Senior Data Engineer - AI Platform (Remote GovCloud)

TRM Labs; United States; Hybrid; USD 140,000 - 190,000; Full time

Job summary

TRM Labs seeks a Data Platform Serving engineer to own the StarRocks-based serving layer in a government cloud environment. You will tune queries, harden data pipelines, and ensure reliability in a high-compliance setting across a distributed team.

The role emphasizes on-call ownership, AI-assisted debugging, and rapid incident response, with opportunities to influence architecture and improve performance at scale.

Qualifications

• Hands-on experience operating distributed OLAP or serving-layer systems (StarRocks, Trino, ClickHouse, or similar), including query tuning and performance optimization at scale.
• Experience owning data pipeline reliability and incident response, and comfort using AI tools (Claude, Cursor, or similar) to accelerate debugging, code review, and documentation.
• Independent ownership mindset: you can pick up an unfamiliar piece of production infrastructure, use AI-assisted research and code exploration to ramp quickly, and take on-call responsibility with minimal oversight.

Skills

Distributed systems

OLAP

On-call ownership

Tools

StarRocks

Trino

ClickHouse

Claude/Cursor AI tools

Job description

TRM Labs seeks a Data Platform Serving engineer to own the StarRocks-based serving layer in a government cloud environment. You will tune queries, harden data pipelines, and ensure reliability in a high-compliance setting across a distributed team.

The role emphasizes on-call ownership, AI-assisted debugging, and rapid incident response, with opportunities to influence architecture and improve performance at scale.