Engineering Manager – Distributed Systems, Python / Go

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⏰ Full Time

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🟠 Senior

👮‍♀️ Software Engineering Manager

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Canonical

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501 - 1000 employees

Founded 2004

🤖 Artificial Intelligence

Open Source • Cloud • Artificial Intelligence

Canonical is the company behind Ubuntu, the world's most popular open-source operating system, which provides fast, modern, and secure Linux solutions for desktops, servers, and cloud environments. They offer a comprehensive set of products and services, including Ubuntu Desktop, Ubuntu Server, cloud solutions such as OpenStack, and tools for managing containerized applications with Kubernetes. Canonical focuses on making open-source technology reliable and accessible across various industries, from IoT and AI to enterprise infrastructure.

📋 Description

• Lead, coach, and develop a high-performing team of software and quality engineers from graduate to senior level • Set expectations, strengthen engineering practices, and ensure timely delivery against agreed goals • Partner with senior engineers on technical strategy, architecture, roadmap, and engineering standards • Guide automated testing infrastructure development for distributed-system reliability, interoperability, and resilience • Improve CI pipelines, testing tools, and reporting across bare-metal, private-cloud, and public-cloud environments • Enable Canonical engineering teams to adopt distributed-systems testing practices and tooling • Provide technical leadership through design and code reviews, debugging, and hands-on engineering • Represent the team with stakeholders and collaborate across Canonical on quality engineering, infrastructure, and developer experience

🎯 Requirements

• An exceptional academic track record from both high school and university • Experience in leading, coaching, and mentoring software engineers • Professional software engineering experience with Python or Go • Expertise in distributed systems, cloud infrastructure, quality engineering, or a closely related domain • Strong knowledge of modern software testing processes, strategies, and automation • Experience with Linux (Debian or Ubuntu preferred) • Strong technical judgement and ability to engage in code reviews, architecture discussions, and software design • Experience working in an agile development environment and ability to organize a team to deliver high-quality results • Professional written and spoken English • Ability to travel twice a year for company events up to two weeks each • Experience with cloud technologies such as Kubernetes, OpenStack, Juju, Terraform, AWS, Google Cloud, or Azure is valued • Experience designing testing strategies for distributed or cloud-native systems is valued • Experience building or operating large-scale CI/CD and test infrastructure is valued • Experience applying AI or machine learning to test analysis, failure classification, or engineering workflows is valued • Experience deploying, operating, or debugging distributed systems is valued • Experience leading globally distributed teams is valued

🏖️ Benefits

• Performance-driven annual bonus • Distributed work environment with twice-yearly team sprints in person • 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 and wellness support • Opportunity to travel to new locations to meet colleagues • Priority Pass and travel upgrades for long-haul company events

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