Staff Engineer - Development Lifecycle
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Job description
Lead Canonical's effort to make Ubuntu fit for mission-critical, highly regulated environments such as automotive, aerospace and industrial robotics, by driving engineering excellence, compliance and certification practices across the organisation. The role sits in the industrial standards team and works closely with company-wide engineering leadership.
At a glance
- Work mode
- Remote · European, Middle Eastern, African or Americas regions or time zones
What you'll do
- Transform complex regulatory, compliance and certification demands into concrete outcomes and engineering excellence values and practices
- Lead and challenge engineering culture, working with teams across the organisation
- Unify agile approaches across multiple projects and teams
- Help define Canonical's ways of working, collaborating with engineering leadership to describe and implement continuous improvement processes
- Establish qualification requirements in support of engineering quality standards
- Define methods and approaches for measuring quality and use them to shape and sharpen engineering culture
- Establish strategic relations with external working groups, committees and partners
- Work closely with company-wide engineering leadership to define and deliver this vision
What we're looking for
- Strong experience in engineering and process management in an agile environment
- Knowledge or certification of standards addressing quality of software artifacts such as ISO/IEC 25010 or ASPICE
- Love developing and growing people and teams with a track record of doing it
- Have led successful compliance and certification efforts, with understanding of the process and stakeholder management required
- Experience with Linux
Nice to have
- Background as a software developer
- Experience in establishing product engineering development metrics and KPIs
- Strong critical thinking and problem-solving skills
Your team
industrial standards team
Benefits
- 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
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About Canonical
The company that publishes Ubuntu
Canonical is a pioneering tech firm that is 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 on a daily basis. Canonical has been a remote-first company since its inception in 2004.
Mission
To be at the forefront of the global move to open source
Key facts
- 2004
- Publishes Ubuntu, one of the most important open source projects and the platform for AI, IoT and the cloud
- Remote-first company since its inception in 2004
- Recruits on a global basis
What they value
- Excellence
- Diversity of experience, perspectives, and background