[Hiring] Tech Lead, Staff Software Engineer, Data Product @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 are 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 $200,000 - $250,000.
• 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. Leading agencies and businesses worldwide rely on TRM to make the world safer and more secure.