Engineering Manager – Remote Jobs

Job Type: Engineering Manager from home
Location: Florida work from home
Company: Protocol Labs 

Position Description:

Protocol Labs promotes computing innovations to advance humanity. Although Protocol Labs is a product development lab, the protocols and tools we create, the research, and the implementations are all the work of enthusiastic individuals, colleagues, and community members. The majority of Protocol Labs Network teams are globally scattered and operate remotely. As we explore new developments at the nexus of several intriguing topics (web3, cryptography, networks, distributed systems), engineers, researchers, and operators collaborate openly to improve the internet, humanity’s most significant technology (startups, research, open-source, distributed work).

Stewards The direction and standards provided by libp2p apply to projects, protocols, and architecture. Create a thriving community of contributors around libp2p

You will manage engineering at Protocol Labs.

• Increase the influence of various software engineering teams and open source contributors in the development of intricate, distributed systems and protocols.
• Through consistent 1:1 conversations, mentoring, useful feedback, work and peer alignment, and career advocacy, engineers can develop their knowledge, experience, and confidence.
• In order to increase open source community participation and work in sync with it, lead, enhance, and record procedures for technical priority, planning, design, implementation, and releases.
• Maintain open lines of communication with neighboring teams and stakeholders to create a shared understanding and to accommodate conflicting goals.
• Give engineers the tools they need to address issues while promoting a balance between speed and accuracy using scalable, asynchronous decision-making techniques.
• Maintain and develop a culture of development, openness, trust, rigor, humility, mutual support, and psychological safety within the team and community.
• Promote and improve PL’s dispersed, asynchronous, and autonomous working environment.
• Together with the PL recruiting team, take the initiative in finding outstanding engineers for your project.
• As a part of the developing engineering management discipline at Protocol Labs, assist and mentor other people managers.

If you have, you might be a good fit for this position.

• Success in managing or leading engineering teams that are highly effective, healthy, diverse, and collaborative.
• Technical credibility gained through extensive software engineering experience with distributed and back-end systems.
• a strong desire to participate in and a track record of doing so in open source projects and communities.
• working with or leading teams that are dispersed geographically.
• actively guided, mentored, and helped team members develop professionally.
• a high degree of self-direction, autonomy, and accountability are required for success.
• a history of adding outstanding people to your teams and keeping them there.
• outstanding verbal and written communication abilities.
• a passion for working with colleagues from throughout Protocol Labs to accomplish our shared goal.