Senior Software Engineer, Data Platform

Summary

Join TRM Labs, a blockchain intelligence company fighting crime globally. As a Senior Software Engineer on the Data Platform team, you will build and maintain highly scalable data infrastructure for our products, processing petabytes of blockchain transaction data. You'll collaborate with data scientists and engineers to design and implement data models, develop ETL pipelines, and oversee database deployments. This role requires a Bachelor's degree in Computer Science or a related field, 5+ years of experience in distributed system architecture, and strong programming skills in Python and SQL/SparkSQL. The company offers a competitive salary, equity participation, and a remote-first work environment.

Requirements

• A Bachelor's degree (or equivalent) in Computer Science or a related field
• A proven track record, with 5+ years of hands-on experience in architecting distributed system architecture, guiding projects from initial ideation through to successful production deployment
• Exceptional programming skills in Python, as well as adeptness in SQL or SparkSQL
• Proven ability in loading, querying, and transforming extensive datasets

Responsibilities

• Build highly reliable data services to integrate with dozens of blockchains
• Develop complex ETL pipelines that transform and process petabytes of structured and unstructured data in real-time
• Design and architect intricate data models for optimal storage and retrieval to support sub-second latency for querying blockchain data
• Oversee the deployment and monitoring of large database clusters with an unwavering focus on performance and high availability
• Collaborate across departments, partnering with data scientists, backend engineers, and product managers to design and implement novel data models that enhance TRM’s products
• Build scalable engines to optimize routine scaling and maintenance tasks like create self-serve automation for creating new pgbouncer, scaling disks, scaling/updating of clusters, etc
• Enable tasks to be faster next time and reducing dependency on a single person
• Identify ways to compress timelines using 80/20 principle . For instance, what does it take to be operational in a new environment? Identify the must have and nice to haves that are need to deploy our stack to be fully operation. Focus on must haves first to get us operational and then use future milestones to harden for customer readiness. We think in terms of weeks and not months
• Identify first version, a.k.a., " skateboards " for projects. For instance, build an observability dashboard within a week. Gather feedback from stakeholders after to identify more needs or bells and whistles to add to the dashboard

Preferred Qualifications

• In-depth experience with data stores such as Icerberg, Trino, BigQuery, and StarRocks, and Citus
• Proficiency in data pipeline and workflow orchestration tools like Airflow, DBT, etc
• Expertise in data processing technologies and streaming workflows including Spark, Kafka, and Flink
• Competence in deploying and monitoring infrastructure within public cloud platforms, utilizing tools such as Docker, Terraform, Kubernetes, and Datadog

Benefits

• The estimated base salary range for this role is $200,000 - $230,000
• Additionally, this role may be eligible to participate in TRM’s equity plan
• Remote-first work environment
• Development opportunities tailored to your role