TRM Labs
Senior Software Engineer, Data Infrastructure (RDBMS) (LATAM)
North America · Senior
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About the role
- The Data Platform team is distributed, not distant.
- We operate async-first across US and Canada working hours with intentional synchronous touchpoints when speed demands it
- The scope is large, the mission is real, and the work is technically demanding
Responsibilities
- Written-first culture: technical specs and decision docs drive alignment before code
- Within the first quarter, identify a compression opportunity with AI-assisted analysis, validate it with a proof of concept, and ship it to production for a measurable storage-cost reduction with zero availability impact
- Within 90 days, coordinate a schema change across three product-engineering teams in parallel and deliver the platform changes ahead of a product deadline so a customer feature ships on time
- Our process is designed to understand how you think, solve problems, and deliver impact, while allowing you to evaluate TRM.
- We are building a safer world.
- This environment is energizing for people who enjoy building, solving hard problems, and making progress in situations that are not always fully defined.
- We balance speed with high standards, own outcomes end‑to‑end, and invest in getting better everyday.
Requirements
- Before applying, review the job description carefully and highlight the experience and impact that best demonstrate the required qualifications.
- Operating with a high degree of ambiguity
Skills
- BUILD A SAFER WORLD.
- TRM Labs provides AI-powered intelligence solutions that help public and private sector agencies investigate and disrupt crime.
- Leading agencies and businesses worldwide rely on TRM to make the world safer and more secure.
- Protect data integrity and latency by driving agentic validation of database changes before they reach production
- Keep real-time data flowing by managing CDC pipelines (PeerDB, Fivetran, Debezium) and using AI tooling to debug replication failures faster
- Raise the whole team's leverage by codifying your workflows into AI-native runbooks and internal tooling that teammates reuse
Compensation
- Your recruiter will present the offer and compensation details.
Company info
- The Data Platform team is distributed, not distant. We operate async-first across US and Canada working hours with intentional synchronous touchpoints when speed demands it
- We own the petabyte-scale data infrastructure that powers TRM's products. The scope is large, the mission is real, and the work is technically demanding
- Team culture is product-focused, customer-focused, coaching-oriented, scrappy when needed, and process-oriented when executing against OKRs
- You will work alongside senior engineers who care deeply about their craft and hold high standards for code quality, operational excellence, and cross-team communication
- Team Operating Rhythms:
- Distributed, not distant: most collaboration happens async in Slack, Notion, and GitHub, and meetings are purposeful and minimal
- Primary timezone overlap across US and Canada working hours; our north star is no IC spending more than 3-4 hours per week in meetings
- We are a high-velocity, high-ownership team that expects clarity, follow-through, and impact.
- Impact-Oriented Trailblazer: We put customers first and move with speed, focus, and adaptability.
- At TRM, we care deeply about our craft.
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