Canonical Group - Seattle, WA
posted 5 days ago
Full-time - Manager
Remote - Seattle, WA
Professional, Scientific, and Technical Services
About the position
The Engineering Manager for Landscape at Canonical is responsible for leading the reboot of the Landscape systems management solution for Ubuntu. This role involves overseeing a team of engineers to enhance the management of Ubuntu estates across various environments, including cloud and on-premises. The manager will collaborate with product managers to create an engineering roadmap, ensuring the delivery of high-quality software while fostering a healthy engineering culture.
Responsibilities
- Build and lead a team of engineers in your region
- Develop talent through coaching, mentoring, feedback, and hands-on career development
- Demonstrate sound engineering principles and directly contribute toward your team's goals
- Set and manage expectations with other engineering teams, management, and external stakeholders
- Lead modern, agile software development practices
- Ensure a healthy, collaborative engineering culture in line with the company values
- Be an active part of the leadership team and collaborate with other leaders in the organisation
- Build automated, highly reliable image delivery, testing and publication pipelines
- Engage with many other teams at Canonical, as well as the open source community and commercial partners
- Work from home with global travel 4-6 weeks per year for internal and external events
Requirements
- You love to mentor, develop and grow people, and have a track record of doing it
- You are knowledgeable and passionate about software development
- You are focused on success and the delivery of timely, high quality software
- You have experience and commitment to agile development methodologies
- You have a Bachelor's or equivalent in Computer Science, STEM or similar degree
- Software development experience in Python or Golang
- Effective written and verbal communication skills
- Practical experience with Linux system administration
Benefits
- Personal learning and development budget
- Annual compensation review
- Recognition rewards
- Annual leave
- Priority Pass for travel
