Engineering Manager; Distributed P2P Systems

Location:

Remote, Europe Time Zone

Start Date:

ASAP

Employment Type:

Full-Time
Team:
Core Compute & Distributed Systems
Language:
English

We are looking for an experienced Engineering Manager to lead a team building the distributed systems that power a decentralized compute and storage platform.

You will lead a team of senior engineers working on P2P networking, distributed storage, compute orchestration, and core platform services. You’ll combine people leadership with strong technical ownership, helping shape architecture, guide execution, and stay hands‑on with critical systems and production code.

This is a great opportunity for a technical engineering leader who enjoys working close to complex distributed systems, making pragmatic architectural decisions, and building a strong engineering culture in an async, writing‑first environment.

• Lead, mentor, and grow a high‑performing team of distributed systems and backend engineers
• Drive the technical direction and execution of core P2P, compute, and distributed platform systems
• Stay hands‑on with architecture, design, implementation, and technical problem‑solving
• Guide the development of high‑throughput distributed protocols, including peer discovery, communication, replication, and data distribution
• Oversee systems responsible for compute orchestration, provisioning, scaling, and workload distribution
• Champion reliability, resilience, observability, and production readiness across the platform
• Establish strong engineering practices around testing, CI/CD, releases, incident response, and root‑cause analysis
• Work closely with Infrastructure, Product, Security, and Platform teams on roadmaps, priorities, and cross‑team dependencies
• Run effective 1:1s, retrospectives, performance reviews, and career development conversations
• Translate technical and business priorities into clear execution plans and measurable outcomes
• Foster a culture of ownership, technical excellence, pragmatic decision‑making, and continuous improvement

• 7+ years of software engineering experience, with 3+ years in an Engineering Manager or technical leadership role
• Proven experience leading teams building and shipping distributed systems or infrastructure software to production
• Strong understanding of P2P and distributed systems, such as peer discovery, DHTs, gossip protocols, NAT traversal, replication, consensus, or content‑addressed systems
• Strong backend and systems programming experience, ideally with Go, or alternatively C/C++ or Rust
• Solid understanding of concurrency, networking, distributed communication, and fault‑tolerant system design
• Experience with compute orchestration, distributed storage, distributed databases, or platform infrastructure
• Familiarity with technologies such as libp2p, gRPC, Protobuf, IPFS/CIDs, Kubernetes, or containerised infrastructure
• Experience with observability and production operations, including tools such as Prometheus, Grafana, Open Telemetry, or distributed tracing
• Strong understanding of Linux systems and networking fundamentals
• Experience establishing engineering standards around automated testing, CI/CD, release processes, and incident management
• Strong technical judgment and the ability to balance hands‑on engineering, people leadership, and strategic decision‑making
• Excellent written and verbal communication skills, with the ability to work effectively in a remote and async environment

• Experience with distributed storage, object storage, distributed file systems, or data integrity systems
• Knowledge of S3 APIs, NFS, FUSE, POSIX semantics, block storage, or storage engines
• Experience with erasure coding, sharding, garbage collection, or large‑scale data migration
• Experience managing multi‑cloud,…