Canonical Group - Dallas, TX
posted 5 days ago
Full-time - Manager
Remote - Dallas, TX
Professional, Scientific, and Technical Services
About the position
The Software Engineering Manager for Container and Virtualisation Infrastructure at Canonical is responsible for leading a remote team of engineers focused on building a next-generation private cloud infrastructure. This role combines technical leadership with team development, ensuring high-quality software delivery while fostering a collaborative and growth-oriented environment. The manager will engage with various stakeholders, advocate for modern software practices, and participate in the engineering process through reviews and strategic planning.
Responsibilities
- 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
Requirements
- Experience in high-quality microservice architectures
- Deep familiarity with Linux kernel, virtualisation, storage, and networking
- Strong technical background in software engineering
- Experience programming in C and/or Go
- Bachelor's or equivalent in Computer Science, STEM, or similar degree
- Strong written and verbal technical communication skills
Nice-to-haves
- Experience leading successful, collaborative engineering teams
- Ability to solve challenging distributed systems problems
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
