Engineering Manager, Data Platform

The role

You will lead and nurture a team of engineers to build highly available and scalable data infrastructure. You will oversee the execution of mission-critical systems and data services that analyze blockchain transaction activity at petabyte scale.

What you will do

• Lead and nurture a team of high-impact engineers
• Provide regular coaching and technical mentorship
• Ensure quality and timely delivery of the team's work
• Oversee availability and performance of critical services
• Drive projects aligned with well-defined goals and KPIs
• Foster best practices in design, usability, and documentation
• Resolve operational escalations and production incidents
• Collaborate with management and product teams to plan and prioritize roadmaps
• Contribute to the creation of reliable data services for blockchains
• Engineer and optimize ETL pipelines for petabytes of data

Required qualifications

• 5+ years managing engineers, including a team of roughly 8–15
• Technical depth to read design docs and unblock engineers
• Ability to influence teams you do not manage
• Bachelor's degree (or equivalent) in Computer Science or a related field
• 5+ years of experience conceiving and implementing distributed systems
• Proficiency in Python
• Strong SQL or SparkSQL experience
• Experience with data stores such as ClickHouse, Elasticsearch, Postgres, Redis, and Neo4j
• Experience with data pipeline and workflow orchestration tools such as Airflow, DBT, Luigi, Azkaban, and Storm
• Experience with data processing technologies and streaming workflows including Spark, Kafka, and Flink
• Experience with infrastructure deployment and monitoring using Docker, Terraform, Kubernetes, and Datadog
• Ability to load, query, and transform large-scale, complex datasets

Nice to have

• Sharing leadership views publicly through writing, talks, open source, or community

Benefits

• Coordinated and covered travel, lodging, and workspace for R&D work weeks
• Accommodations available for legitimate caregiving, health, immigration, and similar constraints

Before you apply

• Review job description to highlight experience and impact
• Provide thoughtful and accurate answers to application questions
• Use of AI tools during interviews is not permitted without prior approval
• You will be evaluated on applied AI fluency during the interview process

About the company

TRM Labs provides AI-powered intelligence solutions that help public and private sector agencies investigate and disrupt crime. The company is a Series C company with $220M in total funding.