Engineering Manager, Core Products, Core Clients

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).

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

• Excellent communication and leadership skills
• Engineering mentorship
• Maintenance of healthy systems with low attention cost
• Low attention cost: Well implemented systems that don’t require constant attention and bugfixes
• Experience with modern DevOps tools and practices including Git
• Experience in the development lifecycle, software automation, continuous deployment and integration

In this role you will be responsible for...

• Seek to understand Filecoin/IPFS/libP2P and how it applies to the distributed peer to peer web
• Continue to develop their expertise of understanding users, markets, and products
• Will regularly communicate accomplishments and risk upward and outward
• Comfortable with over-communication
• Drive engineering rhythm for one or more engineering teams
• Actively improve processes
• Ensure quality code review across team members
• Facilitate technical designs when appropriate
• Develop junior and senior people through various career stages with regular 1-on-1s, feedback, and performance reviews
• Participate as a hiring manager on any part of the interview loop
• Self-motivated, fast learning, and will figure out how to get ambiguous tasks done
• Stays organized
• Stays detail oriented
• Cares about people

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.  

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