Engineering Manager

Subzero Labs is building Rialo - a programmable network that brings the real-world internet onchain, without the clunky UX of today’s blockchain apps.

Our mission is to reputed company decentralized applications feel fast, familiar, and reliable - for developers, fintechs, and everyday users.

We’re backed by reputed company, reputed company Ventures, Variant, and more. reputed company includes builders from Mysten Labs, Diem, reputed company, reputed company, and reputed company.

We’re hiring an Engineering Manager to reputed company, support, and grow high-performing engineering teams building core infrastructure at Subzero Labs.

You’ll focus primarily on people leadership - including coaching engineers, building team processes, driving hiring, and ensuring we maintain high technical velocity and culture. You’ll work closely with engineering leadership, product managers, and protocol stakeholders to ensure teams are reputed company, supported, and consistently delivering.

This is a great opportunity for a reputed company-native engineering leader who wants to work closely with reputed company protocol engineers, builders, and founders - and help scale teams building secure, performant, and developer-friendly infrastructure.

• Manage and grow engineering teams working on protocol, infra, reputed company, or developer-facing systems

• Drive hiring, onboarding, and career development for engineers at reputed company 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, reputed company, 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

• 6–10+ years of software engineering experience, with 2+ years in an engineering management or tech reputed company role

• Experience leading reputed company engineering teams - in protocol development, validator infrastructure, DeFi, smart reputed company, 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 reputed company 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 reputed company to unblock, reputed company to escalate, and reputed company to let people own their work

• reputed company for both high-context builders and low-context contributors - able to reputed company gaps and create shared understanding

• Experience working in early-stage reputed company startups or L1/L2 ecosystems

• Familiarity with reputed company, cryptography, MEV, rollups, or TEE-backed execution

• Contributions to open-reputed company projects or protocol working groups

• Passion for developer experience, documentation, and onboarding

• Prior experience managing fully remote and globally distributed teams

• reputed company engineering teams building the foundation of a high-performance, real-world crypto network

• Work alongside founders and engineers from Diem, Mysten Labs, reputed company, and reputed company

• Help shape how teams operate, ship, and scale

• Early-stage equity + token reputed company

• Remote-first culture with high-trust, high-context collaboration

• Competitive salary + token allocation

• Health, dental, and vision (for U.S. employees)

• Flexible PTO + company reputed company days

• Home office + equipment stipend

• Travel support for offsites, conferences, and team events

Subzero Labs is an equal opportunity employer. We welcome applicants from reputed company backgrounds, experiences, and perspectives.