Senior or Staff Software Engineer, Data Infrastructure

Summary

Join TRM Labs, a blockchain intelligence company fighting crime and building a safer world, as a Data Infrastructure Engineer. You will design, maintain, and scale petabyte-scale databases, build and optimize data pipelines, diagnose and tune SQL queries, and own key infrastructure initiatives. Collaborate with data scientists, engineers, and product managers to deliver reliable data workflows. This role requires 5+ years of experience in data engineering and expertise with databases like Postgres, MySQL, or SQL Server. You'll need strong SQL skills and experience designing data models. The position offers opportunities to make a meaningful impact and work with a mission-driven team.

Requirements

• 5+ years of experience in data engineering, analytics infrastructure, or backend systems with RDBMS depth
• Experience implementing and maintaining database security measures, including access control, encryption, and compliance with security frameworks and standards
• Proven expertise with at least one of: Postgres, MySQL, or SQL Server at production scale (e.g., TB-scale datasets, concurrency, replication, tuning)
• Strong command of SQL reasoning—you know how to debug, explain, and optimize queries, not just write them
• Experience designing and evolving data models (normalized and denormalized) to support analytical or operational use cases
• Familiarity with data pipeline frameworks (e.g., Airflow, DBT, custom orchestration)
• Systems thinking and ownership mindset—you’re comfortable solving ambiguous, cross-functional problems from end to end

Responsibilities

• Design and maintain petabyte scale high-performance databases and data models that support real-time investigations and analytics use cases
• Build and optimize production data pipelines—batch and streaming—that transform large-scale blockchain datasets
• Diagnose and tune complex SQL queries under heavy load, working closely with product and research teams
• Own key infrastructure initiatives—from query optimization and index strategy to storage optimization and system resilience
• Collaborate cross-functionally to deliver reliable and impactful data workflows end-to-end

Benefits

• Work alongside top experts and learn every day
• Embrace a growth mindset with development opportunities tailored to your role
• Take on high-impact challenges in a fast-paced, collaborative environment
• Thrive in a culture of coaching, where feedback is fast, direct, and built to help you level up. We expect everyone to both give and receive feedback as part of how we get better—together
• PTO
• Holidays
• Parental Leave for full time employees
• Remote work