Engineering Manager - Ubuntu Core
Canonical · Home Based - Americas; Home based - EMEA · Engineering
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A remote engineering opening from Canonical with official ATS source details and a direct employer apply link.
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- People management responsibilities?: 1
- Employment Length: Full-time
- Core skills: Analysers, Competitor, Designer, Developer, Entrepreneur, Leader, Manager, Organiser, Planner, Problem Solver, Spokesperson, Technologist
- External Departments (website): Engineering
- One line job description: Redefine the Linux experience delivered with snapd. From tiny resource constrained IoT environments to desktop and the data centre, Ubuntu helps deliver the most secure, updatable Linux environments. This is an opportunity for an engineering manager passionate about open source software, Linux, security, and the developer experience. you’ll lead a team of strong software developers to design and implement snapd features and its integration with the Snap Store
- LinkedIn Posting Level: Mid-Senior
- Featured job (Talent Team to complete): 1
Official description
Canonical is a leading provider of open source software and operating systems to the global enterprise and technology markets. Our platform, Ubuntu, is very widely used in breakthrough enterprise initiatives such as public cloud, data science, AI, engineering innovation, and IoT. Our customers include the world's leading public cloud and silicon providers, and industry leaders in many sectors. The company is a pioneer of global distributed collaboration, with 1200+ colleagues in 75+ countries and very few office-based roles. Teams meet two to four times yearly in person, in interesting locations around the world, to align on strategy and execution.
The company is founder-led, profitable, and growing.
We are hiring technical engineering manager to redefine the embedded Linux experience with the smallest, most secure, and most reliable operating system in the IoT market.
This is an opportunity for a technical leader passionate about open source software, Linux, containers, security, and the developer experience, to shape the future of Linux from the smallest systems up to desktops. This challenging role demands a high degree of technical skill as well as high caliber for inspiring and driving people.
Our mission is to allow everyone to build robust solutions in various fields including but not limited to IoT, automotive, and aviation using the next generation secure embedded Linux operating system in a simple solution. We define a reliable and secure set of device recovery mechanisms that enable device manufacturers to simplify and standardize the field operations for fleets of heterogeneous appliances.
As an engineering manager, you’ll lead a team of strong software developers to design and implement Ubuntu Core system software on various CPU architectures, such as ARM, RISC-V, and X86. You will meet stakeholders, prioritize requests, plan the roadmap and ensure the team can deliver their goals. You will have the opportunity to influence the culture, facilitate technical delivery, and work with your team on strategy and execution.
The role entails
- Building and leading a distributed team of engineers through hiring, coaching, mentoring, feedback and career development
- Demonstrating sound engineering principles by directly contributing toward your team’s goals
- Coaching and mentoring team members with hands-on career development
- Effectively setting and managing expectations with other engineering teams, senior management, and external stakeholders
- Advocating and advancing modern, agile software development practices and helping develop and evangelize great engineering and organizational practices
- Contributing to a healthy, collaborative engineering culture in line with the company values
- Actively participating in the leadership team and collaborating with other leaders in the organisation
What we are looking for in you
- Demonstrated competencies in embedded software development
- Strong skills in Golang, C++ and Shell
- A solid understanding of Linux and a modern GNU/Linux distribution, Debian or Ubuntu preferred
- Love for developing and growing people and have a track record of doing it
- Demonstrated ability of planning and executing to deliver high quality software in a timely manner
- Solid experience working in an agile development environment
- Exceptional academic track record from both high school and university
- Undergraduate degree in a technical subject or a compelling narrative about your alternative chosen path
- Professional written and spoken English with excellent presentation skills
Nice-to-have skills
- Familiarity with an immutable Linux distribution, preferably Ubuntu Core
- Experience with multiple CPU architectures such as ARM, RISC-V
- Experience with Linux native containerization and security
What we offer colleagues
We consider geographical location, experience, and performance in shaping compensation worldwide. We revisit compensation annually (and more often for graduates and associates) to ensure we recognize outstanding performance. In addition to base pay, we offer a performance-driven annual bonus or commission. We provide all team members with additional benefits which reflect our values and ideals. We balance our programs to meet local needs and ensure fairness globally.
- 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
- Team Member Assistance Program & Wellness Platform
- Opportunity to travel to new locations to meet colleagues
- Priority Pass and travel upgrades for long-haul company events
About Canonical
Canonical is a pioneering tech firm at the forefront of the global move to open source. As the company that publishes Ubuntu, one of the most important open-source projects and the platform for AI, IoT, and the cloud, we are changing the world of software. We recruit on a global basis and set a very high standard for people joining the company. We expect excellence; in order to succeed, we need to be the best at what we do. Most colleagues at Canonical have worked from home since our inception in 2004. Working here is a step into the future and will challenge you to think differently, work smarter, learn new skills, and raise your game.
Canonical is an equal opportunity employer
We are proud to foster a workplace free from discrimination. Diversity of experience, perspectives, and background create a better work environment and better products. Whatever your identity, we will give your application fair consideration.
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- First Name (Required)
- Last Name (Required)
- Email (Required)
- Phone (Optional)
- Resume/CV (Required)
- Please describe an embedded Linux or hardware project you have worked on. (Required)
- Describe your knowledge of low-level Linux container and security primitives such as cgroups, namespaces, LSMs, and SECCOMP (Required)
- Describe your engineering leadership experience. (Required)
- During this application process I agree to use only my own words. I understand that plagiarism, the use of AI or other generated content will disqualify my application. (Required)
- How did you perform in mathematics at high school? (Required)
- How did you perform in your native language at high school? (Required)
- What was your bachelor's university degree result, or expected result if you have not yet graduated? Please include the grading system to help us understand your result e.g. ‘85 out of 100’, ‘2:1 (Grading system: first class, 2:1, 2:2, third class)’ or ‘GPA score of 3.8/4.0 (predicted)’. We have hired outstanding individuals who did not attend or complete university. If this describes you, please continue with your application and enter ‘no degree’. (Required)
- Please share your rationale or evidence for the high school performance selections above. Make reference to provincial, state or nation-wide scoring systems, rankings, or recognition awards, or to competitive or selective college entrance results such as SAT or ACT scores, JAMB, matriculation results, IB results etc. We recognise every system is different but we will ask you to justify your selections above. (Required)
- We require all colleagues to meet in person 2-4 times a year, at internal company events lasting between 1-2 weeks. We try to pick new and interesting locations that will likely require international travel and entry requirement visas and vaccinations. Are you willing and able to commit to this? (Required)
- Website (Optional)
- LinkedIn Profile (Optional)
- In the past ten years, looking only at the time since you graduated your first undergraduate degree, how many companies have you worked for? (Required)
- In which country do you currently work? (Required)
- Please confirm that you have read and agree to Canonical's Recruitment Privacy Notice and Privacy Policy. (Required)
- Which gender do you identify as? (Required)
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