
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.
🕒 April 1
🏈 North America – Remote
⏰ Full Time
🟡 Mid-level
🟠 Senior
👮♀️ Software Engineering Manager
👻 Ghost score 58%
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First seen by Remote Rocketship April 1
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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.
• Lead a remote team of engineers in your time zone • Develop talent through coaching, mentoring, feedback, and hands-on career development • Set and manage expectations with engineering teams, management, and external stakeholders • Participate in the leadership team and collaborate with organisational leaders • Build clean web service APIs with the team for CLI and web frontend clients using Python and optionally Golang • Engage with Canonical teams, the open-source community, and commercial partners • Develop and review code as a technical leader • Provide architectural leadership and ensure healthy engineering practices, documentation, quality, and performance optimisation • Collaborate with Engineering Managers, product managers, and architects to produce an engineering roadmap • Facilitate technical delivery and reflect with the team on strategy and execution
• Good experience in leading modern, agile software development practices • Experience in forming a healthy, collaborative engineering culture in line with the company values • Demonstrative experience of being a role model for sound engineering principles and directly contributing toward your team's goals • Willingness to travel up to 4 times a year for internal events • Track record of mentoring, developing and growing people • Knowledge of and passion for software development • Focus on success and timely delivery of high-quality software • Experience and commitment to agile development methodologies • Software development experience in Python; experience in Golang is a plus • Effective written and verbal communication skills • Practical experience with Linux system administration
• 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 • Additional benefits and rewards may include annual bonuses and sales incentives based on revenue or utilisation
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