Senior or Staff Software Engineer, TRM Labs
Database Infrastructure
$200-255k
Digital Asset Compliance & Risk Management
Open for applications
Digital Asset Compliance & Risk Management
201-500 employees
Open for applications
$200-255k
201-500 employees
Company mission
TRM Labs' mission is to blend blockchain data with advanced analytics to help financial institutions and governments fight fraud, money laundering, and financial crime.
Role
Who you are
- 5- 8 years of hands-on experience in database design, development, and enterprise-class operations with one or more of the following technologies: PostgreSQL, MySQL, Aurora PostgreSQL, Aurora MySQL
- Experience managing a highly reliable database platform with a focus on security, performance, and scale to meet the requirements of enterprise customers
- Experience migrating mission-critical database applications from on-premise to the cloud or managing a hybrid cloud environment for large enterprise applications
- Proficient in data modeling for OLTP and OLAP workloads
- Extensive experience in performance monitoring, troubleshooting, and performance tuning
- Experience influencing product roadmap and strategy, and prioritizing existing database initiatives to drive business outcomes
- Experience writing high-performance Postgres modules and extensions to optimize database performance
What the job involves
- The Data Platform team collaborates with an experienced group of data scientists, engineers, and product managers to build highly available and scalable data infrastructure for TRM's products and services
- As a Senior Database Engineer, you will be responsible for developing, managing, and scaling TRM’s robust database infrastructure that will ultimately help to build a safer financial system for billions of people
- Design, implement, and maintain Petabyte scale relational database systems with a focus on availability, security, performance, and scalability
- Work closely with cross-functional teams to plan and execute database infrastructure build-outs, upgrades, and migrations
- Serve as an expert in database performance, scalability, query tuning, monitoring, and incident response
- Manage data replication in environments serving both batch and real-time use cases
- Independently troubleshoot and resolve production and pre-production issues in a timely manner
- Contribute to major system upgrades, deployment automation, monitoring enhancements, and production changes
- Create operational playbooks, contribute to documentation, and gain domain expertise to drive changes within the team
- Tune and configure databases, as well as build tools and scripts to monitor, troubleshoot, and automate our systems
- Senior Engineer: Successfully designs and documents system improvements and features for an OKR/project from the ground up
- Consistently delivers efficient and reusable systems, optimizes team throughput with appropriate tradeoffs, mentors team members, and enhances cross-team collaboration through documentation and knowledge sharing
- Staff Engineer: Drives scoping and execution of one or more OKRs/projects that impact multiple teams. Partners with stakeholders to set the team vision and technical roadmaps for one or more products
- Is a role model and mentor to the entire engineering organization. Ensures system health and quality with operational reviews, testing strategies, and monitoring rigor
- The Data Platform team is the funnel between all of TRM's data world and product world. We care about all layers of stack including petabyte of data stores, pipelines, and processes
- We have quite a big scope as a the team with new and exciting projects every quarter. As a result, we collaborate across the board with most teams at TRM
- We believe in async communication and are also not afraid to jump on a quick huddle if that helps to move things faster. We are both scrappy when the situation demands and also process-oriented when we need to achieve our OKRs
Our take
The crypto space has become more mainstream but it is also intensely volatile and poorly regulated, with a high degree of anonymity afforded to its users. As such it has become a major source of financial fraud with $20 billion in crypto stolen in 2022 alone. TRM Lab exists to return trust to the blockchain, helping banks, government agencies and crypto companies detect and combat fraud with its blockchain intelligence solutions.
As the risk of blockchain fraud is only increasing, with the proceeds often being used for organized crime, there are a number of companies working in this space. TRM stands out with the breadth of its crypto asset coverage and the strength of its cross-chain analytics. It has partnered with the FBI and Europol to aid its investigations, and is also used by major crypto companies MoonPay and Binance.
The company has grown its revenue by almost 500% year on year since its founding in 2018, and has recently raised a significant amount of capital in a Series B fundraising round. It is planning to use this money to further develop its product and hire additional talent. As businesses and government agencies increasingly come to grips with fraud in the crypto space, TRM is well poised to continue its rapid growth.
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Insights
Few candidates hear
back within 2 weeks
42% employee growth in 12 months
Company
Funding (last 2 of 6 rounds)
Nov 2022
$70m
SERIES B
Dec 2021
$60m
SERIES B
Total funding: $150.1m
Company benefits
- Remote-first work environment, with optional in-person offices
- Regular team off-sites and retreats
- Premium health, dental, and vision insurance
- FSA, HSA, and 401K programs
- Life & disability coverage
- Paid time for vacations, volunteering, sick leave, and generous parental leave
- Fitness, co-working, and home office reimbursements
- Professional learning and development stipends
Company values
- Impact-Oriented Trailblazers: We apply 80/20 prioritization to set high-impact targets, with a bias for customer centricity and adaptability.
- Master Craftspersons: We execute efficiently to achieve goals with sound judgement, optimal velocity, and grit.
- Inspiring Colleagues: We strive to elevate team performance through integrity, apprenticeship, and positive energy.
Company HQ
SoMa, San Francisco, CA
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Leadership
Esteban Castaño
(CEO)Former Business Analyst at McKinsey & Company. Founded the Digital team at Generation, a high growth youth employment program, before launching TRM in 2018.
Rahul Raina
(CTO)Former Senior Business Analyst at McKinsey & Company. Former Software Engineer at Amazon Web Services and Opendoor.
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