Software Engineer, Data Infrastructure - AI Platform

As a Software Engineer on TRM Labs' Data Platform Serving team, you'll own performance and reliability for the StarRocks-backed serving layer that powers government cloud investigations. You'll join alongside the engineer currently running this critical infrastructure solo, gaining hands-on experience in one of TRM's most operationally demanding environments: a regulated, high-availability government cloud deployment that serves real investigations for leading agencies worldwide.

What you'll do

• Own performance tuning on the StarRocks serving layer, using AI-assisted query profiling with Claude and internal tooling to identify and fix slow query patterns before they impact customers.
• 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 capable of independently operating and troubleshooting the serving layer, cutting incident response time.
• 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 like Claude or Cursor to accelerate debugging, code review, and documentation.
• An 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 mission-critical data platform serving real government investigations and national security priorities.
• Distributed-first team structure with hubs in San Francisco, Los Angeles, 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, and Thoma Bravo, TRM's platforms enable investigators to trace illicit activity, build cases, and construct operating pictures of threat networks.