TRM Labs is a blockchain intelligence company dedicated to fighting crime and creating a safer world for billions of people. By leveraging blockchain data, threat intelligence, and advanced analytics, our products empower governments, financial institutions, and crypto businesses to safeguard communities from illicit activity and global security threats.
At TRM Labs, you’ll be part of a mission-driven, fast-paced environment where your work directly contributes to building a safer future. Our team combines expertise in law enforcement, data science, engineering, and financial intelligence to address complex challenges. Whether you're analyzing blockchain data, developing cutting-edge tools, or collaborating with global organizations, every day brings the opportunity to make a meaningful and lasting impact.
The Core Data Ingest team is comprised of engineers who work cross-functionally to build data pipelines that enable us to ingest valuable information to further enhance the attribution displayed to our customers in our product. As a Software Engineer on the Core Data Ingestion team, you will be responsible for executing mission-critical systems and data services that ingest and analyze blockchain transaction activity at petabyte scale, and ultimately work to build a safer financial system for billions of people.
The impact you’ll have here:
- Build highly reliable data services to integrate with dozens of blockchains.
- Develop complex ETL pipelines that transform and process petabytes of structured and unstructured data in real-time.
- Design and architect intricate data models for optimal storage and retrieval to support sub-second latency for querying blockchain data.
- Collaborate across departments, partnering with data scientists, backend engineers, and product managers to design and implement novel data models that enhance TRM’s products.
What we’re looking for:
- Write high-quality code. We mostly work in Python. However, languages can be learned: we care much more about your general engineering skill than knowledge of a particular language or framework.
- Versatility. Experience across the entire spectrum of data engineering, including:
- Data stores (e.g., ClickHouse, ElasticSearch, Postgres, Redis, and Neo4j)
- Data pipeline and workflow orchestration tools (e.g., Airflow, DBT, Luigi, Azkaban, Storm)
- Data processing technologies and streaming workflows (e.g., Spark, Kafka, Flink)
- Deployment and monitoring infrastructure in public cloud platforms (e.g., Docker, Terraform, Kubernetes, Datadog)
- Loading, querying and transforming large data sets
- You're comfortable working with noisy, dirty, and unstructured data to cleanse, scrape and convert it into structured data
- A high degree of initiative and ownership, combined with the ability to navigate ambiguity and adapt quickly to change.
- Exceptional ability to structure problems and identify the most critical issues to prioritize.
- Ability to communicate complex ideas effectively to both technical and non-technical audiences, verbally and in writing.
- Experience working collaboratively in a cross-functional environment with a diverse group of people at all levels in an organization
- Passion for building a safer financial system for billions of people.
- Interest in virtual currencies, applications, and their use in financial networks and blockchain analysis is a plus.
About TRM's Engineering Levels:
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.
Leadership Principles
Our Leadership Principles are foundational elements of our strategy, guiding how we make decisions, how we treat each other, and how we behave day-to-day.
- Impact-Oriented Trailblazer – We put customers first, driving for speed, focus, and adaptability.
- Master Craftsperson – We prioritize speed, high standards, and distributed ownership.
- Inspiring Colleague – We value humility, candor, and a one-team mindset.
Build a Career
Joining TRM means being part of a mission-driven team comprised of industry leaders. At TRM, you'll experience:
- Purpose – Have a real-world impact, from disrupting terrorist networks to returning stolen funds.
- Inspiring Colleagues – Collaborate with industry leaders and learn something new daily.
- Career Growth – We embrace a growth mindset and provide development opportunities that increase skills relevant to your position.
Thriving at TRM
At TRM Labs, being a remote-first company is fundamental to our identity and operations. We are intentional about building a culture that thrives across time zones and continents, where communication is clear, documentation is thorough, and relationships are meaningful.
Building strong, trust-based relationships is a core value. Through thoughtful investments in offsites, regional hub meetups, virtual coffee chats, and onboarding buddies, we foster connections that enable effective collaboration. By creating spaces for meaningful interactions, we support a culture of high trust and belonging, essential to a thriving remote-first team.
This remote-first model enables us to derive the unique value of a globally distributed team while staying true to our mission and values, ensuring impact, alignment, and a culture of continuous improvement.
Join Us
We're looking for team members who love building from the ground up and want to work hard in a fast-paced and ambitious environment. We are remote-first, with exceptionally talented team members located around the world. If you like solving tough problems quickly and seeing your work improve the lives of billions of people, we want you at TRM.
We encourage you to reach out even if your experience doesn't precisely match the job description. Don't worry about picking exactly the right job; we can always explore other options after starting the conversation. Your passion and interests will set you apart, especially if your background or career is unconventional.
To all recruitment agencies: TRM Labs does not accept unsolicited agency resumes. Please do not forward resumes to TRM Labs employees. TRM Labs is not responsible for any fees related to unsolicited resumes and will not pay fees to any third-party agency or company that does not have a signed agreement with the Company.
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