Senior Software Engineer, Data Infrastructure – RDBMS

🕒 October 21

🇺🇸 United States – Remote

⏰ Full Time

🟠 Senior

🚰 Data Engineer

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TRM Labs

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201 - 500 employees

Founded 2018

₿ Crypto

📋 Compliance

🤝 B2B

Crypto • Compliance • B2B

TRM Labs is a blockchain intelligence company that provides transaction-monitoring, forensics, and compliance solutions for businesses and public-sector organizations dealing with cryptocurrencies. Their platform and products (examples: Compliance360, Investigation360, Seizure360, Supervision360, BlockInt API, MCP, wallet screening, Know-Your-Asset) help banks, crypto firms, regulators, law enforcement, and tax authorities detect, investigate, and block illicit crypto activity, support seizures, and meet AML/CTF and supervision requirements. TRM also offers training and certification (TRM Academy) and professional services such as incident response and capacity development.

📋 Description

• Develop, operate, and scale relational database systems serving data at petabyte scale • Own the serving layer end to end, including query performance, cost, and availability • Maintain five-nines customer-facing API performance and availability through query tuning, index design, and schema optimization • Use AI-assisted analysis with pganalyze and Claude to identify and ship compression and data-model improvements • Build agentic automation for pgbouncer provisioning, disk scaling, and blue-green deployments • Drive validation of database changes before production deployment • Manage CDC pipelines using PeerDB, Fivetran, and Debezium • Debug replication failures using AI tooling • Migrate workloads from first-generation infrastructure and prototype new data stores • Create AI-native runbooks and internal tooling • Collaborate asynchronously with distributed teams across US and Canada working hours • Participate in an on-call rotation approximately once every 15 days, with each shift a 24-hour window across 2 days

🎯 Requirements

• 5–8 years building and operating production PostgreSQL (Citus, Aurora, AlloyDB, or equivalent distributed Postgres) • Deep SQL optimization skills, including Explain Plans, CTEs, window functions, partitioning, index design, and query-planner behavior in distributed environments • Hands-on experience with CDC tools such as PeerDB, Fivetran, Debezium, Datastream, or Airbyte • Fluency with database profiling using pganalyze or equivalent to interpret metrics and logs • Production automation experience in Python or Go • Daily use of AI coding tools such as Claude or Copilot • Track record of using AI-assisted analysis to drive measurable cost or performance improvements in production database systems • Willingness and ability to participate in an on-call rotation • Ability to work across US and Canada working hours • Participation in in-person R&D work weeks and potential additional travel • AI fluency is a baseline expectation and is evaluated during interviews

🏖️ Benefits

• In-person R&D work weeks typically 1–2 times per quarter • TRM coordinates and covers approved travel, lodging, and workspace for work weeks • Accommodations for legitimate caregiving, health, immigration, and similar constraints • Competitive benefits, wellness programs, and time away from work, varying by country and local employment requirements

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