Engineering Manager, Data Platform

Job Summary

Lead and nurture a team of high-impact engineers, offering guidance in both technical and cultural aspects. Provide regular coaching and technical mentorship to your immediate team as well as contribute to the broader engineering department's growth. Assume direct responsibility for ensuring the quality and timely delivery of the team's work, while overseeing the availability and performance of critical services. Drive projects aligned with well-defined goals and measurable outcomes, accountable to key performance indicators (KPIs).

Impact You’ll Have

• Lead and nurture a team of high-impact engineers, offering guidance in both technical and cultural aspects.
• Provide regular coaching and technical mentorship to your immediate team as well as contribute to the broader engineering department's growth.
• Assume direct responsibility for ensuring the quality and timely delivery of the team's work, while overseeing the availability and performance of critical services.
• Drive projects aligned with well-defined goals and measurable outcomes, accountable to key performance indicators (KPIs).
• Foster best practices in design and usability, creating scalable solutions while emphasizing documentation and knowledge sharing.
• Resolve operational escalations and collaborate with various teams to address production incidents until resolution.
• Collaborate closely with management and product teams to plan, estimate, and prioritize roadmap objectives, identifying opportunities and mitigating risks.
• Contribute to the creation of highly reliable data services that seamlessly integrate with numerous blockchains.
• Engineer and optimize ETL pipelines that handle real-time transformation and processing of petabytes of structured and unstructured data.
• Architect data models to ensure efficient storage and retrieval, maintaining sub-second latency for querying blockchain data.
• Oversee the deployment and vigilant monitoring of large-scale database clusters, focusing on performance and high availability.
• Collaborate cross-functionally with data scientists, backend engineers, and product managers to design, implement, and refine new data models in support of TRM’s products.

Qualifications

• A Bachelor's degree (or equivalent) in Computer Science or a related field.
• A proven track record with over 5 years of experience in conceiving and implementing distributed system architecture, spanning from ideation to production.
• Proficiency in Python programming and adeptness in SQL or SparkSQL.
• Versatility across the entire spectrum of data engineering, encompassing areas such as:
• Expertise in data stores such as ClickHouse, ElasticSearch, Postgres, Redis, and Neo4j.
• Proficiency with data pipeline and workflow orchestration tools like Airflow, DBT, Luigi, Azkaban, and Storm.
• Advanced proficiency in data processing technologies and streaming workflows, including Spark, Kafka, and Flink.
• Competence in deploying and meticulously monitoring infrastructure within public cloud platforms, using tools such as Docker, Terraform, Kubernetes, and Datadog.
• Demonstrated ability to handle the complexities of loading, querying, and transforming extensive and intricate datasets.

What We’re Looking For

AI Fluency at TRM: AI fluency is a baseline expectation at TRM. We believe AI meaningfully changes how top performers operate. We expect every team member to use AI to accelerate and reimagine their craft, not just automate surface tasks. At TRM, AI Fluency Means You Are Among The Top 10 Percent Of Operators In Your Function In How You Apply AI To Accelerate repeatable workflows, structure and solve problems, improve output quality, and increase speed and leverage.

Leadership Principles

• Impact-Oriented Trailblazer: We put customers first and move with speed, focus, and adaptability. We treat every plan like an experiment – test, ship, measure, and iterate quickly.
• Master Craftsperson: We care deeply about our craft. We balance speed with high standards, own outcomes end-to-end, and invest in getting better everyday.
• Inspiring Colleague: We add clarity and energy, not noise. We bring humility, candor, and a one-team mindset — giving and receiving feedback to make the team stronger.

Company Values

• We are building a safer world. That promise shows up in how we work every day.
• We move quickly. We are a high velocity, high ownership team that expects clarity, follow-through, and impact.
• We thrive in situations that are not always fully defined. We enjoy building, solving hard problems, and making progress in ambiguous environments.
• We are energized by hard problems, experimentation, and continuous feedback.
• We are comfortable navigating ambiguity, adjusting course as new information emerges, and maintaining focus and positivity in a fast-moving and intense environment.

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