Engineering Director, Ubuntu Desktop

Summary

Join Canonical as Director, Ubuntu Desktop Engineering to lead the mission to deliver the world's best open source desktop experience and developer platform.

Requirements

• An exceptional academic track record at both high school and university
• A degree in software engineering, science, mathematics or related field
• Passion for desktop and graphics technology evidenced by deep personal investment in cutting edge techniques and capabilities
• Drive and a track record of excellence in leadership and operations
• Professional written and spoken English with outstanding presentation skill
• Deep operational experience with Linux (Ubuntu preferred)
• Excellent interpersonal skills, curiosity, flexibility, and accountability
• Result-oriented, with a personal drive to meet commitments
• Thoughtfulness and self-motivation
• Ability to travel twice a year, for company events up to two weeks long

Responsibilities

• Agree strategy for Ubuntu desktop editions, working with community flavors
• Lead architecture for next-generation desktop services and systems in Rust, C, C++, Flutter and Golang
• Ensure that performance engineering, security engineering and documentation are deep values across the team
• Identify significant new open source capabilities and prioritize their inclusion in the desktop
• Challenge teams to rethink and re-imagine the desktop on a decade-long timeline
• Coordinate roadmap across Ubuntu and Canonical products with wider engineering leadership
• Shape the design of the Ubuntu experience in heterogenous environments - with Windows and Mac, on bare metal and cloud
• Engage with silicon vendors to enable future generations of desktop silicon and hardware

Preferred Qualifications

• Software engineering management and leadership across multiple products and teams
• Rust, Golang or C/C++ architecture, performance and quality engineering insights
• Flutter and Dart experience and insights into the Flutter community
• Deep technical knowledge of graphics hardware and software layers in Linux

Benefits

• Distributed work environment with twice-yearly team sprints in person
• Personal learning and development budget of USD 2,000 per year
• Annual compensation review
• Recognition rewards
• Annual holiday leave
• Maternity and paternity leave
• Employee Assistance Programme
• Opportunity to travel to new locations to meet colleagues
• Priority Pass, and travel upgrades for long haul company events