Software Engineering Manager - Container and Virtualisation Infrastructure

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.

Our mission is to build a next-generation private cloud infrastructure combining KVM Ceph and SDN technologies to create a data center scale cloud that 'just works' and provides a mission-critical cloud for edge and core enterprise deployments. We're hiring engineering managers with experience in high-quality microservice architectures and high-performance team leadership who also have deep familiarity with Linux kernel virtualisation storage and networking.

LXD components span the entire software stack from low-level kernel features to the upper level management API/CLI. Our most effective engineers are fluent in all these layers and able to anticipate the consequences of design and engineering choices elsewhere in a complex distributed system.

As an engineering manager at Canonical you must have a solid technical background but your responsibility is to run an effective team and develop the colleagues you manage. You are expected to help them grow as engineers do important work do it outstandingly well find professional and personal satisfaction and work well with colleagues and the community. Technical leadership experience and a background in software engineering are necessary prerequisites for this role. You will be expected to lead challenge and develop engineers positively influence the culture facilitate technical delivery and work with your team on strategy and execution.

The successful candidate will have experience leading successful collaborative engineering teams and demonstrate the ability to solve challenging distributed systems problems and deep knowledge of Linux.

Location : This is a remote position available in EMEA and the Americas.

What you will focus on

• Lead a team of remote engineers

• Develop talent through coaching mentoring feedback and hands-on career development

• Set and manage expectations with other engineering teams senior management and external stakeholders

• Advocate and advance modern software development practices

• Participate in the engineering process through code and architectural review

• Engage with teams at Canonical the open source community and partners

• Work from home with global travel for 4 to 6 weeks per year for internal and external events

What we are looking for in you

• You understand modern Linux cloud computing technologies including networking storage containers and K8s

• You love developing and growing people and have a strong track record of doing it

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

• You have a Bachelor’s or equivalent in Computer Science STEM or similar degree

• You have strong written and verbal technical communication skills

• You have experience programming in C and/or Go.

What we offer you

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 recognise outstanding performance. In addition to base pay we offer a performance-driven annual bonus. 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

• Employee Assistance Programme

• 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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