Senior or Staff Software Engineer, Data Platform (Canada)

As a Senior or Staff Software Engineer on TRM Labs' Data Platform team, you will build highly available and scalable data infrastructure that analyzes blockchain transaction activity at petabyte scale. You collaborate with data scientists, engineers, and product managers to create mission-critical systems that help agencies and businesses investigate and disrupt crime.

What you'll do

• Build highly reliable data services to integrate with dozens of blockchains.
• Develop complex ETL pipelines that transform and process petabytes of structured and unstructured data in real-time.
• Design and architect intricate data models for optimal storage and retrieval to support sub-second latency for querying blockchain data.
• Oversee the deployment and monitoring of large database clusters with a focus on performance and high availability.
• Collaborate across departments with data scientists, backend engineers, and product managers to design and implement novel data models that enhance TRM's products.

What you bring

• A Bachelor's degree (or equivalent) in Computer Science or a related field.
• 5+ years of hands-on experience architecting distributed systems, guiding projects from initial ideation through to successful production deployment.
• Exceptional programming skills in Python, and adeptness in SQL or SparkSQL.
• In-depth experience with data stores and engines such as Iceberg, Trino, BigQuery, StarRocks, and Citus.
• Proficiency in data pipeline and workflow orchestration tools like Airflow and DBT.
• Expertise in data processing technologies and streaming workflows including Spark, Kafka, and Flink.
• Competence in deploying and monitoring infrastructure within public cloud platforms using tools such as Docker, Terraform, Kubernetes, and Datadog.
• Proven ability in loading, querying, and transforming extensive datasets.

About TRM Labs

TRM Labs is a Series C company with $220M in total funding, backed by Goldman Sachs, Bessemer, Y Combinator, and Thoma Bravo, providing AI-powered intelligence solutions that help public and private sector agencies investigate and disrupt crime. 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.