Engineering Manager, Data Platform

Summary

Join TRM Labs, a blockchain intelligence company, and become an Engineering Manager on the Data Platform team. Lead and develop a high-impact team of engineers, providing technical and cultural leadership. Manage the quality and delivery of the team's work, ensuring the availability and performance of critical services. Collaborate with various teams to resolve production incidents and prioritize roadmap objectives. Build highly reliable data services, develop ETL pipelines, and design data models for optimal storage and retrieval. Work with data scientists and product managers to implement new data models supporting TRM's products. The role requires a Bachelor's degree in Computer Science or a related field, 5+ years of experience in building distributed system architecture, and strong programming skills in Python, SQL, or SparkSQL. The company offers a remote-first work environment, generous benefits including PTO, holidays, and parental leave, and opportunities for career growth and development.

Requirements

• Bachelor's degree (or equivalent) in Computer Science or a related field
• 5+ years of experience building distributed system architecture, from whiteboard to production
• Strong programming skills in Python, and SQL or SparkSQL
• Versatility. Experience across the entire spectrum of data engineering, including: Data stores (e.g., ClickHouse, ElasticSearch, Postgres, Redis, and Neo4j)
• Data pipeline and workflow orchestration tools (e.g., Airflow, DBT, Luigi, Azkaban, Storm)
• Data processing technologies and streaming workflows (e.g., Spark, Kafka, Flink)
• Deployment and monitoring infrastructure in public cloud platforms (e.g., Docker, Terraform, Kubernetes, Datadog)
• Loading, querying, and transforming large data sets

Responsibilities

• Lead and develop a team of talented, high-impact engineers, providing cultural, technical, and hands-on leadership
• Provide regular coaching and technical mentorship to your immediate team as well as the broader engineering department
• Take direct responsibility for the quality and delivery of the team's work, and manage the end-to-end availability and performance of critical services
• Drive work based on goals and measurable outcomes that are accountable to KPIs
• Encourage best practices in design and usability, creating scalable engines with thorough documentation and knowledge sharing
• Resolve escalations arising from operations and work with various teams to solve production incidents through to resolution
• Collaborate with management and product teams to plan, estimate, and prioritize roadmap objectives and identify upcoming opportunities and risks
• Build highly reliable data services to integrate with dozens of blockchains
• Develop ETL pipelines that transform and process petabytes of structured and unstructured data in real time
• Design data models for optimal storage and retrieval to support sub-second latency for querying blockchain data
• Deploy and monitor large database clusters that are performant and highly available
• Work cross-functionally with data scientists, backend engineers and product managers to design and implement, and new data models to support TRM’s products

Benefits

• The estimated base salary range for this role is $220,000 - $240,000
• Additionally, this role may be eligible to participate in TRM’s equity plan
• PTO
• Holidays
• Parental Leave for full time employees
• Remote work