Senior Data Platform Engineer - AI Platform
Remote • United States • FullTime
Posted 2mo ago
About the job
TRM Labs is seeking a Senior Data Platform Engineer to join the Data Platform Serving team, focusing on the StarRocks-backed serving layer for government cloud investigations. This role is crucial for maintaining the speed, reliability, and compliance of this environment as it scales. You will work alongside the current domain owner, gaining hands-on distributed systems experience in a high-availability, regulated setting. The position offers a unique opportunity to impact the performance and resilience of critical data infrastructure used by public sector agencies.
Responsibilities
- Own performance tuning on the StarRocks serving layer, utilizing AI-assisted query profiling to identify and resolve slow query patterns.
- Build and harden data pipelines for government cloud investigations, leveraging AI code review workflows for efficient and reliable changes.
- Reduce single-point-of-failure risk by becoming a second engineer capable of independently operating and troubleshooting the serving layer.
- Use AI-assisted debugging and log analysis to triage and resolve production issues in a regulated environment.
- Collaborate with Forward Deployed Engineering and Product teams to ensure government cloud environment parity with the commercial platform.
Requirements
- U.S. citizenship is required due to government cloud data access requirements.
- Hands-on experience operating distributed OLAP or serving-layer systems (e.g., StarRocks, Trino, ClickHouse), including query tuning and performance optimization at scale.
- Experience owning data pipeline reliability and incident response.
- Comfort using AI tools (e.g., Claude, Cursor) to accelerate debugging, code review, and documentation.
- Independent ownership mindset with the ability to quickly ramp up on unfamiliar production infrastructure using AI-assisted research and code exploration.
- Willingness to take on-call responsibility with minimal oversight.