Senior Software Engineer, Database Infrastructure

TRM is on a mission to build a safer financial system for billions of people. We deliver a blockchain intelligence data platform to financial institutions, crypto companies, and governments to fight cryptocurrency fraud and financial crime. We consider our business — and our profit — as a way to move towards our mission sustainably and at scale. 

The Data Platform team collaborates with an experienced group of data scientists, engineers, and product managers to build highly available and scalable data infrastructure for TRM's products and services. As a Senior Database Engineer, you will be responsible for developing, managing, and scaling TRM’s robust database infrastructure that will ultimately help to build a safer financial system for billions of people.

The impact you’ll have here:

• Design, implement, and maintain Petabyte scale relational database systems with a focus on availability, security, performance, and scalability.
• Work closely with cross-functional teams to plan and execute database infrastructure build-outs, upgrades, and migrations.
• Serve as an expert in database performance, scalability, query tuning, monitoring, and incident response.
• Manage data replication in environments serving both batch and real-time use cases.
• Independently troubleshoot and resolve production and pre-production issues in a timely manner.
• Contribute to major system upgrades, deployment automation, monitoring enhancements, and production changes.
• Create operational playbooks, contribute to documentation, and gain domain expertise to drive changes within the team.
• Tune and configure databases, as well as build tools and scripts to monitor, troubleshoot, and automate our systems.

What we’re looking for:

• 5- 8 years of hands-on experience in database design, development, and enterprise-class operations with one or more of the following technologies: PostgreSQL, MySQL, Aurora PostgreSQL, Aurora MySQL.
• Experience managing a highly reliable database platform with a focus on security, performance, and scale to meet the requirements of enterprise customers.
• Experience migrating mission-critical database applications from on-premise to the cloud or managing a hybrid cloud environment for large enterprise applications.
• Proficient in data modeling for OLTP and OLAP workloads.
• Extensive experience in performance monitoring, troubleshooting, and performance tuning.
• Experience influencing product roadmap and strategy, and prioritizing existing database initiatives to drive business outcomes.
• Experience writing high-performance Postgres modules and extensions to optimize database performance.

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.