Engineering Manager @ Protocol Labs

Engineering Manager

Filecoin Saturn

Posted on 10/12/2022

INACTIVE

Locations

Remote

Experience Level

Entry

Junior

Mid

Senior

Expert

Desired Skills

Communications

Blockchain

Requirements

Demonstrable success as an engineering lead/manager fostering highly-functional, healthy, inclusive and collaborative teams
Experience in an early-stage product/team and building tools from scratch for early adopters
Technical credibility through lengthy software engineering experience with back-end and distributed systems and infrastructure
A strong desire for and history of contributions to open source projects and communities
Experience working with and/or managing geographically distributed teams
Ability to thrive with a high level of self-direction, autonomy and responsibility
Excellent written and verbal communication skills
An excitement for collaborating with people across Protocol Labs towards our shared mission

Responsibilities

Lead the architectural design of key components, tooling, and infrastructure
Inspire your team and others with technical vision and customer obsession
Empower engineers and solutions architects to solve problems, fostering a balance of velocity and rigor through scalable, asynchronous decision-making practices
Be the primary technical interface for technical grant work and vendor work
Influence additional technical roadmaps of Bedrock, IP Stewards etc
Drive decisions around technical priorities, approach, testing, maintenance, etc
Roll up your sleeves with hands on contributions when necessary
Develop expertise in the data onboarding journey and become a key point of contact for advising large data owners with solutions
Lead, improve, and document processes for technical prioritization, planning, design, implementation and releases in harmony with and expanding open source community participation
Maintain a positive and supportive work culture

Desired Qualifications

Experience in an early-stage product/team and building tools from scratch for early adopters
You have experience with or deep knowledge of SaaS tools, globally distributed systems, blockchain or other related domains
Demonstrable open source community curation and leadership experience

About Protocol Labs

Protocol Labs drives breakthroughs in computing to push humanity forward. Protocol Labs is a product-development lab, but behind the protocols and tools we build, behind the research and implementations, are passionate people, teammates, and community members. Most teams in the Protocol Labs Network are fully distributed and work remotely around the world. Engineers, researchers, and operators work in the open to improve the internet — humanity’s most important technology — as we explore new advances at the intersection of many exciting fields (web3, cryptography, networks, distributed systems) and cultures (startups, research, open-source, distributed work).

About Filecoin Saturn

Filecoin Saturn

Filecoin, a decentralized storage network to store humanity’s most valuable information, is one of the most promising projects of Web 3.0. In the year since its launch, over 17 exabytes of storage have been pledged to the Filecoin network, which is proven and verified by each node operator every single day. As we look forward, many challenges remain to be solved such as continuing to scale the network, allowing user programmability through the addition of a Virtual Machine, and implementing cutting-edge ideas coming from the latest in cryptographic research.

One such challenge is the reliable, performant and economic retrieval of content from Filecoin. Filecoin Saturn is a decentralized content delivery network (CDN) for Filecoin.

As an Engineering Manager, you will…

Lead the architectural design of key components, tooling, and infrastructure.
Inspire your team and others with technical vision and customer obsession.
Empower engineers and solutions architects to solve problems, fostering a balance of velocity and rigor through scalable, asynchronous decision-making practices.
Be the primary technical interface for technical grant work and vendor work.
Influence additional technical roadmaps of Bedrock, IP Stewards etc.
Drive decisions around technical priorities, approach, testing, maintenance, etc.
Roll up your sleeves with hands on contributions when necessary.
Develop expertise in the data onboarding journey and become a key point of contact for advising large data owners with solutions.
Lead, improve, and document processes for technical prioritization, planning, design, implementation and releases in harmony with and expanding open source community participation.
Maintain a positive and supportive work culture.

You may be a fit for this role if you have...

Demonstrable success as an engineering lead/manager fostering highly-functional, healthy, inclusive and collaborative teams.
Experience in an early-stage product/team and building tools from scratch for early adopters.
Technical credibility through lengthy software engineering experience with back-end and distributed systems and infrastructure.
A strong desire for and history of contributions to open source projects and communities.
Experience working with and/or managing geographically distributed teams.
Ability to thrive with a high level of self-direction, autonomy and responsibility.
Excellent written and verbal communication skills.
An excitement for collaborating with people across Protocol Labs towards our shared mission.

Bonus Points

Experience in an early-stage product/team and building tools from scratch for early adopters.
You have experience with or deep knowledge of SaaS tools, globally distributed systems, blockchain or other related domains.
Demonstrable open source community curation and leadership experience.

What’s it like to work at Protocol Labs?

Protocol Labs’ mission is to improve humanity’s most important technology, the Internet. We build protocols, systems, and tools to improve how it works. Today, we are focused on how we store, locate, and move information. Our projects include IPFS, Filecoin, libp2p, and more.

As a distributed team, we hire anywhere in the world, and at various levels of experience (entry, senior, staff). We look for people with unique perspectives and diverse backgrounds.

We have a great benefits package, including parental leave, contributions to your retirement, competitive pay, and unlimited time off. For U.S.-based employees, we also provide platinum-level health, dental, and vision coverage for you and your family.

If you’re passionate about the future of computing and a more democratized internet, we want to talk to you.

GDPR for Job Applicants and Candidates

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51-200 employees

Website

Open-source R&D lab with Web3 focus

Company Overview

Protocol Labs aims to make human existence orders of magnitude better through technology. The company is open-source research, development, and deployment laboratory, who's projects include IPFS, Filecoin, libp2p, and more.

Benefits

Parental leave
Contributions to your retirement
Competitive pay and unlimited time off
For U.S.-based employees: platinum-level health, dental, and vision coverage for you and your family.

Company Core Values

We are open source to the core: Open-source technology is at the core of all our projects and at the center of our philosophy.
We are a global, remote workforce: Protocol Labs is a distributed company with no central office, working from home all over the world.
We champion autonomy: We empower people to lead and take ownership of interesting, challenging problems.
We welcome diverse ways of thinking: This is a team of talented, curious people of diverse backgrounds and unique perspectives.
We are a startup lab:We mix fast-paced, growth-oriented startup culture, with deeply analytical, data driven research thinking.