TRM Labs is on a mission to build a safer financial system using blockchain intelligence and AI. The Senior Software Engineer, Data Infrastructure (RDBMS) will play a critical role in designing, maintaining, and scaling petabyte-scale databases and data models that power real-time investigations and analytics across the platform.
What You'll Do
- Design and maintain petabyte scale high-performance databases and data models that support real-time investigations and analytics use cases
- Build and optimize production data pipelines—batch and streaming—that transform large-scale blockchain datasets
- Diagnose and tune complex SQL queries under heavy load, working closely with product and research teams
- Own key infrastructure initiatives—from query optimization and index strategy to storage optimization and system resilience
- Collaborate cross-functionally to deliver reliable and impactful data workflows end-to-end
- Build scalable engines to optimize routine scaling and maintenance tasks like self-serve automation for creating new pgbouncer, scaling disks, scaling/updating clusters
- Enable tasks to be faster next time and reduce dependency on a single person
- Identify ways to compress timelines using the 80/20 principle
- Focus on must-haves first to get operational, then harden for customer readiness in future milestones
- Identify first versions (e.g., 'skateboards') for projects, such as building an observability dashboard within a week
- Gather feedback from stakeholders to identify additional needs or enhancements
What We're Looking For
- 5+ years of experience in data engineering, analytics infrastructure, or backend systems with RDBMS depth
- Experience implementing and maintaining database security measures, including access control, encryption, and compliance with security frameworks and standards
- Proven expertise with at least one of: Postgres, MySQL, or SQL Server at production scale (e.g., TB-scale datasets, concurrency, replication, tuning)
- Strong command of SQL reasoning—you know how to debug, explain, and optimize queries, not just write them
- Experience designing and evolving data models (normalized and denormalized) to support analytical or operational use cases
- Familiarity with data pipeline frameworks (e.g., Airflow, DBT, custom orchestration)
- Systems thinking and ownership mindset—you’re comfortable solving ambiguous, cross-functional problems from end to end
- AI fluency: ability to use AI to accelerate workflows, structure and solve problems, improve output quality, and increase speed and leverage
Technical Stack
- Postgres, MySQL, SQL Server, Airflow, DBT, pgbouncer, Blockchain datasets, AI tools
Team & Environment
- Data Platform team acts as the funnel between TRM's data and product worlds; collaborates across most teams at TRM
- High ownership and impact-driven culture
- Opportunity to work on meaningful problems at the intersection of AI, national security, and financial crime
- Fast-paced environment with rapid iteration and shipping
- High velocity, high ownership team that expects clarity, follow-through, and impact
- Thrives on hard problems, experimentation, and continuous feedback
- Operates with a high degree of ambiguity and rapid change
- Values urgency, adaptability, and outcomes
- Encourages creative problem solving and out-of-box thinking
- AI fluency expected: use AI to accelerate workflows, solve problems, improve quality, and increase leverage
Benefits & Compensation
- Eligibility to participate in TRM’s equity plan
- Remote-first and async-friendly work environment
- Team members based across almost all US timezones
- On-call shifts in EST/PST based on preference
- Limited meeting load: no individual contributor spends more than 3-4 hours per week in meetings
- High ownership and impact-driven culture
- Opportunity to work on meaningful problems at the intersection of AI, national security, and financial crime
- Fast-paced environment with rapid iteration and shipping
- $200,000 - $220,000 (US base salary)
- Compensation adjusted for geography outside the United States
Work Mode
- Distributed-first company with async communication norms and reserved overlap for meetings; remote-first and async-friendly environment
- Locations: San Francisco, Los Angeles, New York, Washington D.C., London, Singapore, Remote across US timezones
TRM is committed to providing reasonable accommodations to applicants with disabilities. Recruitment agencies are not accepted unless under a signed agreement.
