Senior Software Engineer, Database Engineer

🕒 September 23

🌐 United States, Canada – Remote

🇺🇸 United States – Remote 🇨🇦 Canada – Remote

💵 $200k - $220k / year

⏰ Full Time

🟠 Senior

🔙 Backend Engineer

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📋 Compliance

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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 database serving layer end to end, including query performance, cost, and availability • Tune queries, design indexes, and optimize schemas for petabyte-scale Postgres/Citus • Use AI-assisted analysis to identify compression and data-model opportunities and ship validated production changes • Build agentic automation for database operations such as pgbouncer provisioning, disk scaling, and blue-green deployments • Validate database changes before production deployment • Manage CDC pipelines using PeerDB, Fivetran, and Debezium and debug replication failures • Migrate workloads from first-generation infrastructure and prototype new data stores • Create AI-native runbooks and internal tooling • Collaborate asynchronously across US and Canada working hours • Coordinate schema changes across multiple product-engineering teams • Participate in an on-call rotation

🎯 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 • 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 • Ability to participate in an on-call rotation approximately once every 15 days, subject to regional compliance review

🏖️ Benefits

• Equity plan eligibility • AI coding tools and AI-native internal tooling • Distributed remote work across US and Canada working hours • Async-first, written-first work culture • Minimal, purposeful meetings • Professional growth through coaching and collaboration • Reasonable accommodations for applicants with disabilities

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