Engineering Manager (Distributed P2P Systems)

What You’ll Do

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

What We’re Looking For

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 containerized infrastructure

Experience with observability and production operations, including tools such as Prometheus, Grafana, OpenTelemetry, 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

Nice to Have

Experience with distributed storage, object storage, distributed filesystems, 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, bare-metal, or geographically distributed infrastructure

Familiarity with GPU infrastructure, distributed AI compute, model serving, or inference routing

Experience with infrastructure-as-code such as Terraform, Pulumi, or similar tools

Experience working with decentralized, blockchain, Web3, or other P2P architectures

Why This Role Matters

Shape a distributed platform from the core: Influence the architecture of the systems that power decentralized compute and storage

Lead a strong technical team: Mentor senior engineers and build an environment where engineers can do their best work

Stay hands-on: Continue solving complex technical problems while growing as an engineering leader

Work on genuinely distributed infrastructure: Tackle challenges around networking, replication, resilience, data distribution, and compute at scale

Influence architecture: Make meaningful technical decisions rather than simply managing delivery

Work across the platform: Collaborate with Infrastructure, Security, Product, and Backend teams

Remote-first and async: Work remotely with strong European time-zone overlap in a writing-first engineering culture

How We Work

We favor clear written communication, focused deep work, and pragmatic engineering over unnecessary meetings and synchronization.

Our engineering culture emphasizes:

RFCs and well-documented technical decisions

High automated test coverage and rigorous production validation

Pragmatic, maintainable code

Strong observability and operational ownership

Regular production releases

Continuous improvement through retrospectives and post-incident reviews

Pragmatike is an Equal Opportunity Employer and is committed to providing equal employment opportunities to all applicants without discrimination or harassment based on race, color, religion, age, sex, national origin, disability status, genetics, protected veteran status, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, or any other characteristic protected by applicable law.

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