Engineering Manager, Infrastructure
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Requirements
• A track record of leading teams in scale/start-ups that went from ‘0 to 1’ and released their first products (as opposed to only maintaining existing products) • Exceptional leadership, communication, and drive - particularly when under pressure • Experience attracting and hiring world-class engineers • Infrastructure/Platform Engineering • Security Engineering • Preferred • Experience scaling distributed systems or high-load infrastructure • Strong security engineering background (threat modeling, reviews, audits) • Deep hands-on DevOps expertise (Kubernetes, Terraform, CI/CD) • Experience with distributed ML systems or GPU-heavy environments • Experience working cross-functionally with research teams • Founding experience • Open source contributions • Meaningful exposure to cryptocurrencies
Responsibilities
• Mentor, incentivize, and manage engineers to deliver highly complex and uncertain deliverables against tight deadlines • Lead and unblock members of your team whilst working closely with the CTO and Technical Leads to scope and report on engineering deliverables and timelines. • Hire and retain world class talent • Competencies
Benefits
• Competitive salary + share of equity and token pool • Fully remote work - we currently hire between the West Coast (PT) and Central Europe (CET) time zones • Visa sponsorship - available for those who would like to relocate to the US after being hired • 3-4x all expenses paid company retreats around the world, per year • Whatever equipment you need • Paid sick leave and flexible vacation • Company-sponsored health, vision, and dental insurance - including spouse/dependents [🇺🇸 only] • Our Principles • Our Principles • Autonomy & Independence • Don’t ask for permission - we have a constraint culture, not a permission culture. • Claim ownership of any work stream and set its goals/deadlines, rather than waiting to be assigned work or relying on job specs. • Push & pull context on your work rather than waiting for information from others and assuming people know what you’re doing. • Communicate to be understood rather than pushing out information and expecting others to work to understand it. • Stay a small team - misalignment and politics scale super-linearly with team size. Small protocol teams rival much larger traditional teams. • Rejection of mediocrity & high performance • Give direct feedback to everyone immediately - rather than avoiding unpopularity, expecting things to improve naturally, or trading short-term pain for extreme long-term pain. • Embrace an extreme learning rate - rather than assuming limits to your ability / knowledge. • Don’t quit - push to the final outcome, despite any barriers. • Be anti-fragile - balance short-term risk for long-term outcomes. • Reject waste - guard the company’s time, rather than wasting it in meetings without clear purpose/focus, or bikeshedding.