Engineering Manager - Solutions Engineering

Engineering Manager - Solutions Engineering

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Canonical is a leading provider of open source software and operating systems to the global enterprise and technology markets. Our platform, Ubuntu, is widely used in breakthrough enterprise initiatives such as public cloud, data science, AI, engineering innovation, and IoT. Our customers include 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 aim to transform the world of software operations by enabling true model-driven operations via next-generation infrastructure-as-code, to run efficient bare-metal operations for high-performance computing, private cloud, data lakes, AI / ML, and analytics. We are looking for someone who can lead and inspire a regional software engineering team to fulfill this initiative.

The Solutions Engineering team works in close collaboration with our managed infrastructure operations team, which runs many private OpenStack clouds and Kubernetes clusters for customers worldwide. This enables us to improve our infra-as-code products based on real user experience. We work in Python, creating open-source automation capabilities that simplify operations for anyone building on Ubuntu.

Most of the team\'s work involves pure Python software development focused on enabling true DevOps workflows. We strive for high quality in design, documentation, tests, and performance as we enhance operations code packages and Ubuntu itself to ensure the platform is easy to use, robust, and high performing for driving infrastructure.

As an Engineering Manager, your primary responsibility is to the people you lead and support : ensuring they are growing as engineers, doing valuable work, and finding satisfaction in their career at Canonical. You will display technical leadership by leveraging a solid background in software development to challenge and grow your team members. You will influence culture, facilitate technical delivery, and work with your team on direction and execution.

What you will do

• Lead and develop a team of Python engineers working remotely in global locations
• Hiring, coaching, mentoring, feedback, and hands-on career development
• Demonstrate sound engineering principles by directly contributing code yourself
• Plan and manage progress on agreed goals and projects
• Set and manage expectations with other engineering and operations teams
• Coordinate with management and internal and external stakeholders or customers
• Advocate for modern, agile software development practices
• Help develop and evangelize great engineering and organizational practices
• Grow a healthy, collaborative engineering culture in line with company values
• Be an active part of the leadership team and collaborate with other leaders in the organization
• Travel globally up to 10% of time for internal and external events

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About Canonical

Canonical is a pioneering tech firm at the forefront of the global move to open source. As the company behind Ubuntu, we publish one of the most important open-source projects and the platform for AI, IoT, and the cloud. We recruit on a global basis and set a high standard for people joining the company. Most colleagues work from home, and working here is a step into the future that challenges you to think differently, work smarter, and learn new skills.

Canonical is an equal opportunity employer. We foster a workplace free from discrimination. Diversity of experience, perspectives, and background creates a better work environment and better products. Whatever your identity, we will give your application fair consideration.

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