Distributed Systems Engineering Manager — Remote (EU)

Pragmatike; Paris; Remote; EUR 120,000 - 180,000; Full time

Job summary

Pragmatike is seeking an experienced Engineering Manager to lead a team building the distributed systems powering a decentralized compute and storage platform. You will guide architecture, own critical systems, and stay hands-on while fostering an async, writing-first engineering culture.

You will mentor senior engineers, shape technical direction for P2P networking, distributed storage, and platform services, and collaborate closely with Infrastructure, Product, Security, and Platform teams.

Qualifications

• 7+ years of software engineering experience including leadership roles.
• Experience leading teams building distributed systems or infrastructure software to production.
• Proficiency with Go, C/C++, or Rust and strong Linux networking fundamentals.

Responsibilities

• 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.

Skills

Distributed systems

Go

C/C++

Rust

Linux networking

Concurrency

Backend development

Communication skills

Tools

libp2p

gRPC

Protobuf

IPFS/CIDs

Kubernetes

Job description

Pragmatike is seeking an experienced Engineering Manager to lead a team building the distributed systems powering a decentralized compute and storage platform. You will guide architecture, own critical systems, and stay hands-on while fostering an async, writing-first engineering culture.

You will mentor senior engineers, shape technical direction for P2P networking, distributed storage, and platform services, and collaborate closely with Infrastructure, Product, Security, and Platform teams.