Senior Data Engineer - AI Platform

As a Senior Data Engineer on TRM Labs' Data Platform Serving team, you own performance tuning and reliability on the StarRocks-backed serving layer that sits underneath government cloud investigations. You'll join the team operating one of TRM's most demanding environments: a regulated, high-availability government cloud deployment that turns intelligence data into fast, reliable answers for investigators worldwide.

What you'll do

• Own performance tuning on the StarRocks serving layer, using AI-assisted query profiling to find and fix slow query patterns before they become customer-facing incidents.
• Build and harden data pipelines feeding government cloud investigations, using AI code review workflows to ship reliable changes faster in a high-compliance environment.
• Reduce single-point-of-failure risk by becoming the second engineer who can independently operate and troubleshoot the serving layer, cutting incident response time during outages.
• Use AI-assisted debugging and log analysis to triage production issues in a regulated environment, turning multi-hour investigations into rapid root-cause fixes.

What you bring

• U.S. citizenship, required for government cloud data access.
• Hands-on experience operating distributed OLAP or serving-layer systems such as StarRocks, Trino, or ClickHouse, including query tuning and performance optimization at scale.
• Experience owning data pipeline reliability and incident response, and comfort using AI tools such as Claude or Cursor to accelerate debugging, code review, and documentation.
• Independent ownership mindset: you can pick up unfamiliar production infrastructure, use AI-assisted research and code exploration to ramp quickly, and take on-call responsibility with minimal oversight.

What we offer

• Work on a regulated, high-availability government cloud deployment operating at scale.
• Distributed-first team communicating across Slack and async docs, with a bias toward direct, evidence-based technical discussion.
• Close collaboration with Forward Deployed Engineering and Product teams to keep the government cloud environment at parity with the commercial platform.

About TRM Labs

TRM Labs is a Series C company with $220M in total funding backed by Goldman Sachs, Bessemer, Y Combinator, Thoma Bravo, and others. TRM provides AI-powered intelligence solutions that help public and private sector agencies investigate and disrupt crime, enabling investigators to trace illicit activity and build cases against threat networks. Headquartered in San Francisco, TRM operates as a distributed-first company with hubs in Los Angeles, San Francisco, New York, Washington D.C., London, and Singapore.