Senior Data Engineer, Data Platform
Blockchain intelligence company providing tools to detect, investigate, and manage crypto-related fraud, financial crime, and compliance for institutions and government agencies.
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About TRM Labs
TRM Labs provides blockchain intelligence for investigations and compliance, offering products such as forensics, wallet screening, entity screening, transaction monitoring, and APIs. It serves financial institutions, crypto businesses, and public sector agencies to trace funds, assess risk, and build cases across digital assets.
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About the Role
You will build highly reliable data services that integrate with dozens of blockchains, develop complex ETL pipelines to transform and process petabytes of structured and unstructured data in real time, and design data models for optimal storage and sub-second query latency. You will oversee deployment and monitoring of large database clusters with a focus on performance and high availability, and collaborate with data scientists, backend engineers, and product managers to implement data models that support product needs. You will also create scalable automation for operational tasks, build observability and monitoring solutions, and prioritize fast, pragmatic iterations to deliver production value quickly.
Requirements
- Bachelor's degree or equivalent in Computer Science or a related field
- 5+ years of experience architecting distributed system architecture
- Strong programming skills in Python
- Proficiency in SQL or SparkSQL
- Experience with data stores such as Iceberg, Trino, BigQuery, StarRocks, and Citus
- Familiarity with pipeline and workflow orchestration tools like Airflow and DBT
- Experience with data processing and streaming technologies such as Spark, Kafka, and Flink
- Experience deploying and monitoring infrastructure with Docker, Terraform, Kubernetes, and Datadog
- Proven ability to load, query, and transform very large datasets
- AI fluency in applying AI to accelerate workflows and improve output
Responsibilities
- Build highly reliable data services to integrate with multiple blockchains
- Develop complex ETL pipelines that process petabytes of data in real time
- Design and architect data models for optimal storage and retrieval
- Deploy and monitor large database clusters with a focus on performance and high availability
- Collaborate with data scientists, backend engineers, and product managers on data model design
- Create self-serve automation for routine scaling and maintenance tasks
- Build observability dashboards and monitoring to support operations
- Prioritize pragmatic, fast iterations to deliver operationally usable first versions
Benefits
- Remote work (remote-first)
- Equity plan eligibility