineers
• U.S. Citizenship required
• Direct experience taking a SaaS platform through initial FedRAMP In-Process to Authorized status (Agency or JAB/FedRAMP Marketplace)
• Prior experience working within hybrid or cross-entity engineering organizations bridging commercial and public sector subsidiaries
• Hands-on experience with modern data/analytics platforms or blockchain data structures
• Familiarity with DoD Impact Levels (IL4/IL5) or commercial cloud environments integrated with federal systems