[Hiring] Senior Software Engineer, Data @TRM Labs

Role Description

As a Senior Data Engineer on the Data Product team, you will be responsible for designing and building mission-critical data services. These features analyze and provide insights into blockchain transaction activity at petabyte scale, and ultimately work to build a safer financial system for billions of people.

• Build highly scalable features that integrate with dozens of blockchains.
• Design and architect intricate data models for optimal storage and retrieval to support sub-second latency for querying blockchain data.
• Collaborate across departments, partnering with data scientists, backend engineers, and product managers to design and implement novel data models that enhance TRM’s products.
• Work closely with product managers, data scientists, and customer-facing teams to deeply understand user needs and translate them into scalable data solutions.
• Write clear design docs, proactively share tradeoffs, and build alignment across disciplines.
• Bonus: Experience with LLMs or AI-powered workflows (e.g., prompt engineering, internal tooling, semantic search).

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree (or equivalent) in Computer Science or a related field.
• A proven track record, with 5+ years of hands-on experience in architecting scalable API development and distributed system architecture.
• Exceptional programming skills in Python, as well as adeptness in SQL or SparkSQL.
• In-depth experience with data stores such as BigQuery and Postgres.
• Experience building pipelines, data platforms, or ML/BI workflows from scratch.
• Proficiency in data pipeline and workflow orchestration tools like Airflow and DBT.
• Expertise in data processing technologies and streaming workflows including Dataflow, Spark, Kafka, and Flink.
• Competence in deploying and monitoring infrastructure within public cloud platforms, utilizing tools such as Docker, Terraform, Kubernetes, and Datadog.
• Proven ability in loading, querying, and transforming extensive datasets.

Requirements

• You simplify complexity and communicate technical decisions clearly to both technical and non-technical stakeholders.
• You’re cost-conscious: you design for performance, scale, and efficiency.
• You’ve mentored engineers or analysts and enjoy leveling up those around you.

Benefits

• The estimated base salary range for this role is $190,000 - $220,000.
• This role may be eligible to participate in TRM’s equity plan.

Company Description

TRM Labs provides AI-powered intelligence solutions that help public and private sector agencies investigate and disrupt crime. TRM's platforms enable investigators to trace illicit activity, build cases, and construct operating pictures of threat networks. Leading agencies and businesses worldwide rely on TRM to make the world safer and more secure.