Senior Infrastructure Engineer

About this role

Build a Safer World. TRM Labs provides AI-powered intelligence solutions that help public and private sector agencies investigate and disrupt crime. TRM's platforms enable investigators to trace illicit activity, build cases, and construct operating pictures of threat networks. Leading agencies and businesses worldwide rely on TRM to make the world safer and more secure. At TRM, we're on a mission to build a safer financial system for billions of people around the world. Our next-generation platform, which combines threat intelligence with machine learning, enables financial institutions and governments to detect cryptocurrency fraud and financial crime at an unprecedented scale. As a Senior Infrastructure Engineer at TRM Labs, you will collaborate with an experienced team of data scientists, engineers, and product managers to design and build scalable infrastructure for TRM's products and services. You will be deeply involved in the technical details of building highly available infrastructure and ultimately work to build a safer financial system for billions of people. The impact you’ll have here: Developing software and tooling to facilitate greater automation, support, maintenance, and operability of services. Use data to understand the availability, reliability, and sustainability of our infrastructure. Actively engage in systems hardening and compliance (e.g., SOC2, FedRAMP). Work with product and engineering leadership to set strategy, priorities, and mission for the Infrastructure team. What we’re looking for: Bachelor's degree (or equivalent) in Computer Science or related field 3+ years of experience in a role working with AWS and/or GCP IaaS services eg. compute, object storage, iam, vpc, load balancing. Experience with Airflow, GKE, EKS, Big Query, is a plus. Highly proficient with modern Unix/Linux operating systems/distributions, preferably CentOS & Alpine Experience with CI/CD, containers and/or virtualization, web servers, and databases. Experience defining SLOs/SLIs and implementing monitoring, alerting, and runbooks. Experience with Terraform, Airflow, GKE, EKS, BigQuery, and/or Kubernetes is a plus. Adaptable. Goals can change fast. You anticipate and react quickly. Autonomous. You own what you work on. You move fast and get things done. Excellent communication. You will need communicate complex ideas effectively to both technical and non-technical audiences, and both verbally and in writing Collaborative. You must work collaboratively in a cross-functional team and with people at all levels in an organization 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. The following represents the expected range of compensation for this role: Additionally, this role may be eligible to participate in TRM’s equity plan. Life at TRM We are building a safer world. That promise shows up in how we work every day. TRM moves quickly. We are a high velocity, high ownership team that expects clarity, follow-through, and impact. People who thrive here are energized by hard problems, experimentation, and continuous feedback. If something takes months elsewhere, it will ship here in days. Our work sits at the intersection of AI, national security, and fighting crime. The problems are complex, the stakes are real, and the environment evolves quickly. The pace and intensity of the work reflect the importance of the mission. As a result, the way we operate requires a high level of ownership, adaptability, collaboration, and creative problem-solving. At TRM, you should expect: Priorities and targets to change quickly as we experiment and iterate Work that often requires operating with a high degree of ambiguity A high level of personal ownership and accountability Close collaboration across teams and functions Frequent, high-touch communication Creative problem solving and out-of-the-box thinking A pace that rewards urgency, adaptability, and outcomes This environment is energizing for people who enjoy building, solving