Canonical Group - Dallas, TX
posted 2 months ago
Full-time - Manager
Remote - Dallas, TX
1,001-5,000 employees
Professional, Scientific, and Technical Services
About the position
Canonical is seeking an Engineering Manager to lead a distributed team responsible for delivering essential components of Ubuntu, including system startup, compilers, language runtimes, and toolchains. This role is pivotal in driving Ubuntu's development, requiring a deep understanding of Linux and exceptional leadership skills to inspire and grow the engineering team. The position involves collaboration with product management and cross-functional teams to define the vision and strategy for Ubuntu, while promoting a healthy engineering culture aligned with company values.
Responsibilities
- Lead and grow a team of distributed engineers
- Demonstrate sound engineering principles through active and hands-on leadership
- Be responsible for planning, estimation, and execution
- Work with product management to define the vision and strategy for Ubuntu
- Collaborate with cross-functional leadership teams
- Drive the advancement and adoption of the latest software development practices
- Design, embrace, and evangelize great engineering and organizational practices
- Grow a healthy, collaborative engineering culture in line with company values
- Engage with other teams at Canonical to ensure alignment on product architecture and roadmaps
Requirements
- Extensive experience with Linux distributions and packaging technologies (e.g. deb, rpm)
- Demonstrated experience managing or leading a team of software engineers
- High quality software engineering knowledge in Linux system architecture, boot process, and toolchains (Java/GCC/Python/Rust/Go)
- Experience with ARM and/or RISC-V
- Engagement with open source communities and processes
Benefits
- Performance-driven annual bonus or commission
- 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
