engineering
Posted Feb 21, 2024Observability Engineering Manager
at Canonical
Home Based Americas, United StatesOn-site
Responsibilities
- Build a rewarding, meaningful career working with the best and brightest people in technology at Canonical, the growing international software company behind Ubuntu.
- Manage a distributed team of engineers and its observability portfolio
- Organize and lead the team’s processes in order to help it achieve its objectives
- Conduct one-on-one meetings with team members
- Identify and measure team health indicators
- Review code produced by other engineers
Requirements
- Our platform, Ubuntu, is very widely used in breakthrough enterprise initiatives such as public cloud, data science, AI, engineering innovation, and IoT.
- We are building an observability stack that is easy to deploy and operate on Kubernetes.
- This is part of a broader initiative to deliver the world's best suite of open source tools, where we provide deep integration and automation for best-of-breed open source offerings that cover metrics, logging, telemetry, alerting, tracing and profiling.
- Our implementation of Kubernetes operators is opinionated, resilient, and scalable, providing deep insights out of the box. The user
- This is an exciting opportunity for a software engineer passionate about open source software, Linux, Kubernetes, and Observability.
- A proven track record of professional experience of software delivery
- Professional software development experience, preferably with a track record in open source
- Experience with Linux (Debian or Ubuntu preferred)
- Experience as an engineering manager, with a track record of building great, high performance teams
- Professional Python development experience
- A working knowledge of Go
- experience with container technologies
- A proven understanding of the importance of observability and monitoring for keeping software running smoothly •
- Experience designing and implementing observability solutions What we offer colleagues
- As the company that publishes Ubuntu, one of the most important open-source projects and the platform for AI, IoT, and the cloud, we are changing the world of software.
Benefits
- We consider geographical location, experience, and performance in shaping compensation worldwide.
- We revisit compensation annually (and more often for graduates and associates) to ensure we recognize outstanding performance.
- In addition to base pay, we offer a 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
Additional details
- Canonical is a leading provider of open source software and operating systems to the global enterprise and technology markets.
- Our customers include the world's leading public cloud and silicon providers, and industry leaders in many sectors.
- The company is a pioneer of global distributed collaboration, with 1200+ colleagues in 75+ countries and very few office-based roles.
- Teams meet two to four times yearly in person, in interesting locations around the world, to align on strategy and execution.
- The company is founder-led, profitable, and growing.
- We are hiring an Observability Engineering Manager who will lead the development of the distributed tracing or service mesh products as part of our Observability group.
- Engineering managers at Canonical are always coders who are able to review and lead both architecture and code.
- They should also be astute judges of character, and comfortable setting expectations and holding colleagues accountable to them.
- Our goal is to make observability tools integral and pervasive across software practices .
- experience is polished and seamless for the end-users, and its administrators will enjoy smooth, lightweight Day 1 and Day 2 operations.