Software Engineering Manager - Container and Virtualisation Infrastructure
Job description
Engineering manager role at Canonical leading a remote team building next-generation private cloud infrastructure based on KVM, Ceph and SDN technologies. The manager runs an effective team, develops engineers, and provides technical leadership across the LXD stack.
At a glance
- Employment
- Full-time
- Work mode
- Remote · EMEA, Americas
What you'll do
- Lead a team of remote engineers
- Develop talent through coaching, mentoring, feedback and hands-on career development
- Set and manage expectations with other engineering teams, senior management, and external stakeholders
- Advocate and advance modern software development practices
- Participate in the engineering process through code and architectural review
- Engage with teams at Canonical, the open source community and partners
- Work from home with global travel for 4 to 6 weeks per year for internal and external events
What we're looking for
- Understand modern Linux cloud computing technologies, including networking, storage, containers and K8s
- Love developing and growing people and have a strong track record of doing it
- Focused on success and the delivery of timely, high quality software
- Bachelor's or equivalent in Computer Science, STEM or similar degree
- Strong written and verbal technical communication skills
- Experience programming in C and/or Go
- Technical leadership experience and a background in software engineering
- Experience leading successful, collaborative engineering teams
- Ability to solve challenging distributed systems problems and deep knowledge of Linux
- Experience in high-quality microservice architectures and high-performance team leadership
- Deep familiarity with Linux kernel, virtualisation, storage and networking
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
- Performance-driven annual bonus
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About Canonical
A pioneering tech firm at the forefront of the global move to open source
Canonical is a leading provider of open source software and operating systems to the global enterprise and technology markets. Its platform, Ubuntu, is widely used in enterprise initiatives such as public cloud, data science, AI, engineering innovation, and IoT. The company is a pioneer of global distributed collaboration, with 1200+ colleagues in 75+ countries and very few office-based roles.
Mission
To build a next-generation private cloud infrastructure, combining KVM, Ceph, and SDN technologies to create a data center scale cloud that 'just works' and provides a mission-critical cloud for edge and core enterprise deployments.
Key facts
- 1200+ colleagues
- 2004
- Open source software and operating systems
- Publishes Ubuntu, one of the most important open-source projects
- 1200+ colleagues in 75+ countries
- Founder-led, profitable, and growing
- Most colleagues have worked from home since inception in 2004
- Teams meet two to four times yearly in person