Senior Software Engineer, Data - US

As a Senior Software Engineer on the Data Product team at TRM Labs, you design and build mission-critical data services that analyze blockchain transaction activity at petabyte scale. You work with data scientists, engineers, and product managers to create highly scalable features that power TRM's intelligence platforms and help agencies investigate and disrupt crime.

What you'll do

• Build highly scalable features that integrate with dozens of blockchains.
• Design and architect intricate data models for optimal storage and retrieval to support sub-second latency for querying blockchain data.
• Collaborate across departments with data scientists, backend engineers, and product managers to design and implement novel data models that enhance TRM's products.
• Work closely with product managers, data scientists, and customer-facing teams to understand user needs and translate them into scalable data solutions.
• Write clear design documents, proactively share tradeoffs, and build alignment across disciplines.

What you bring

• A Bachelor's degree in Computer Science or a related field.
• 5+ years of hands-on experience architecting scalable API development, distributed system architecture, and guiding projects from ideation through successful production deployment.
• Exceptional programming skills in Python, plus proficiency in SQL or SparkSQL.
• In-depth experience with data stores such as BigQuery and Postgres.
• Ownership of 0-1 systems: building pipelines, data platforms, or ML/BI workflows from scratch rather than just maintaining legacy systems.
• Ability to simplify complexity and communicate technical decisions clearly to both technical and non-technical stakeholders.
• A cost-conscious approach to design, optimizing for performance, scale, and efficiency.
• Experience mentoring engineers or analysts and leveling up those around you.

Nice to have

• Proficiency in data pipeline and workflow orchestration tools like Airflow and DBT.
• Expertise in data processing technologies and streaming workflows including Dataflow, Spark, Kafka, and Flink.
• Competence in deploying and monitoring infrastructure within public cloud platforms, using tools such as Docker, Terraform, Kubernetes, and Datadog.
• Experience with LLMs or AI-powered workflows such as prompt engineering, internal tooling, or semantic search.

What we offer

• Base salary range of $190,000-$220,000.
• Eligibility to participate in TRM's equity plan.

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 is headquartered in San Francisco and operates as a distributed-first company with hubs in Los Angeles, San Francisco, New York, Washington D.C., London, and Singapore.