TRM Labs
Engineering Manager, Data Platform
$230K–$260K
San Francisco, California · Hybrid · Manager · Full-time · Posted Jul 20, 2026
- Experience
- 5+ years managing engineers and 5+ years of distributed-systems experience; both requirements are stated separately.
- Education
- Bachelor's degree (or equivalent) in Computer Science or a related field.
About the job
Leads the Data Platform engineering team building and operating scalable data infrastructure and services for analyzing blockchain activity at petabyte scale.
What you'll do
- Lead, coach, and grow engineers while guiding technical direction and team development.
- Own delivery, reliability, performance, and incident resolution for critical data services.
- Guide data platform architecture, ETL pipelines, data models, and large-scale database operations in partnership with cross-functional teams.
What they ask for
- 5+ years managing engineers, including teams of roughly 8–15, with scope that has grown over time.
- 5+ years conceiving and implementing distributed systems from ideation through production.
- Proficiency in Python and strong SQL or SparkSQL experience; ability to load, query, and transform large-scale complex datasets.
- Bachelor's degree (or equivalent) in Computer Science or a related field.
Nice to have
- A publicly shared perspective on leadership, such as through writing, talks, open source, or community involvement.
Pay
$230,000 - $260,000 USD base salary
Tools
Python, SQL, SparkSQL, ClickHouse, Elasticsearch, Postgres, Redis, Neo4j
AI focus
AI fluency is expected; use AI to accelerate workflows, structure and solve problems, improve output quality, and increase speed and leverage. Applied AI fluency is evaluated during interviews.
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