Engineering Manager - Commercial Systems

July 2

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Canonical

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Open Source • Cloud • AI

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.

501 - 1000 employees

Founded 2004

📋 Description

• Canonical is a leading provider of open source software and operating systems to the global enterprise and technology markets. • The company is a pioneer of global distributed collaboration, with 1200+ colleagues in 75+ countries. • 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. • Our new Commercial Systems unit is conceived as five engineering teams that closely collaborate with other engineering and business teams at Canonical. • We are looking for software engineering managers, ideally with strong background in Go, Python, who have the drive and energy to lead a team of engineers in delivering and operating these capabilities at scale. • Location: This role will be based remotely in the EMEA region.

🎯 Requirements

• Bachelor's degree or equivalent in Computer Science or a related engineering field • Experience as a software developer in a high-level language - preferably Go or Python • Experience as a hands-on engineering manager or a team lead • Experience building, deploying, and operating distributed systems and APIs • Excellent verbal and written communication skills in English • Ability to collaborate remotely with a diverse set of team members and stakeholders, remain highly motivated, productive, and organized in a fully remote environment • Ability to travel to international destinations for one week at a time, approximately 2-4 times per year. Locations prior to the global pandemic included New York, Seattle, London, Cape Town, Budapest, Berlin, Montreal, and Brussels

🏖️ Benefits

• Fully remote working environment - we’ve been working remotely since 2004! • Personal learning and development budget of 2,000USD per annum • Annual compensation review • Recognition rewards • Annual holiday leave • Parental Leave • Employee Assistance Programme • Opportunity to travel to new locations to meet colleagues at ‘sprints’ • Priority Pass for travel and travel upgrades for long haul company events