Software Engineering Manager

Summary

Join Canonical's distributed team as an engineering manager to drive collaborative open-source development tooling for Launchpad. This role involves leading a team, developing talent, and contributing to the company's culture.

Requirements

• Experience leading a distributed team to deliver features and manage production services at scale
• Love to mentor, develop, and grow people, and have an outstanding track record of doing so
• Knowledgeable and passionate about technology
• Experience delivering high quality software
• Experience designing and evolving complex distributed systems
• Effective written and verbal communication skills
• Solid experience working in an agile development environment

Responsibilities

• Grow and lead a team of engineers in your region
• Develop talent through coaching, mentoring, feedback, and hands-on career development
• Apply sound engineering principles and directly contribute toward your team’s goals
• Create and maintain productive relationships with stakeholders
• Set and manage expectations with other engineering teams, management, and external stakeholders
• Collaborate proactively with a distributed team and community
• Lead the ongoing development of Launchpad, the infrastructure on which great software like Ubuntu is built
• Advocate and advance modern, agile software development practices and help develop and evangelise great engineering and organisational practices
• Grow a healthy, collaborative engineering culture in line with the company values
• Actively engage with the broader leadership team

Benefits

• Work from home
• International travel up to 6 weeks per year for internal and external events