TRM Labs provides blockchain analytics and AI solutions to help law enforcement and national security agencies, financial institutions, and cryptocurrency businesses detect, investigate, and disrupt crypto-related fraud and financial crime. TRM’s blockchain intelligence and AI platforms include solutions to trace the source and destination of funds, identify illicit activity, build cases, and construct an operating picture of threats. TRM is trusted by leading agencies and businesses worldwide who rely on TRM to enable a safer, more secure world for all.
We’re looking for a Senior Software Engineer to join our Blockchain Protocol team — a group that builds systems to analyze and instrument blockchain peer-to-peer (P2P) networks. The systems you build will surface hidden insights about how blockchain nodes communicate, propagate transactions, and behave under real-world network conditions.
You’ll work across network protocols, distributed systems, and large-scale data ingestion, designing software that collects, analyzes, and transforms node-level data into actionable intelligence.
The impact you’ll have here:
- Operate and scale blockchain nodes across multiple chains (Bitcoin, Ethereum, Tron, BSC) to enable deep network visibility
- Research and instrument blockchain and network protocols to extract proprietary telemetry data.
- Build and maintain distributed data-collection systems and ingestion pipelines (Python, Airflow, GCP).
- Design and optimize message propagation, peer discovery, and re-org detection pipelines.
- Collaborate with researchers and data engineers to turn raw network data into high-impact intelligence for TRM’s products.
What we’re looking for:
- Proven experience in distributed systems, data ingestion, or protocol engineering.
- Strong programming skills in Python and at least one systems language (Rust, C++, or Go).
- Experience working with network protocols (TCP/IP, libp2p, gRPC, RPCs) or operating large-scale data systems.
- Familiarity with cloud infrastructure and orchestration tools (GCP, Kubernetes, Terraform, Airflow).
- Understanding of network-level behaviors such as message propagation or synchronization.
- Excellent verbal and written communication skills; clear documentation and succinct communication are very important.
- Ability to work independently, be proactive, prioritize, communicate, and set and meet goals
- Flexibility to coordinate across global time zones and an ability to work independently with minimal oversight
- A passion for solving complex network and protocol challenges at scale, and building systems that are robust, performant, and secure
Bonus Points:
- Experience running or instrumenting blockchain nodes (Bitcoin, Ethereum, etc.).
- Prior work with network observability or telemetry systems (Kafka, Arrow, gRPC).
- Contributions to open-source networking or blockchain infrastructure projects.
Why TRM Labs:
You’ll sit at the intersection of research, data, and engineering — designing systems that extract insights no public API exposes. Our team operates blockchain nodes at scale, instruments network behavior, and partners with data scientists to turn raw network telemetry into intelligence that helps build a safer financial system.
About TRM's Engineering Levels:Engineer: Responsible for helping to define project milestones and executing small decision 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.
We are building a safer world. That promise shows up in how we work every day.
TRM runs fast. Really fast. We’re a high‑velocity, high‑ownership team that expects clarity, follow‑through, and impact. People who thrive here are energized by hard problems, experimentation, and direct feedback. If something takes months elsewhere, it often ships here in days.
That pace isn’t for everyone. If you are optimizing primarily for consistent work-life balance, use the interview process to pressure-test fit. We want teammates who thrive here, not just survive here.
Leadership PrinciplesWe hire and grow against three leadership principles. They’re the standards for how we operate, treat each other, and make decisions.
- Impact-Oriented Trailblazer: We put customers first and move with speed, focus, and adaptability. We treat every plan like an experiment – test, ship, measure, and iterate quickly.
- Master Craftsperson: We care deeply about our craft. We balance speed with high standards, own outcomes end‑to‑end, and invest in getting better everyday.
- Inspiring Colleague: We add clarity and energy, not noise. We bring humility, candor, and a one‑team mindset — giving and receiving feedback to make the team stronger.
Learn more: Interviewing at TRM: How We Hire and What Success Looks Like
The impact you will haveThis work has real stakes. Depending on your role at TRM, your week might look like:
- Driving critical investigations that can’t wait for typical business hours.
- Shipping products in days when others would schedule quarters.
- Partnering with teams across time zones to deliver insights while the story is still unfolding.
- Building new solutions from first principles when the playbook doesn’t yet exist.
- Protecting victims and customers by tracing illicit activity and disrupting criminal networks.
At TRM we care deeply about our craft. We are looking for individuals who want their work to matter, who experiment with speed and rigor, and who take pride in building a safer world for billions of people. If you’re excited by TRM’s mission but don’t check every box, we encourage you to apply — we hire for slope, judgment, and the will to learn fast.
TRM is a Series C company with $220M in total funding, backed by Blockchain Capital, Goldman Sachs, Bessemer, Y Combinator, Thoma Bravo, and others. Headquartered in San Francisco, TRM operates as a distributed-first company with hubs in Los Angeles, San Francisco, New York, Washington D.C., London, and Singapore.
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TRM Labs is a blockchain intelligence company that helps financial institutions, crypto businesses and government agencies detect and investigate crypto-related financial crime and fraud. Every day, we tackle challenges in data engineering, data science, and threat intelligence to advance our mission to build a safer financial system for billions of people.
We have raised over $79M from JPMorgan Chase, Visa, Citi, PayPal, Block, Initialized Capital, Tiger Global, Bessemer, and Y Combinator.
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