Engineering Manager - Public Cloud, Python, Golang

Canonical is a leading provider of open source software and operating systems to the global enterprise and technology markets. Our platform Ubuntu is very widely used in breakthrough enterprise initiatives such as public cloud data science AI engineering innovation and IoT. Our customers include the world's leading public cloud and silicon providers and industry leaders in many sectors. The company is a pioneer of global distributed collaboration with 1200+ colleagues in 75+ countries and very few office-based roles. Teams meet two to four times yearly in person in interesting locations around the world to align on strategy and execution.

The company is founder-led profitable and growing.

We are hiring an Engineering Manager to lead one of our teams that work closely with Amazon Microsoft Google and other world-class cloud partners to optimize Ubuntu for their infrastructure. Our team builds tests and publishes the base Ubuntu images used by millions to ensure optimal performance and security in their cloud estate. We aim to deliver the very best public cloud VM experience as well as specialized images for specific purposes on each cloud. Our goal is to celebrate and enable their particular points of differentiation on their clouds while also ensure a common operating experience for their users.

As an engineering manager you need to bring both technical and management skills to the leadership of your team. You will also need to represent the team in direct partner engagement. You’ll be responsible for the stability and functionality that our cloud users have come to expect. You will strive to automate the delivery of existing and new Ubuntu image products applied to all modern workloads from web servers to GPU-aided AI for servers VM’s and containers.

As an engineering manager at Canonical your primary responsibility is to the people you support: ensuring that they are growing as engineers doing valuable work and generally having a great time at Canonical. As a lead for strong engineers technical leadership and a solid background in software development is a must so that you’re able to challenge and grow your team members. You will have the opportunity to influence the culture facilitate technical delivery and work with your team on strategy and execution.

We work in Python and Golang and expect engineering managers to be fluent in the language architecture and components that their team is building with. Code reviews and architectural leadership are part of the job. As manager the commitment to healthy engineering practices documentation quality and performance optimisation are equally important technical responsibilities as is the requirement for fair and clear management and the obligation to ensure a high performing team.

The role entails

• 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

• Be an active part of the leadership team and collaborate with other leaders in the organisation

• 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

• Work from home with global travel up to 15% for internal and external events

What we are looking for in you

• You love to mentor develop and grow people and have a track record of doing it

• You are knowledgeable and passionate about software development

• You are focused on success and the delivery of timely high quality software

• You have experience and commitment to agile development methodologies

• You have a 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

What we offer colleagues

We consider geographical location experience and performance in shaping compensation worldwide. We revisit compensation annually (and more often for graduates and associates) to ensure we recognize outstanding performance. In addition to base pay we offer a performance-driven annual bonus or commission. We provide all team members with additional benefits which reflect our values and ideals. We balance our programs to meet local needs and ensure fairness globally.

• Distributed work environment with twice-yearly team sprints in person

• Personal learning and development budget of USD 2000 per year

• Annual compensation review

• Recognition rewards

• Annual holiday leave

• Maternity and paternity leave

• Team Member Assistance Program & Wellness Platform

• Opportunity to travel to new locations to meet colleagues

• Priority Pass and travel upgrades for long-haul company events

About Canonical

Canonical is a pioneering tech firm at the forefront of the global move to open source. As the company that publishes Ubuntu one of the most important open-source projects and the platform for AI IoT and the cloud we are changing the world of software. We recruit on a global basis and set a very high standard for people joining the company. We expect excellence; in order to succeed we need to be the best at what we do. Most colleagues at Canonical have worked from home since our inception in 2004.​ Working here is a step into the future and will challenge you to think differently work smarter learn new skills and raise your game.

Canonical is an equal opportunity employer

We are proud to foster a workplace free from discrimination. Diversity of experience perspectives and background create a better work environment and better products. Whatever your identity we will give your application fair consideration.

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