Software Engineering Manager Full-time Job

What You’ll Do

Grow and lead a team of engineers in your region

Develop talent through coaching, mentoring, feedback, and hands-on career development

Apply sound engineering principles and directly contribute toward your team’s goals

Create and maintain productive relationships with stakeholders

Set and manage expectations with other engineering teams, management, and external stakeholders

Collaborate proactively with a distributed team and community

Lead the ongoing development of Launchpad, the infrastructure on which great software like Ubuntu is built

Advocate and advance modern, agile software development practices and help develop and evangelise great engineering and organisational practices

Grow a healthy, collaborative engineering culture in line with the company values

Actively engage with the broader leadership team

Work from home with international travel up to 6 weeks per year for internal and external events

Who You Are

You have experience leading a distributed team to deliver features and manage production services at scale

You love to mentor, develop, and grow people, and have an outstanding track record of doing so

You are knowledgeable and passionate about technology

You have experience delivering high quality software

You have experience designing and evolving complex distributed systems

You have effective written and verbal communication skills

You have solid experience working in an agile development environment

We deliver open source to the world faster, more securely and more cost effectively than any other company.We're also the publishers of Ubuntu, the worlds most popular enterprise Linux from cloud to edge, together with a passionate global community of 200,000+ contributors. Ubuntu means 'humanity to others'. We chose it because it embodies the generosity at the heart of open source, the new normal for platforms and innovation.Together with a community of 200,000, we publish an operating system that runs from the tiny connected devices up to the world's biggest mainframes, the platform that everybody uses on the public cloud, and the workstation experience of the world's most productive developers.Secure and reliable, elegant and intuitive, and open for innovation - this is the future of open source, which is why we're proud to be the developers of the fastest growing Linux in the world despite already being the most widely deployed.If you're interested in a career at Canonical, we are a remote-first company so please apply to any suitable role as skills are valued more than location, despite some having a preferred geographic preference.