Engineering Manager, Web3 Core Protocols

As Engineering Manager at Protocol Labs you will…

• Magnify the impact of multiple teams of software engineers and open source contributors in their implementation of complex, distributed systems and protocols
• Grow engineers’ skills, experience and confidence through regular 1:1s, coaching, actionable feedback, work and peer alignment, and career advocacy
• Lead, improve, and steward engineering practices (technical design, implementation, release, and iteration) for our working groups to minimize developer friction and blockages
• Communicate regularly with stakeholders and adjacent teams to build a shared understanding and accommodation of competing priorities
• Empower engineers to solve problems, fostering a balance of velocity and rigour through scalable, asynchronous decision-making practices
• Maintain and strengthen a team and community culture of growth, openness, trust, rigour, humility, mutual support, and psychological safety.
• Advocate for and enhance PL’s asynchronous, autonomous, and distributed working culture
• Lead the process of recruiting great engineers for your project, in collaboration with PL’s recruiting team
• Support and guide other people-managers at Protocol Labs as a member of PL’s young engineering management discipline

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
• Technical credibility through lengthy software engineering experience with back-end and distributed systems & infrastructure
• A strong desire for and history of contributions to open source projects and communities
• Experience working with and/or managing geographically distributed teams
• Actively coached, mentored and grown team members in their careers
• Ability to thrive with a high level of self-direction, autonomy and responsibility
• A track record of recruiting and retaining great people to your teams
• Excellent written and verbal communication skills
• An excitement for collaborating with people across Protocol Labs towards our shared mission

Bonus points...

• You have experience with or deep knowledge of globally distributed systems, cryptography, blockchain or other related domains
• Demonstrable open source community curation and leadership experience