Senior Level Trust Manager Jobs
Senior level trust manager jobs place experienced professionals in charge of fiduciary strategy, portfolio oversight, and the client teams that execute complex estate and trust mandates. Roles are concentrated across Accounting & Auditing and Technology & Software, with 50% offering remote or hybrid arrangements, and employers like Datadog, Amazon, and Kestra Financial hiring at this level now.
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Fabric Zero Trust Networking builds the infrastructure that makes secure service connectivity the default across Datadog. Our team develops workload-identity, authorization, network-segmentation, and egress-control mechanisms that help protect customer data while keeping our production platform reliable and efficient. As an engineering manager, you'll grow a team of engineers, shape its roadmap alongside technical leaders, and drive adoption across Datadog's infrastructure. You'll work at the intersection of distributed systems, networking, and security, turning complex requirements into platforms that other engineers can use confidently.
At Datadog, we place value in our office culture - the relationships that it builds, the creativity it brings to the table, and the collaboration of being together. We operate as a hybrid workplace to ensure our employees can create a work-life harmony that best fits them.
What You'll Do:
- Lead, coach, and grow a team of software engineers, creating clear expectations, ownership, and career-development opportunities.
- Partner with senior engineers to set technical direction and deliver a roadmap for secure service connectivity and least-privilege network access.
- Lead development and adoption of identity-based authorization, TLS/mTLS enforcement, network-segmentation mechanisms, and egress controls.
- Make security capabilities straightforward to adopt through secure defaults, clear policy abstractions, migration tooling, and useful diagnostics.
- Maintain high standards for reliability, performance, and safe production rollouts, including testing, observability, and incident learning.
- Collaborate with Fabric, Security, and production-infrastructure partners to align priorities and deliver improvements across teams.
Who You Are:
- You have built and operated distributed systems, backend infrastructure, or internal platforms in production.
- You communicate clearly, build productive cross-team relationships, and have experience working with engineers across multiple locations and time zones.
- You understand networking and security fundamentals and are interested in building the mechanisms that enforce security on production traffic.
- You have led complex infrastructure changes or migrations with a thoughtful approach to adoption, compatibility, and rollout safety.
- You combine technical curiosity with pragmatic judgment and care about making platforms reliable, secure, and easy to use.
- You have experience leading software engineers and helping them grow through coaching and feedback.
Datadog values people from all walks of life. We understand not everyone will meet all the above qualifications on day one. That's okay. If you're passionate about technology and want to grow your skills, we encourage you to apply.
Benefits and Growth:
- New hire stock equity (RSUs) and employee stock purchase plan (ESPP)
- Continuous professional development, product training, and career pathing
- Intradepartmental mentor and buddy program for in-house networking
- An inclusive company culture, ability to join our Community Guilds (Datadog employee resource groups)
- Access to Inclusion Talks, our Internal panel discussions
- Free, global mental health benefits for employees and dependents age 6+
- Competitive global benefits
Benefits and Growth listed above may vary based on the country of your employment and the nature of your employment with Datadog.
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About Datadog:
Datadog is the leading observability and security platform for the AI era, providing businesses with unified visibility across the technology stack to manage complexity at scale. It brings applications, infrastructure, data, models, and security into one place, using AI to detect and resolve issues before they impact customers. Trusted globally by Fortune 500 companies and high-growth AI leaders, Datadog enables businesses to move faster with clarity and confidence. Learn more about #DatadogLife on Instagram, LinkedIn, and Datadog Learning Center.
Equal Opportunity at Datadog:
Datadog is proud to offer equal employment opportunity to everyone regardless of race, color, ancestry, religion, sex, national origin, sexual orientation, age, citizenship, marital status, disability, gender identity, veteran status, and other characteristics protected by law. We also consider qualified applicants regardless of criminal histories, consistent with legal requirements. Here are our Candidate Legal Notices for your reference.
Datadog endeavors to make our Careers Page accessible to all users. If you would like to contact us regarding the accessibility of our website or need assistance completing the application process, please complete this form. This form is for accommodation requests only and cannot be used to inquire about the status of applications.
Privacy and AI Guidelines:
Any information you submit to Datadog as part of your application will be processed in accordance with Datadog's Applicant and Candidate Privacy Notice. For information on our AI policy, please visit Interviewing at Datadog AI Guidelines.
Fabric Zero Trust Networking builds the infrastructure that makes secure service connectivity the default across Datadog. Our team develops workload-identity, authorization, network-segmentation, and egress-control mechanisms that help protect customer data while keeping our production platform reliable and efficient. As an engineering manager, you'll grow a team of engineers, shape its roadmap alongside technical leaders, and drive adoption across Datadog's infrastructure. You'll work at the intersection of distributed systems, networking, and security, turning complex requirements into platforms that other engineers can use confidently.
At Datadog, we place value in our office culture - the relationships that it builds, the creativity it brings to the table, and the collaboration of being together. We operate as a hybrid workplace to ensure our employees can create a work-life harmony that best fits them.
What You'll Do:
- Lead, coach, and grow a team of software engineers, creating clear expectations, ownership, and career-development opportunities.
- Partner with senior engineers to set technical direction and deliver a roadmap for secure service connectivity and least-privilege network access.
- Lead development and adoption of identity-based authorization, TLS/mTLS enforcement, network-segmentation mechanisms, and egress controls.
- Make security capabilities straightforward to adopt through secure defaults, clear policy abstractions, migration tooling, and useful diagnostics.
- Maintain high standards for reliability, performance, and safe production rollouts, including testing, observability, and incident learning.
- Collaborate with Fabric, Security, and production-infrastructure partners to align priorities and deliver improvements across teams.
Who You Are:
- You have built and operated distributed systems, backend infrastructure, or internal platforms in production.
- You communicate clearly, build productive cross-team relationships, and have experience working with engineers across multiple locations and time zones.
- You understand networking and security fundamentals and are interested in building the mechanisms that enforce security on production traffic.
- You have led complex infrastructure changes or migrations with a thoughtful approach to adoption, compatibility, and rollout safety.
- You combine technical curiosity with pragmatic judgment and care about making platforms reliable, secure, and easy to use.
- You have experience leading software engineers and helping them grow through coaching and feedback.
Datadog values people from all walks of life. We understand not everyone will meet all the above qualifications on day one. That's okay. If you're passionate about technology and want to grow your skills, we encourage you to apply.
Benefits and Growth:
- New hire stock equity (RSUs) and employee stock purchase plan (ESPP)
- Continuous professional development, product training, and career pathing
- Intradepartmental mentor and buddy program for in-house networking
- An inclusive company culture, ability to join our Community Guilds (Datadog employee resource groups)
- Access to Inclusion Talks, our Internal panel discussions
- Free, global mental health benefits for employees and dependents age 6+
- Competitive global benefits
Benefits and Growth listed above may vary based on the country of your employment and the nature of your employment with Datadog.
#LI-HYBRID
About Datadog:
Datadog is the leading observability and security platform for the AI era, providing businesses with unified visibility across the technology stack to manage complexity at scale. It brings applications, infrastructure, data, models, and security into one place, using AI to detect and resolve issues before they impact customers. Trusted globally by Fortune 500 companies and high-growth AI leaders, Datadog enables businesses to move faster with clarity and confidence. Learn more about #DatadogLife on Instagram, LinkedIn, and Datadog Learning Center.
Equal Opportunity at Datadog:
Datadog is proud to offer equal employment opportunity to everyone regardless of race, color, ancestry, religion, sex, national origin, sexual orientation, age, citizenship, marital status, disability, gender identity, veteran status, and other characteristics protected by law. We also consider qualified applicants regardless of criminal histories, consistent with legal requirements. Here are our Candidate Legal Notices for your reference.
Datadog endeavors to make our Careers Page accessible to all users. If you would like to contact us regarding the accessibility of our website or need assistance completing the application process, please complete this form. This form is for accommodation requests only and cannot be used to inquire about the status of applications.
Privacy and AI Guidelines:
Any information you submit to Datadog as part of your application will be processed in accordance with Datadog's Applicant and Candidate Privacy Notice. For information on our AI policy, please visit Interviewing at Datadog AI Guidelines.
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Senior Level Trust Manager Jobs: Frequently Asked Questions
How do I get a senior level trust manager job?
Employers at this level expect demonstrated ownership of complex trust portfolios, fluency in fiduciary law and estate planning, and a history of guiding junior staff through difficult client situations. Candidates who stand out pair deep technical expertise with client relationship leadership. Tailoring your resume to show measurable portfolio outcomes and cross-functional collaboration gives you a clear edge over generalist applicants.
Which companies hire senior level trust managers?
Companies hiring senior level trust managers right now include Datadog, Amazon, and Kestra Financial, based on current listings on Migrate Mate as of November 2026. At this level, hiring concentrates in wealth management firms, regional and national banks, trust companies, and family office operations that manage complex, high-value fiduciary relationships.
Are there remote senior level trust manager jobs?
Yes, though many roles still require in-person client interaction. About 50% of senior level trust manager openings are remote or hybrid as of November 2026, with hybrid arrangements being most common at institutions that balance client-facing responsibilities with administrative flexibility. Fully remote roles tend to appear more often at technology-forward trust platforms and larger national firms.
What makes a trust manager role senior level?
Senior level trust manager roles are defined by independent ownership of a complex portfolio, accountability for fiduciary outcomes without close supervision, and responsibility for mentoring junior officers. These positions involve leading client relationships through litigation, contested estates, or multi-generational planning, shaping internal policy and compliance standards, and contributing to business development or team strategy in ways that mid-level roles do not require.
Which industries hire the most senior level trust managers?
Senior Level trust manager roles concentrate in Accounting & Auditing and Technology & Software, based on current listings on Migrate Mate as of November 2026. These sectors drive hiring at this level because they manage high-value or regulated assets that require experienced fiduciary oversight, sophisticated estate administration, and senior professionals capable of navigating complex client and compliance demands independently.