Canonical is hiring a
Linux Software Engineering Manager, Remote - Worldwide

Summary

The job is for a Partner Engineering Manager at Canonical. The role involves leading an engineering team focused on various platforms, managing technical relationships with key silicon partners, collaborating with internal teams, and ensuring timely delivery of agreed project goals. The ideal candidate should have experience with Linux packaging, Python, C, C++, managing software engineers, excellent communication skills in English, and a love for developing people.

Requirements

• Experience with Linux packaging (Debian, RPM, Yocto)
• Experience working with Python
• Experience working with C, C++
• Experience managing software engineers with a track record of planning, delivery and quality
• Excellent verbal and written communication skills in English
• A love of developing and growing people and a track record of it
• Organised and able to ensure your team delivers timely, high quality results
• Well-organised, self-starting and able to ensure your team delivers to schedule
• Professional manner interacting with colleagues, partners, and community
• Experience working with customers, going beyond resolving their technical issues, to interpreting their business challenges and effectively communicating how your solution will meet their needs
• High-quality, well-designed and well-documented software experience
• Builds trust, relationships and confidence
• Solid experience working in an agile development environment
• Ability to travel twice a year, for company events up to two weeks each

Responsibilities

• Lead and develop a team of engineers, ranging from graduate to senior
• Represent your team to partners, product stakeholders and customers
• Collaborate proactively with a globally distributed organisation
• Develop and evangelise great engineering and organisational practices
• Coach, mentor, and offer career development feedback
• Implement disciplined engineering processes
• Plan and manage progress on agreed goals and projects
• Be an active part of the leadership team, collaborating with other leaders
• Collaborate with other teams at Canonical to ensure alignment on product architecture and roadmaps
• Design and integrate new features and platform optimisations

Preferred Qualifications

• Experience working with open source communities and licenses
• Experience with server technologies, including UEFI firmware, GPU computing, RDMA/Infiniband and virtualization stacks (kvm, qemu, libvirt)
• Experience with IoT / Embedded devices from firmware, boot loaders and BSP enablement including hardware accelerators
• Experience with graphics stacks
• Experience with open source networking technologies (eBPF, OVS, OVN, SoNIC, DPDK, SPDK, etc)
• Experience with container technologies such as LXD, Docker and Kubernetes

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