Senior Data Platform Engineer – Scale Big Data & Security

TRM Labs; United States; On-site; USD 200,000 - 220,000; Full time

Job summary

TRM Labs is seeking a Data Infrastructure Engineer to design, build, and scale our data platforms that power investigations and analytics. You will own petabyte-scale databases, optimize complex queries, and build robust data pipelines in a fast-paced, security-conscious environment.

You will collaborate with data scientists, engineers, and product managers to ensure reliability, performance, and scalability across TRM’s data infrastructure for billions of blockchain datasets.

Qualifications

• 5+ years of experience in data engineering, analytics infrastructure, or backend systems with RDBMS depth.
• Experience implementing and maintaining database security measures, including access control, encryption, and compliance with security frameworks and standards.
• Proven expertise with at least one of: Postgres, MySQL, or SQL Server at production scale (TB-scale datasets, concurrency, replication, tuning).
• Strong command of SQL reasoning—you know how to debug, explain, and optimize queries, not just write them.

Responsibilities

• Design and maintain petabyte-scale high-performance databases and data models supporting real-time investigations and analytics.
• Build and optimize production data pipelines—batch and streaming for large blockchain datasets.
• Diagnose and tune complex SQL queries under heavy load, collaborating with product and research teams.
• Own key infrastructure initiatives—from query optimization and index strategy to storage optimization and resilience.
• Collaborate cross-functionally to deliver reliable and impactful data workflows end-to-end.

Skills

Data engineering

SQL optimization

RDBMS depth

Security practices

Data modeling

Airflow/DBT

Collaboration

Education

Bachelor's degree in CS/Engineering

Tools

Postgres

MySQL

SQL Server

Job description

TRM Labs is seeking a Data Infrastructure Engineer to design, build, and scale our data platforms that power investigations and analytics. You will own petabyte-scale databases, optimize complex queries, and build robust data pipelines in a fast-paced, security-conscious environment.

You will collaborate with data scientists, engineers, and product managers to ensure reliability, performance, and scalability across TRM’s data infrastructure for billions of blockchain datasets.