Trade Surveillance Analyst; Fully Remote

• As the first Trade Surveillance Analyst, you'll be a founding member of the DCM's market regulation function.
• You'll monitor trading activity, investigate alerts, and help build the surveillance program from scratch.

What You'll Do:

• Monitor real-time and post-trade activity for spoofing, layering, wash trading, and other manipulative practices.
• Triage and investigate alerts, reconstruct orders and trades, and document whether they are errors, false positives, or violations.
• Work directly with FCMs and clearing members to gather information and resolve cases.

What You Bring:

• 2–5+ years in trade or market surveillance at an exchange or regulator, or trading compliance at an FCM or broker-dealer.
• Hands-on experience with surveillance platforms like Nasdaq SMARTS or comparable tools.
• Working knowledge of digital assets investigations, on-chain analysis, and forensic tracing using Chainalysis or similar tools.

Nice to Have:

• SQL, Python, or other data tooling for analysis and automating surveillance work.
• Experience with 24/7 markets or crypto derivatives.
• Exposure to CFTC/NFA regulation and DCM Core Principles.

Sei Labs is a unicorn startup based in NYC building Sei, the fastest EVM blockchain in the world designed for trading. They are a lean, remote-first team that ships fast, takes full ownership of outcomes, and builds from first principles.