Compliance Engineer

TRM Labs

1d•$200,000 - $220,000•Remote

About The Position

TRM Labs is seeking a Senior Compliance Engineer to own the company's compliance and GRC initiatives. This role is crucial for ensuring TRM continues to deliver best-in-class security and trust for its customers. The Security Team is responsible for securing all aspects of TRM, from customers to code. This position will play a key role in developing scalable processes, managing compliance lifecycles, operationalizing the GRC program, and handling customer due diligence requests.

Requirements

Experience with Python or other programming and scripting languages is required.
Strong understanding of Public Sector compliance security standards including NIST 800-53, SOC 2, CMMC, ISO, CyberEssentials UK, and other common compliance frameworks.
Experience with leading a cloud-first SaaS company through the audit processes.
Strong focus on normalizing controls across frameworks and standards, with an eye toward improving maturity, scalability, and consistency over time, while looking beyond just “checking the box”.
AI fluency is a baseline expectation at TRM, meaning the ability to use AI to accelerate repeatable workflows, structure and solve problems, improve output quality, and increase speed and leverage.

Nice To Haves

Privacy and GDPR experience is a plus.
Security certifications (e.g., CISSP, CISM) are a plus.
Previous software development background preferred.

Responsibilities

Develop scalable and sustainable processes and tools for normalized controls, collecting audit evidence, monitoring controls, and conducting gap analyses.
Manage TRM’s existing security compliance and certification lifecycle (e.g., SOC 2 Type II, ISO 27001/27701, FedRAMP, CMMC) while planning for and prioritizing future compliance needs.
Operationalize the GRC program to maintain our regulatory certifications.
Manage customer due diligence requests including developing and maintaining security collateral for customers (e.g., SIG, CAIQ).
Conduct enterprise risk assessments and manage the risk registry.
Develop a vendor risk management program.
Identify areas for improvement based on input from customers, the go-to-market teams, and overall business objectives.
Anticipate customer needs with respect to compliance and due diligence.
Develop automation to programmatically implement controls validations and evidence collections.
Work to align advanced technologies and Privacy by Design principles from the first stages of development and ensure that the data use meets established regulatory compliance needs.
Automate repetitive compliance checks through custom integrations, SOAR platforms, or compliance management software.
Build and leverage APIs for cross-system data integration to pull real-time compliance data into a centralized GRC tool or dashboard.
Embed compliance checks early in the development lifecycle by integrating security and compliance standards directly into CI/CD pipelines.