Staff Data Platform Engineer - AI Platform

As a Staff Data Platform Engineer on TRM Labs' AI Platform team, you'll own the StarRocks-backed serving layer that powers government cloud investigations. You join the Data Platform Serving team alongside the engineer currently operating this infrastructure solo, taking on hands-on distributed systems work 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 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, leveraging 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 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.
• 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.
• AI fluency as a baseline expectation: you apply AI to accelerate repeatable workflows, structure and solve problems, improve output quality, and increase speed and leverage.

What we offer

• Work on mission-critical infrastructure in a regulated government cloud environment.
• Distributed-first operation 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. TRM is a Series C company with $220M in total funding, backed by Goldman Sachs, Bessemer, Y Combinator, and Thoma Bravo, operating as a distributed-first company with offices across North America, Europe, and Asia.