Engineering Manager

The role

You will lead, support, and grow engineering teams building core infrastructure. You will focus on people leadership, coaching engineers, building team processes, and driving hiring.

What you will do

• Manage and grow engineering teams working on protocol, infra, security, or developer-facing systems
• Drive hiring, onboarding, and career development for engineers at all levels
• Create an environment of high ownership, psychological safety, and collaborative velocity
• Partner with engineering leadership to implement structured processes around code reviews, RFCs, testing, and release management
• Support engineers through regular 1:1s, performance feedback, goal setting, and mentorship
• Collaborate cross-functionally with product, BD, DevRel, and community teams to align roadmap delivery
• Help manage team rituals - including sprint planning, retrospectives, technical reviews, and team offsites
• Drive internal communication and alignment across globally distributed teams

Required qualifications

• 6–10+ years of software engineering experience
• 2+ years in an engineering management or tech lead role
• Experience leading Web3 engineering teams - in protocol development, validator infrastructure, DeFi, smart contracts, or cryptography
• Strong people leadership skills - coaching, hiring, growing high-agency engineers
• Operational excellence - you know how to build and maintain scalable, async-friendly team systems
• Familiarity with modern Web3 engineering stacks - e.g. Rust, Golang, Solidity, zk tooling, Cosmos SDK, or similar
• Effective communicator - clear across code, documentation, written specs, and verbal updates
• Strong judgment - you know when to unblock, when to escalate, and when to let people own their work
• Empathy for both high-context builders and low-context contributors

Nice to have

• Experience working in early-stage Web3 startups or L1/L2 ecosystems
• Familiarity with consensus, cryptography, MEV, rollups, or TEE-backed execution
• Contributions to open-source projects or protocol working groups
• Passion for developer experience, documentation, and onboarding
• Prior experience managing fully remote and globally distributed teams

Benefits

• Competitive salary + token allocation
• Health, dental, and vision (for U.S. employees)
• Flexible PTO + company recharge days
• Home office + equipment stipend
• Travel support for offsites, conferences, and team events
• Early-stage equity + token upside

About the company

Subzero Labs is building Rialo - a programmable network that brings the real-world internet onchain. The team includes builders from Mysten Labs, Diem, Apple, Netflix, and Google.