Senior Data Engineer – Blockchain Analytics

Precision Labs; San Francisco, Northern (CA, KY); Hybrid; USD 190,000 - 220,000; Full time

Job summary

TRM Labs is seeking a Senior Data Engineer to design and build mission-critical data services that analyze blockchain activity at petabyte scale. You will collaborate with data scientists, backend engineers, and product managers to create scalable data models and features that power TRM’s products.

Ideal candidates have 5+ years of experience in distributed systems, strong Python and SQL skills, and hands-on work with BigQuery, Postgres, Airflow, and DBT.

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree in CS or a related field.
• 5+ years of hands-on experience architecting scalable API development and distributed systems.
• Strong programming in Python and proficiency in SQL or SparkSQL.
• Experience with BigQuery and Postgres.
• Proficiency with Airflow and DBT for data pipelines.
• Experience with data processing and streaming technologies (Dataflow, Spark, Kafka, Flink).
• Ability to design scalable data models and communicate technical decisions clearly.
• Mentor engineers and analysts; focus on performance, scale, and cost efficiency.

Responsibilities

• Design and build mission-critical data services.
• Analyze and provide insights into blockchain transaction activity at large scale.
• Collaborate with data scientists, backend engineers, and product managers to implement data models.
• Develop scalable features integrating with multiple blockchains.
• Document design decisions and communicate tradeoffs across teams.

Skills

Python

SQL

SparkSQL

Data modeling

System design

Communication

Cost optimization

Mentoring

Education

Bachelor's degree in CS or related field

Tools

BigQuery

Postgres

Airflow

DBT

Dataflow

Spark

Kafka

Flink

Docker

Terraform

Kubernetes

Datadog

Job description

TRM Labs is seeking a Senior Data Engineer to design and build mission-critical data services that analyze blockchain activity at petabyte scale. You will collaborate with data scientists, backend engineers, and product managers to create scalable data models and features that power TRM’s products.

Ideal candidates have 5+ years of experience in distributed systems, strong Python and SQL skills, and hands-on work with BigQuery, Postgres, Airflow, and DBT.