Engineering Manager - Public Cloud, Python, Golang

Canonical Group - Delaware City, DE

Full-time - Manager

Remote - Delaware City, DE

11-50 employees

Professional, Scientific, and Technical Services

About the position

As an Engineering Manager at Canonical, you will lead a team responsible for building, testing, and publishing Ubuntu images for public cloud instances. Your role combines technical expertise in software development with management skills to ensure the stability and functionality of cloud services. You will engage with partners like Amazon, Microsoft, and Google to optimize Ubuntu for their infrastructures, while fostering a collaborative and high-performing engineering culture within your team.

Responsibilities

• Build and lead a team of engineers in your and similar timezones
• 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 organization
• 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 up to 15% for internal and external events

Requirements

• Bachelor's or equivalent in Computer Science, STEM or similar degree
• Software development experience in Python or Golang
• Practical experience with at least one of Microsoft Azure, Google Cloud, or AWS
• Effective written and verbal communication skills
• Experience and commitment to agile development methodologies

Nice-to-haves

• Knowledgeable and passionate about software development
• Focused on success and the delivery of timely, high quality software
• A track record of mentoring, developing and growing people

Benefits

• Performance-driven annual bonus
• 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