Senior Data Engineer — GovCloud Data Pipelines & AI Tuning

TRM Labs; Northern (KY); Hybrid; USD 120,000 - 160,000; Full time

Job summary

TRM Labs in the United States is building a safer world through AI-powered investigations. We are seeking an engineer to own the GovCloud data serving layer, tune performance, harden data pipelines, and reduce single points of failure while collaborating across teams in a fast-paced, high-ownership environment.

AI tools and on-call responsibility are part of the role. Join a team that balances rigorous reliability with rapid delivery, working on StarRocks-backed services and complex production

Qualifications

• U.S. citizenship is required for this role due to government cloud data access requirements.
• 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.

Responsibilities

• You will own performance tuning on the StarRocks serving layer, using AI-assisted query profiling (Claude, internal tooling) to find and fix slow query patterns before they become customer-facing incidents.
• You will build and harden data pipelines feeding government cloud investigations, using AI code review workflows to ship reliable changes faster in a high-compliance environment where mistakes are costly.
• You will reduce single-point-of-failure risk on GovCloud data infrastructure by becoming the second engineer who can independently operate and troubleshoot the serving layer, cutting incident response time when the primary owner is unavailable.
• You will use AI-assisted debugging and log analysis to triage production issues in a regulated environment, turning multi-hour investigations into rapid root-cause fixes.

Skills

Distributed OLAP

StarRocks

Trino

ClickHouse

Data pipelines

Tools

StarRocks

Trino

ClickHouse

Job description

TRM Labs in the United States is building a safer world through AI-powered investigations. We are seeking an engineer to own the GovCloud data serving layer, tune performance, harden data pipelines, and reduce single points of failure while collaborating across teams in a fast-paced, high-ownership environment.

AI tools and on-call responsibility are part of the role. Join a team that balances rigorous reliability with rapid delivery, working on StarRocks-backed services and complex production