Senior Data Platform Engineer - AI Platform

As a Senior Data Platform Engineer on TRM Labs' Data Platform Serving team, you'll own the StarRocks-backed serving layer that powers government cloud investigations. You'll work alongside the engineer who currently owns this domain solo, building hands-on distributed systems experience in one of TRM's most operationally demanding environments: a regulated, high-availability government cloud deployment.

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 on GovCloud data infrastructure by becoming the second engineer who can independently operate and troubleshoot the serving layer, cutting incident response time when the primary owner is unavailable
• 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 mission-critical infrastructure serving U.S. government agencies investigating and disrupting crime
• Distributed-first team structure across hubs in Los Angeles, San Francisco, New York, Washington D.C., London, and Singapore

About TRM Labs

TRM Labs provides AI-powered intelligence solutions that help public and private sector agencies investigate and disrupt crime. A Series C company with $220M in total funding backed by Goldman Sachs, Bessemer, Y Combinator, Thoma Bravo, and others, TRM operates as a distributed-first company headquartered in San Francisco.