Senior Analytics Engineer, TRM Labs
Blockchain investigations & risk management
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Blockchain investigations & risk management
201-500 employees
Be an early applicant
201-500 employees
Company mission
To build a safer financial system for billions of people.
Role
Who you are
- 8+ years of experience in analytics engineering, data engineering, or data science with a strong focus on building and scaling analytics workflows
- Strong experience across the entire Data Engineering lifecycle (from ETLs, Data Model design, infra, Data Quality, architecture etc.)
- Deep proficiency in SQL and experience developing robust, modular data models using dbt (or equivalent tools) in a production environment
- Strong software engineering fundamentals, including experience with Python, CI/CD pipelines, and automated testing
- Proficiency in defining robust and scalable data models using best practices
- Experience using LLMs as well enabling AI through high quality data infrastructure
- Hands-on experience with cloud data warehouses and infrastructure (e.g., Snowflake, BigQuery, Redshift) and data orchestration tools (e.g., Airflow, Dagster, Prefect)
- Proficiency in developing compelling dashboards using tools like Looker, Tableau, Power BI, Plotly or similar
- Excellent communication skills — you can explain complex technical concepts to non-technical audiences and influence key decisions with clarity and data
What the job involves
- As a Senior Analytics Engineer on our Advanced Analytics team, you will help mature and scale the foundation of our analytics data ecosystem
- You’ll play a leading role in shaping best practices in analytics engineering and will be instrumental in driving data architecture, quality, performance, and reliability across the organization
- This is a high-impact, senior-level role built for someone who brings a strong background in analytics/data engineering and data science, and who can thrive in ambiguous environments and independently drive critical initiatives that improve how we model, transform, and use data across TRM
- Within 6–12 months, your work will have improved the scalability and reliability of our analytics infrastructure and established the gold standard for analytics engineering practices across the team
- Lead the development and optimization of analytics pipelines and data models that power TRM’s products, investigations, and decision-making — enabling teams across the company and our customers (including former FBI, Secret Service, and Europol agents) to detect and respond to financial crime in the crypto space
- Define and implement best practices in analytics engineering (e.g., testing, observability, versioning, documentation), helping to level up the team’s development workflows and data reliability
- Improve the scalability and maintainability of our analytics data ecosystem, which process large volume of data, through thoughtful architectural decisions and tooling improvements
- Partner closely with data scientists, data engineers, product and business teams to deliver production-ready datasets that support models, metrics, and investigative workflows
- Establish best-in-class data quality solutions to increase the reliability and accuracy of our data
- Investigate performance issues, and bring creative, durable solutions to improve long-term reliability, cost and developer experience
- Drive adoption of modern data tools and workflows, helping the team evolve toward best-in-class analytics engineering practices
- Contribute to team on-call responsibilities that support the health and availability of our analytics and data science infrastructure (on-call is lightweight and shared equitably)
- The Advanced Analytics team helps TRM’s customers to have the most reliable and impactful data and insights. The team builds the data foundation and Analytics products for TRM’s insights and investigative capabilities. We develop high-leverage datasets, metrics, and insights used by internal teams and customers to combat fraud, hacks, and illicit activity on the blockchain
- We’re a distributed team with a collaborative and inclusive culture. Most of our meetings and syncs occur between 7am–12pm PST to ensure time zone overlap
- On-call responsibilities are shared across the team and intentionally kept lightweight (e.g., <1hr/day during a weeklong shift every few months)
- Learn about TRM Speed in this position:
- Deliver a last minute impactful project for a key customer
- Build complex products effectively with tight timeframes (1-2 sprints for MVP)
- Work on several projects in parallel with different priorities and stakeholders
- This work has teeth. At TRM, your week might include:
- Driving critical investigations that can’t wait for typical business hours
- Shipping products in days when others would schedule quarters
- Partnering with teams across time zones to deliver insights while the story is still unfolding
- Building new solutions from first principles when the playbook doesn’t yet exist
- Protecting victims and customers by tracing illicit activity and disrupting criminal networks
Our take
The crypto space has become more mainstream but it is also intensely volatile and poorly regulated, with a high degree of anonymity afforded to its users. As such it has become a major source of financial fraud with $20 billion in crypto stolen in 2022 alone. TRM Lab exists to return trust to the blockchain, helping banks, government agencies and crypto companies detect and combat fraud with its blockchain intelligence solutions.
As the risk of blockchain fraud is only increasing, with the proceeds often being used for organized crime, there are a number of companies working in this space. TRM stands out with the breadth of its crypto asset coverage and the strength of its cross-chain analytics. It has partnered with the FBI and Europol to aid its investigations, and is also used by major crypto companies MoonPay and Binance.
The company has grown its revenue by almost 500% year on year since its founding in 2018, and has raised a significant amount of capital. With the funding its secured, its further developing its product and hiring additional talent. And as businesses and government agencies increasingly come to grips with fraud in the crypto space, TRM is well poised to continue its rapid growth.
Steph
Company Specialist at Welcome to the Jungle
Insights
42% employee growth in 12 months
Company
Funding (last 2 of 6 rounds)
Nov 2022
$70m
SERIES B
Dec 2021
$60m
SERIES B
Total funding: $150.1m
Company benefits
- DIstributed, not distant
- Competitive compensation package
- Paid time off: 25 days of vacation and competitive holistic paid time off plans
- Parental leave & family planning: 18 weeks of paid parental leave (if employed for at least 180 days unless the home state or country required less tenure). For select eligible regions, we also offer fertility treatments via the Carrot platform
- Health coverage: Premium coverage for medical, dental, vision and life insurance
- Company retreats
- Career growth
Company HQ
SoMa, San Francisco, CA
Leadership
Esteban Castaño
(Co-Founder & CEO)Former Business Analyst at McKinsey & Company. Founded the Digital team at Generation, a high growth youth employment program, before launching TRM in 2018.
Rahul Raina
(Co-Founder & CTO)Former Senior Business Analyst at McKinsey & Company. Former Software Engineer at Amazon Web Services and Opendoor.
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