Data Platform Engineer - AI Platform
TRM Labs · Remote · United States · North America ·
COMPENSATION
€•• – ••k
Listed on the employer's job board (Ashby)
- Fully remote (US citizens)
- StarRocks + Distributed OLAP
- AI-assisted workflows
- Government cloud focus
- High-ownership culture
Join the Data Platform Serving team to maintain the high-availability infrastructure supporting public sector investigations. You will work on the StarRocks-backed serving layer, ensuring it remains fast, reliable, and compliant as it scales. This role offers the chance to build distributed systems experience in a demanding, regulated government cloud deployment.
What you'll do
- Tune StarRocks serving layer performance using AI-assisted query profiling
- Build and harden data pipelines for government cloud investigations
- Reduce single-point-of-failure risks by sharing operational ownership
- Triage production issues using AI-assisted debugging and log analysis
- Ship reliable changes faster using AI code review workflows
What you'll need
- U.S. citizenship is mandatory for government cloud access
- Experience operating distributed OLAP or serving-layer systems
- Proficiency in query tuning and performance optimization at scale
- Comfort using AI tools like Claude or Cursor for debugging
- Ability to independently own infrastructure and on-call duties
Stack
- StarRocks
- Claude
- Trino
- ClickHouse
- Cursor
How you'll work
- Distributed-first company with hubs in major US cities
- Weekly team syncs for incidents and infrastructure work
- Asynchronous daily updates via Slack
- Sprint-based planning with clear ownership
- On-call responsibility for the serving layer
What you get
- Backed by Goldman Sachs, Bessemer, and Y Combinator
- Opportunity to impact national security and crime disruption
- Work with a high-velocity, high-ownership team
- Access to internal AI tools for workflow acceleration
Hiring process
- Recruiter intro call
- Hiring manager deep dive
- Technical skills interviews
- Hands-on case study panel
- Reference checks
- Offer presentation