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 the Retrieval Markets Lab

The mission of the Retrieval Markets Lab is to enable the emergence of a decentralized CDN for content addressed data. Retrieval Markets will allow anyone to participate and contribute their resources to the ecosystem. This mission covers research and engineering into topics such as p2p networking, cryptoeconomics, data transfer protocols, reputation systems, indexing, edge computation and blockchain scalability solutions.

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.