Vacancies at Canonical

As an Engineering Manager on the Foundations team, you must be passionate about the future of Ubuntu, mindful of the dynamics of the open source ecosystem, and equally aware of the needs of enterprise technologists. You will work closely with product managers to define and deliver the Ubuntu roadmap.

Your primary responsibility is to your team: helping them grow as engineers, do important and satisfying work, and have a great time while doing it. Technical leadership experience and a background in software engineering are necessary prerequisites for this role. You will be expected to lead, challenge, and develop strong engineers, positively influence the culture, facilitate technical delivery, and work with your team on strategy and execution.

This Engineering Management role is an opportunity for a technologist with a passion for Linux and Ubuntu to build a career with Canonical and drive the success of the business. If you have an affinity for open source development, then you will enjoy working with some of the best people in the industry at Canonical.

What you'll do

• Demonstrate sound engineering principles through architecture, development and code reviews
• Be responsible for planning, estimation and execution
• Work with product management to define the vision and strategy for Ubuntu
• Set and manage expectations with other engineering teams, senior management, and external stakeholders
• Build and lead a distributed regional team of engineers
• Offer coaching, mentoring, technical feedback and hands-on career development
• Advocate and advance modern, agile software development practices
• Design, embrace and evangelize great engineering and organizational practices
• Grow a healthy, collaborative engineering culture in line with company values
• Be an active part of the leadership team and collaborate with other leaders in the organization
• Work from home with international travel up to 6 weeks per year for internal and external events

Valued Skills And Experience

• Deep knowledge of Debian/Ubuntu architecture
• Good understanding of Debian packaging policy, tools and techniques
• High quality software engineering with in-depth knowledge of C/C++ and Python
• Engagement with open source communities and processes
• Experience in one or more of: Linux system architecture, boot process, Java/GCC/Python/Rust/Go toolchains, ARM and/or RISC-V
• Experience managing software developers with a track record of planning, delivery and quality
• A love of developing and growing people and a track record of doing it
• Experience working in an agile development environment

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As the Ubuntu Quality Engineering Manager, you must be passionate about the future of Ubuntu, mindful of the dynamics of the open source ecosystem, and equally aware of mission critical requirements. You will work closely with the various teams involved in creating Ubuntu and influence their practices to improve quality in every step of Ubuntu engineering. Your goal is to rethink the way a Linux distro approaches quality - bringing together automation, third-party analysis tooling, feedback loops from the community and user base, and our own test capabilities. Your team will monitor, develop and improve the quality of the Ubuntu System, to drive quality excellence and best devops practices among Ubuntu Desktop, Server, Containers and VM at package, system and cluster levels.

As an engineering manager at Canonical your role is technical but your focus is your team. You are expected to help them grow as engineers, do important and satisfying work, and work well with colleagues and 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 strong engineers, positively influence the culture, facilitate technical delivery, and work with your team on strategy and execution.

What you'll do

• Set and manage expectations with other engineering teams, management, and external stakeholders
• Advocate and advance modern, agile software development practices
• Develop and evangelize great engineering and organizational practices
• Setup and maintain continuous integration for all supported deliverables
• Define and monitor quality metrics
• Develop a team with a culture of high quality and performance
• Work from home with international travel twice per year for up to two weeks

Who you are

• You have a strong software engineering, Linux, and open source background
• Your technical knowledge includes C/C++, Python programming and Shell scripting
• You have experience with data science to support data-driven quality strategies
• You have experience with quality processes and continuous integration tools and principles
• You have engineering management experience and enjoy growing people