This is a director-level management opportunity to lead a globally distributed software engineering team that works in Python and Golang, and builds our systems management service Landscape, to help enterprises manage their Ubuntu operations at scale. You'll be responsible for the day-to-day leadership of several teams spread across the globe, you'll own the roadmap, set the pace for the team, and deliver high quality software both as SAAS and on-premise.
As an engineering director at Canonical you are expected to be deeply technical and to enjoy working with code, but your primary responsibility is to develop and guide your teams. You facilitate and ensure that they are continually improving, doing valuable work, and enjoying their time at Canonical despite (or perhaps because of) the intense and challenging nature of the work. You will have the opportunity to influence the culture, facilitate technical delivery, and work with your teams to hone strategy and practices. We look for cheerful but steely leads, who are ambitious to compete with the best companies in the world and deliver a better experience for open source at scale.
You'll be delivering a large project that powers complex, highly concurrent distributed software systems across the world, while growing and developing engineers at all levels. We're looking for someone with a proven track record in management, and delivery of quality software over time.
Technical contribution through code is a plus but not the primary focus of this role. Significant past experience with hands-on software development, particularly in Go, is desirable. You will be expected to lead and facilitate technical design and architecture work alongside your senior engineering staff.
The role is fully remote, with global travel for 4-6 weeks per year to facilitate company events.
Location: This role can be held anywhere in the Americas time zones, from Canada to Argentina :)
What your day will look like
1. Collaborate proactively with multiple distributed teams
2. Help engineering teams establish and achieve community engagement goals
3. Establish consistency in community process, engagement, and interaction across engineering
4. Influence others and represent technical insight to customers and other engineers
5. Spend a significant amount of time mentoring others and providing cross-team input
6. Work from home with global travel 4 to 6 weeks for internal and external events
What we are looking for in you
7. You are capable of representing Canonical / Ubuntu externally
8. You have experience leading successful projects and teams
9. You are organised and effective working through managers, from home
10. You make well-considered plans and keep on top of progress weekly
11. You are an articulate communicator
12. You love technology and working with brilliant people
13. You follow industry trends and new technologies, thoughtfully and carefully
14. You understand and value how you do what you do, as well as what you do
15. You have strong collaboration and influencing skills
16. You are curious, flexible, articulate, and accountable
17. You value soft skills and are passionate, enterprising, thoughtful, and self-motivated
18. Willingness to travel up to 4 times a year for internal events
Additional skills that you might also bring
19. Experience doing systems management of Linux infrastructure would be a plus
20. A public record of community engagement, particularly with open source communities
21. You are comfortable preparing and giving presentations
22. Experience building highly scalable Python web applications would be a plus
23. Experience building highly scalable SaaS applications would be a plus
What we offer you
Your base pay will depend on various factors including your geographical location, level of experience, knowledge and skills. In addition to the benefits above, certain roles are also eligible for additional benefits and rewards including annual bonuses and sales incentives based on revenue or utilisation. Our compensation philosophy is to ensure equity right across our global workforce.
In addition to a competitive base pay, we provide all team members with additional benefits, which reflect our values and ideals. Please note that additional benefits may apply depending on the work location and, for more information on these, you can ask in the later stages of the recruitment process.
24. Fully remote working environment - we’ve been working remotely since !
25. Personal learning and development budget of 2,USD per annum
26. Annual compensation review
27. Recognition rewards
28. Annual holiday leave
29. Parental Leave
30. Employee Assistance Programme
31. Opportunity to travel to new locations to meet colleagues at ‘sprints’
32. Priority Pass for travel and travel upgrades for long haul company events