TRM Labs-posted 5 months ago
$200,000 - $230,000/Yr
Full-time • Senior
101-250 employees

TRM Labs is a blockchain intelligence company committed to fighting crime and creating a safer world. By leveraging blockchain data, threat intelligence, and advanced analytics, our products empower governments, financial institutions, and crypto businesses to combat illicit activity and global security threats. At TRM, you'll join a mission-driven, fast-paced team made up of experts in law enforcement, data science, engineering, and financial intelligence, tackling complex global challenges daily. Whether analyzing blockchain data, developing cutting-edge tools, or collaborating with global organizations, you'll have the opportunity to make a meaningful and lasting impact. TRM Labs is seeking a Senior Backend Engineer to join our Data Product team, where you'll play a pivotal role in building and scaling backend systems that power real-time blockchain intelligence products. This is a deeply technical, backend-focused role ideal for engineers passionate about designing performant distributed systems and data platforms that serve high-throughput, low-latency use cases. As a Senior Engineer, you will architect core services that analyze petabyte-scale blockchain data, power high-fidelity data products, and contribute to TRM’s mission to build a safer financial system.

  • Design and implement scalable, reliable backend services and APIs that serve complex analytics and insights on blockchain activity.
  • Engineer data-centric microservices that power features across TRM’s intelligence platform, balancing performance, resilience, and modularity.
  • Own the full lifecycle of backend systems, from design and implementation to deployment, monitoring, and iteration.
  • Model and manage large-scale blockchain data, ensuring efficient access and rapid query performance across various products.
  • Collaborate across product, data science, and infrastructure teams to ensure seamless integration between backend systems and customer-facing features.
  • Drive technical architecture discussions for backend and data services, and mentor junior engineers on backend best practices.
  • 5+ years of backend engineering experience, with deep expertise in designing and scaling backend systems for data-rich applications.
  • Strong Python development skills; bonus if you've worked with Go or other typed backend languages in production.
  • Experience designing and maintaining robust APIs, including schema design, versioning, and system observability.
  • Expertise in distributed data systems: You have hands-on experience with technologies like Spark, Kafka, Flink, or Dataflow for large-scale data ingestion and transformation.
  • Deep familiarity with data stores like BigQuery and Postgres, including performance tuning for large, complex queries.
  • Production experience with workflow orchestration tools such as Airflow or dbt, and containerized deployment (Docker, Kubernetes).
  • Understanding of cloud infrastructure (e.g. GCP, AWS), including CI/CD pipelines, Terraform-based deployments, and observability with tools like Datadog or Prometheus.
  • Demonstrated success building high-impact backend systems that shipped to production and scaled with user or data growth.
  • Generous PTO
  • Holidays
  • Parental Leave for full time employees
  • Participation in TRM’s equity plan
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