# Engineering Manager, Data Platform at TRM Labs

- Company: TRM Labs
- What the company does: Trusted by public sector agencies and private sector institutions on the front lines of illicit activity, including criminal networks, sanctioned actors and state-backed threats. Backed by Bessemer and Y Combinator.
- Company website: https://www.trmlabs.com/
- Type: Startups (AI role)
- Level: Senior
- Location: North America
- Work setup: Remote
- Pay: $230K to $260K base salary per year (USD)
- Posted: 2026-07-20
- Apply by: 2026-10-12
- Apply: https://jobs.ashbyhq.com/trm-labs/8c0ea2a6-e423-4898-9e7b-810719030013
- Page: https://www.1752.vc/careers/jobs/trm-labs-engineering-manager-data-platform/

## About the role

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 an Engineering Manager, you will guide your team toward executing mission-critical systems and data services that analyze blockchain transaction activity at petabyte scale. Your contributions will play a pivotal role in building a safer financial system for billions of people.

## What they're looking for

- • 5+ years managing engineers, including a team of roughly 8–15, with scope that has grown over time (more surface area, more people, or more complex systems than when you started)
- • Technical depth you still use. You read design docs closely, ask the question that changes the approach, and can unblock an engineer on the hard part. You don't need to be writing production code daily to stay credible
- • A point of view on leadership. You've thought about how you build teams and how you want engineers to work, and you can articulate it. If you've shared it publicly (writing, talks, open source, community), even better
- • You disagree well. You've made the case against a roadmap, a design, or your own leadership, brought evidence, and come out of it still in partnership
- • Influence beyond your own team. You've delivered work that depended on teams you don't manage (a migration, a shared SLA, a platform dependency) by bringing people along rather than escalating
- • Team building as core work. You've hired engineers you're proud of, grown people into senior and lead roles, and treated the quality of the team as part of the product

Tags: R&D