Remote Engineering Manager, Distributed Systems Leader

Pragmatike; Lisboa; Remote; EUR 110,000 - 150,000; 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 senior engineers on P2P networking, distributed storage, compute orchestration, and core platform services.

In this remote‑first role, you will blend people leadership with deep technical ownership, shaping architecture, ensuring high‑quality delivery, and fostering an async, writing‑first engineering culture across Europe.

Qualifications

• 7+ years of software engineering experience, with 3+ years in an Engineering Manager or technical leadership role.

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

Rust

C/C++

Linux systems

CI/CD

Observability

P2P networking

Leadership

Tools

Kubernetes

Prometheus

Grafana

OpenTelemetry

gRPC

Protobuf

libp2p

IPFS

Terraform

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 senior engineers on P2P networking, distributed storage, compute orchestration, and core platform services.

In this remote‑first role, you will blend people leadership with deep technical ownership, shaping architecture, ensuring high‑quality delivery, and fostering an async, writing‑first engineering culture across Europe.