Senior Software Engineer, Data Infrastructure (RDBMS)

The Data Platform team collaborates with an experienced group of data scientists, engineers, and product managers to build highly available and scalable data infrastructure for TRM's products and services. As a Data Infrastructure Engineer, you will be responsible for developing, managing, and scaling TRM’s robust database infrastructure that will ultimately help to build a safer financial system for billions of people.

The impact you will have here:

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

What we’re looking for:

• 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 (e.g., TB-scale datasets, concurrency, replication, tuning)
• Strong command of SQL reasoning—you know how to debug, explain, and optimize queries, not just write them
• Experience designing and evolving data models (normalized and denormalized) to support analytical or operational use cases
• Familiarity with data pipeline frameworks (e.g., Airflow, DBT, custom orchestration)
• Systems thinking and ownership mindset—you’re comfortable solving ambiguous, cross-functional problems from end to end

Engineer: Responsible for helping to define project milestones and executing small decision decisions independently with the appropriate tradeoffs between simplicity, readability, and performance. Provides mentorship to junior engineers, and enhances operational excellence through tech debt reduction and knowledge sharing.

Senior Engineer: Successfully designs and documents system improvements and features for an OKR/project from the ground up. Consistently delivers efficient and reusable systems, optimizes team throughput with appropriate tradeoffs, mentors team members, and enhances cross-team collaboration through documentation and knowledge sharing.

Staff Engineer: Drives scoping and execution of one or more OKRs/projects that impact multiple teams. Partners with stakeholders to set the team vision and technical roadmaps for one or more products. Is a role model and mentor to the entire engineering organization. Ensures system health and quality with operational reviews, testing strategies, and monitoring rigor.