TRM Labs

TRM Labs

Backend Engineer, Agent Tools

United States

Sponsorship not specifiedDetected 19 days ago
Backend DevelopmentData EngineeringA/B TestingLeadershipCommunicationCollaborationProblem SolvingMentoringAdaptability

About the role

  • This role sits on the team focused on third-party integrations and the scalable platform that enables TRM to connect to external data sources quickly, reliably, and securely.
  • The team operates on a weekly sprint schedule.
  • The team's culture is built on psychological safety, high ownership, trust, accountability, and a bias toward shipping useful systems quickly.

Responsibilities

  • BUILD A SAFER WORLD.
  • TRM's platforms enable investigators to trace illicit activity, build cases, and construct operating pictures of threat networks.
  • You will design and ship reliable connectors, APIs, services, and integration infrastructure that allow TRM's AI systems to access external data sources safely, quickly, and at scale.
  • Design, build, and maintain third-party API integrations that power TRM's Agentic products and workflows.
  • Develop scalable integration infrastructure, shared services, and internal tooling that make it faster and safer to add new data sources.
  • Build reliable APIs, backend services, and data pipelines that support high-volume, mission-critical product experiences.
  • Collaborate with product, engineering, data, and internal stakeholders to translate integration needs into clear technical roadmaps and measurable outcomes.
  • We are building a safer world.
  • This environment is energizing for people who enjoy building, solving hard problems, and making progress in situations that are not always fully defined.

Requirements

  • Strong understanding of third-party API integration patterns, including authentication, rate limits, retries, error handling, data normalization, and monitoring.
  • Experience with storage systems such as relational databases, analytical databases, queues, caches, or event-driven architectures.
  • Ability to work through ambiguity, structure complex problems, and identify the highest-impact technical priorities.
  • Ability to communicate complex technical ideas clearly to both technical and non-technical stakeholders.
  • Work that often requires operating with a high degree of ambiguity
  • After that period, your data is deleted unless a different retention period is required or permitted by law.

Nice to have

  • Experience with OSINT data sources a plus
  • Experience with AI Production Systems a plus

Company info

  • The AI Engineering team builds the systems, workflows, and infrastructure behind TRM's AI-native products. This role sits on the team focused on third-party integrations and the scalable platform that enables TRM to connect to external data sources quickly, reliably, and securely.
  • The team operates on a weekly sprint schedule. Engineers are expected to lead projects as technical anchors and are given opportunities to grow ownership according to their level and goals.
  • We work closely with product, design, data platform, infrastructure, and customer-facing teams to deliver capabilities that directly impact customers and internal users.
  • The team's timezone is a mix of EST and PST, with at least 6 hours of overlap with PST, generally from 8 am to 2 pm PST.
  • On-call: We have an on-call rotation that is approximately one week long and occurs once every 4-6 weeks. On-call work includes responding to PagerDuty alerts that warrant immediate attention and triaging customer or internal support requests from designated Slack channels.
  • Learn about TRM Speed in this position:
  • The team is often tasked with delivering critical integration work on tight timelines.
  • In one example, a project initially estimated to take two months was delivered in two weeks by ruthlessly prioritizing, bringing in the right implementation support, and partnering with product to descope the first milestone while preserving immediate customer value.
  • The project was able to deliver value quickly in sales conversations while the team continued to iterate on future milestones.
  • Engineers at TRM are empowered to drive decision-making across product, design, and technical implementation. Rather than waiting days for alignment, engineers are expected to analyze tradeoffs, propose solutions, and move discussions toward clear decisions.
  • TRM has a large group of internal power users who provide fast product feedback. When engineers identify a clear pain point from this group, they are empowered to ship targeted improvements directly to beta users without multiple layers of approval.
  • In this role, speed means building integrations that are useful quickly, then hardening them into scalable, observable, and reusable platform capabilities as usage grows.
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