Software Engineering Director

🕒 April 1

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Canonical

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501 - 1000 employees

Founded 2004

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.

📋 Description

• Lead multiple teams of engineers, ranging from graduate to senior • Develop your engineering managers and maintain Canonical culture • Hire staff level engineers for specific roles like performance and quality • Coach, mentor, and offer career development feedback • Identify and measure indicators of team health and productivity • Ensure rounded delivery including community participation and docs • Implement disciplined engineering processes and defend them • Set and measure progress against benchmark goals for speed and efficiency • Represent your product to stakeholders, partners, and customers • Develop and evangelise great engineering and organisational practices • Plan and manage progress on agreed goals and projects • Be an active part of the leadership team, collaborating with other leaders • Collaborate with leads for related or dependent products

🎯 Requirements

• An exceptional academic track record from both high school and university • Undergraduate degree in Computer Science or STEM, or a compelling narrative about your alternative path • Extensive management experience and confidence to set high expectations • Outstanding Linux based software engineering track record • Drive and a track record of going above-and-beyond expectations • Excellent verbal and written communication skills in English • Public speaking and presentation skills • A love of developing and growing people and a track record of it • Experience in leading, coaching and mentoring software developers • Organised and able to ensure your team delivers timely, high quality results • Well-organised, self-starting and able to deliver to schedule • Professional manner interacting with colleagues, partners, and community • You have advanced expertise in your own domain • You are knowledgeable and passionate about software development • You have solid experience working in an agile development environment • You have a demonstrated drive for continual learning • Builds trust, relationships and confidence • Result-oriented, with a personal drive to meet commitments • Ability to travel twice a year, for company events up to two weeks each

🏖️ Benefits

• 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 • Opportunity to travel to new locations to meet colleagues • Priority Pass, and travel upgrades for long haul company events