Protocol Labs Jobs

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, Sentinel, 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.