GovCloud Data Engineer: AI-Driven Performance & Reliability

TRM; United States; Remote; USD 150,000 - 230,000; Full time

Job summary

TRM Labs is seeking a hands-on Data Platform Engineer to own performance tuning on the StarRocks serving layer for government cloud investigations. You will build robust data pipelines, reduce single-point failures, and accelerate debugging with AI-assisted tools in a high-compliance environment.

We value independent ownership, strong incident response, and the ability to operate critical infrastructure with minimal supervision across a distributed team.

Qualifications

• Hands-on experience operating distributed OLAP or serving-layer systems (StarRocks, Trino, ClickHouse, or similar).
• Experience owning data pipeline reliability and incident response.
• Comfort using AI tools to accelerate debugging, code review, and documentation.
• Independent ownership mindset with on-call responsibility.

Responsibilities

• Own performance tuning on the StarRocks serving layer using AI-assisted query profiling to fix slow patterns.
• Build and harden data pipelines feeding government cloud investigations.
• Reduce single-point-of-failure risk by becoming the second engineer able to operate the serving layer.
• Use AI-assisted debugging and log analysis to triage production issues in a regulated environment.

Skills

OLAP systems

Query tuning

Incident response

AI-assisted tooling

Independent ownership

Tools

StarRocks

Trino

ClickHouse

Job description

TRM Labs is seeking a hands-on Data Platform Engineer to own performance tuning on the StarRocks serving layer for government cloud investigations. You will build robust data pipelines, reduce single-point failures, and accelerate debugging with AI-assisted tools in a high-compliance environment.

We value independent ownership, strong incident response, and the ability to operate critical infrastructure with minimal supervision across a distributed team.