Tech Lead, Staff Software Engineer, Data Product (US)

As a Tech Lead, Staff Software Engineer on TRM Labs' Data Product team, you design and build mission-critical data services that analyze blockchain transaction activity at petabyte scale. You partner with data scientists, engineers, and product managers to create highly scalable features that integrate with dozens of blockchains, ultimately helping build a safer financial system.

What you'll do

• Build highly scalable features that integrate with dozens of blockchains
• Design and architect 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 docs, proactively share tradeoffs, and build alignment across disciplines
• Drive scoping and execution of one or more OKRs/projects that impact multiple teams, partner with stakeholders to set the team vision and technical roadmaps, and mentor the engineering organization

What you bring

• Bachelor's degree (or equivalent) in Computer Science or a related field
• 5+ years of hands-on experience architecting scalable API development and distributed system architecture, guiding projects from initial ideation through successful production deployment
• Exceptional programming skills in Python, as well as adeptness in SQL or SparkSQL
• In-depth experience with data stores such as BigQuery and Postgres
• Proven ability building pipelines, data platforms, or ML/BI workflows from scratch
• Ability to simplify complexity and communicate technical decisions clearly to both technical and non-technical stakeholders
• Cost-conscious mindset, designing for performance, scale, and efficiency
• Experience mentoring engineers or analysts
• 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, utilizing tools such as Docker, Terraform, Kubernetes, and Datadog
• Proven ability loading, querying, and transforming extensive datasets

Nice to have

• Experience with LLMs or AI-powered workflows such as prompt engineering, internal tooling, or semantic search

What we offer

• Base salary range of $200,000-$250,000
• 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. TRM is a Series C company with $220M in total funding, backed by Goldman Sachs, Bessemer, Y Combinator, Thoma Bravo, and others. 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.