Senior Software Engineer, TRM Labs
Data Infrastructure, RDBMS
$200-220k
Blockchain investigations & risk management
Open for applications
Blockchain investigations & risk management
201-500 employees
Open for applications
$200-220k
201-500 employees
Company mission
To build a safer financial system for billions of people.
Role
Who you are
- 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
What the job involves
- TRM Labs is a blockchain intelligence company committed to fighting crime and creating a safer world
- By leveraging blockchain data, threat intelligence, and advanced analytics, our products empower governments, financial institutions, and crypto businesses to combat illicit activity and global security threats
- At TRM, you'll join a mission-driven, fast-paced team made up of experts in law enforcement, data science, engineering, and financial intelligence, tackling complex global challenges daily
- Whether analyzing blockchain data, developing cutting-edge tools, or collaborating with global organizations, you'll have the opportunity to make a meaningful and lasting impact
- 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 Data Infrastructure 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 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
- 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
- We are always looking for people who can elevate the quality our tech and our execution. If you enjoy a remote-first and async friendly environment to achieve efficacy and efficiency at petabyte scale, our team could be a great pick for you!
- Team members are based in the US across almost all timezones! Our on-call tends to be in EST/PST shift, whatever suits you the best
- We do try to reserve some overlap in the day for meetings. Our north star - no IC spends more than 3-4 hours/week in meetings
- 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
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 raised a significant amount of capital. With the funding its secured, its further developing its product and hiring additional talent. And as businesses and government agencies increasingly come to grips with fraud in the crypto space, TRM is well poised to continue its rapid growth.
Steph
Company Specialist at Welcome to the Jungle
Insights
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
- DIstributed, not distant
- Competitive compensation package
- Paid time off: 25 days of vacation and competitive holistic paid time off plans
- Parental leave & family planning: 18 weeks of paid parental leave (if employed for at least 180 days unless the home state or country required less tenure). For select eligible regions, we also offer fertility treatments via the Carrot platform
- Health coverage: Premium coverage for medical, dental, vision and life insurance
- Company retreats
- Career growth
Company HQ
SoMa, San Francisco, CA
Leadership
Esteban Castaño
(Co-Founder & 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
(Co-Founder & CTO)Former Senior Business Analyst at McKinsey & Company. Former Software Engineer at Amazon Web Services and Opendoor.
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