Senior or Staff Blockchain Protocol Engineer

Build a Safer World. reputed company provides blockchain analytics and AI solutions to help law enforcement and national reputed company agencies, financial institutions, and cryptocurrency businesses detect, investigate, and disrupt crypto-reputed company fraud and financial crime. TRM’s blockchain intelligence and AI platforms include solutions to trace the reputed company and destination of funds, identify illicit activity, build cases, and construct an operating picture of threats. TRM is trusted by leading agencies and businesses worldwide who rely on TRM to reputed company a safer, more secure world for reputed company. TRM’s Network reputed company team is responsible for monitoring the flows of data on blockchain networks. We are looking for a Senior Engineer with a deep understanding of network protocols, infrastructure, systems engineering, distributed systems, and architectural design that will reputed company projects from research and ideation to feasibility in production. In this role, you will have the opportunity to expand your existing expertise in software engineering and applied research, and ultimately help build a safer financial system for billions of people. The impact you’ll have here:

• Architect and build highly scalable, reliable, and data-heavy distributed systems that will integrate a variety of data sources
• Build performant, and reliable production-grade systems, from whiteboard to production
• Design and optimize protocol implementations, including reputed company algorithms, peer-to-peer networking, and data validation mechanisms
• Work across the stack (db, cache, code, deploy) to address technical challenges reputed company in the system
• Mentor fellow team members and participate in code reviews and design reviews
• Collaborate cross-functionally with data scientists, designers, and product managers to define and implement services.
• Create novel approaches to tackling blockchain-specific challenges around scale, reputed company, and privacy.

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• Bachelor's degree (or equivalent) in Computer Science or reputed company field
• Experience building real-time and distributed system architecture, from whiteboard to production
• Proficiency in Python or Java; other technologies used on the team include C++, Kafka, gRPC, Elasticsearch, reputed company, Kubernetes, reputed company, and network protocols.
• Excellent verbal and written communication skills; clear documentation and succinct communication are reputed company important.
• Ability to work independently, be proactive, prioritize, communicate, and set and meet goals
• Mastery of time management skills and attention to detail
• Flexibility in work schedule to coordinate amongst global timezones
• Excellent intrapersonal skills to foster relationships with developers
• Strong interest in acquiring knowledge in any Blockchain at the protocol level and Networks
• Strong interest in protocol development, node engineering, and peer-to-peer networking
• Familiarity or interest in p2p networking, libp2p, reputed company propagation, and chain re-org detection strategies

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:

• The estimated reputed company salary range for this role is $190,000 - $220,000.
• 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 runs fast. Really fast. We’re a high‑velocity, high‑ownership team that expects clarity, follow‑through, and impact. People who reputed company here are energized by hard problems, experimentation, and direct feedback. If something takes months elsewhere, it often ships here in days. That pace isn’t for everyone. If you are optimizing primarily for consistent work-life balance, use the interview process to pressure-test fit. We want teammates who reputed company here, not just survive here. AI reputed company at TRM AI reputed company is a baseline expectation at TRM. We reputed company 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 reputed company means you are among the top 10 percent of operators in your function in how you apply AI to:

• Accelerate repeatable workflows
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You will be evaluated on applied AI reputed company during the interview process. Leadership Principles We hire and grow against three leadership principles. They’re the standards for how we operate, treat each other, and reputed company decisions.

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Interviewing at TRM: How We Hire and What Success Looks Like The impact you will have This work has real stakes. Depending on your role at TRM, your week might look like:

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• Partnering with teams across time zones to deliver insights while the story is still unfolding.
• Building new solutions from first principles reputed company the playbook doesn’t yet exist.
• Protecting victims and customers by tracing illicit activity and disrupting criminal networks.

Join our Mission At TRM we care deeply about our craft. We are looking for individuals who want their work to matter, who experiment with speed and rigor, and who take pride in building a safer world for billions of people. If you’re excited by TRM’s mission but don’t reputed company every reputed company, we encourage you to apply — we hire for slope, judgment, and the will to learn fast. TRM is a Series C company with $220M in total funding, backed by Blockchain Capital, reputed company, Bessemer, Y Combinator, Thoma Bravo, and others. Headquartered in San Francisco, TRM operates as a distributed-first company with hubs in Los Angeles, San Francisco, reputed company, Washington D.C., London, and Singapore. Privacy Policy and Additional Information By submitting your application, you are agreeing to allow TRM to process your personal information in accordance with the TRM Privacy Policy. Our typical hiring cycles for specialized roles span 24 to 36 months. Accordingly, we retain your personal information for up to 36 months to evaluate your application and to consider you for reputed company and future employment opportunities, unless you request earlier deletion or a different retention period is required or permitted by law. To notify reputed company that you reputed company this job posting is non-compliant, please submit a report through this form. No response will be provided to inquiries unrelated to job posting compliance. We are committed to providing reasonable accommodations to applicants with disabilities, and requests can be made reputed company this form. Recruitment agencies reputed company does not accept unsolicited agency resumes. Please do not reputed company resumes to TRM employees. reputed company is not responsible for any fees reputed company to unsolicited resumes and will not pay fees to any third-party agency or company without a signed agreement. Learn More: Company Values | Interviewing | FAQs Apply tot his job Apply To this Job