Canonical is hiring a
Engineering Manager, Remote - Worldwide

Summary

The job is for an Engineering Manager at Canonical responsible for leading a team that builds, tests, and publishes Ubuntu images for public cloud instances. The role requires technical leadership, management skills, and experience with Python or Golang. The team works closely with major cloud partners like Amazon, Microsoft, and Google.

Requirements

• Knowledgeable and passionate about software development
• Focused on success and the delivery of timely, high quality software
• Experience and commitment to agile development methodologies
• Bachelor’s or equivalent in Computer Science, STEM or similar degree
• Software development experience in Python or Golang
• Effective written and verbal communication skills
• Practical experience with at least one of Microsoft Azure, Google Cloud, or AWS

Responsibilities

• Build and lead a team of engineers in your and similar timezones
• Develop talent through coaching, mentoring, feedback and hands-on career development
• Demonstrate sound engineering principles and directly contribute toward your team’s goals
• Set and manage expectations with other engineering teams, management, and external stakeholders
• Lead modern, agile software development practices
• Ensure a healthy, collaborative engineering culture in line with the company values
• Build automated, highly reliable image delivery, testing and publication pipelines
• Engage with many other teams at Canonical, as well as the open source community and commercial partners

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