Senior Data Platform Engineer: GovCloud & AI‑Driven Ops

TRM Labs; United States; Remote; USD 120,000 - 180,000; Full time

Job summary

TRM Labs is seeking a Senior Data Platform Engineer to own the StarRocks serving layer in our government cloud environment and drive reliability at scale. You will champion query tuning, pipeline reliability, and AI-assisted debugging to reduce incidents and accelerate safe changes.

You will join a fast-paced, high-ownership team that collaborates across Slack and docs, balancing speed with compliance and data integrity while shipping impactful features in days rather than months.

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

• Own performance tuning on the StarRocks serving layer, using AI-assisted query profiling to find and fix slow query patterns before they become customer-facing incidents.
• 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.
• 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.
• 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 systems

Query tuning

Performance optimization

AI tools usage

On-call readiness

Independent ownership

Tools

StarRocks

Trino

ClickHouse

Job description

TRM Labs is seeking a Senior Data Platform Engineer to own the StarRocks serving layer in our government cloud environment and drive reliability at scale. You will champion query tuning, pipeline reliability, and AI-assisted debugging to reduce incidents and accelerate safe changes.

You will join a fast-paced, high-ownership team that collaborates across Slack and docs, balancing speed with compliance and data integrity while shipping impactful features in days rather than months.