Staff Data Platform Engineer - AI Platform
TRM Labs · Remote · United States · North America ·
COMPENSATION
€•• – ••k
Listed on the employer's job board (Ashby)
- Staff level role
- Fully remote (US)
- StarRocks + AI tools
- U.S. citizenship required
- High-availability systems
Join the Data Platform Serving team to maintain the infrastructure behind TRM’s government cloud 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 environment alongside the current domain owner.
What you'll do
- Tune StarRocks performance using AI-assisted query profiling to prevent incidents
- Harden data pipelines for government cloud investigations with AI code reviews
- Reduce single-point-of-failure risk by becoming the second operator for the serving layer
- Triage production issues rapidly using AI-assisted debugging and log analysis
- Ensure infrastructure meets strict compliance and availability standards
What you'll need
- Must hold U.S. citizenship for government cloud data access
- Experience operating distributed OLAP or serving-layer systems like StarRocks or ClickHouse
- Proven ability in query tuning and performance optimization at scale
- Comfort using AI tools such as Claude or Cursor for debugging and code review
- Strong ownership mindset with ability to troubleshoot unfamiliar infrastructure independently
Stack
- StarRocks
- Claude
- Cursor
- Trino
- ClickHouse
How you'll work
- Distributed-first company with hubs in major US cities and London
- Weekly team syncs for incident review and planning
- Asynchronous daily updates via Slack
- Sprint-based planning with clear ownership per workstream
- On-call responsibility for the serving layer infrastructure
What you get
- Backed by Goldman Sachs, Bessemer, and Y Combinator
- Opportunity to work on national security and crime disruption
- High-ownership culture with rapid shipping cycles
- Collaborative environment with direct technical discussions
Hiring process
- Recruiter intro to discuss qualifications and motivations
- Hiring manager interview focusing on experience and impact
- One or two technical interviews on critical role skills
- Final round panel with a hands-on case study
- Reference checks followed by offer presentation