Canonical is a leading provider of open source software and operating systems to the global enterprise and technology markets. Our platform, Ubuntu, is 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 more than 80 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.
Role Overview
Engineering Manager – MAAS team. The mission with MAAS ("Metal as a Service") is to provide the best solution for building and running private bare‐metal infrastructure, putting a cloud‐style on‐demand API in front of physical server provisioning, network configuration, and storage. You will lead high‐quality software development, deliver performance, and guide strategy and execution on a hyperscale provisioning technology written in Python and Go. The MAAS stack spans the entire software stack: from low‐level hardware detection to the upper‐level web interface, API and CLI. Engineers are fluent in all layers and anticipate consequences of design and engineering choices across a complex distributed system.
Technical leadership experience and a background in software engineering are necessary prerequisites for this role. You will lead, challenge, and develop engineers, positively influence team and company culture, facilitate technical delivery, and guide strategy and execution. In addition to these responsibilities you will collaborate across engineering teams and interface regularly with cloud‐init, LXD, and our public cloud offerings.
Location: This is a work‐from‐anywhere position available in EMEA or the Americas.
The role entails
- Leading a distributed team of engineers in your time zone (we organise engineering teams by Americas, EMEA etc).
- Talent development through coaching, mentoring, feedback and career planning.
- Setting and managing expectations with other engineering teams, senior management, and external stakeholders.
- Being an advocate of, and advancing, modern software development practices.
- Participating in the engineering process through code and architectural review.
- Engaging with broader teams at Canonical, the open source community and partners.
- Travelling to internal and external global events for 4 to 6 weeks per year.
What we are looking for in you
- Bachelor's degree (or equivalent) and a background in Computer Science.
- Exceptional academic track record from both high school and university.
- Proven experience delivering software using Python, Golang, or similar languages.
- Experience with Linux system administration (Debian or Ubuntu preferred).
- Familiarity with modern Linux cloud computing technologies, including networking, storage, containers and K8S.
- Technical aptitude for understanding complex distributed systems.
- Professional written and spoken English with excellent presentation skills.
- Experience with agile software development methodologies.
- Ability to mentor, develop, and support team members.
- Result‐oriented, with a personal drive to meet commitments.
- Ability to travel internationally twice a year for company events up to two weeks long.
Nice‐to‐have skills
- Typescript using modern web frameworks such as React, Angular, Svelte or Vue.
- Data Center infrastructure management and design.
What we offer colleagues
- Distributed work environment with twice‐yearly team sprints in person - we've been working remotely since 2004.
- 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.
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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