Engineering Manager - Public Cloud, Python, Golang

Home Based Americas, United StatesOn-site

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
Build automated, highly reliable image delivery, testing and publication pipelines

Our platform, Ubuntu, is very widely used in breakthrough enterprise initiatives such as public cloud, data science, AI, engineering innovation, and IoT.
We are hiring an Engineering Manager to lead one of our teams that work closely with Amazon, Microsoft, Google and other world-class cloud partners to optimize Ubuntu for their infrastructure.
You will also need to represent the team in direct partner engagement.
You will strive to automate the delivery of existing and new Ubuntu image products applied to all modern workloads from web servers to GPU-aided AI for servers, VM’s and containers.
As a lead for strong engineers, technical leadership and a solid background in software development is a must, so that you’re able to challenge and grow your team members.
We work in Python and Golang, and expect engineering managers to be fluent in the language, architecture and components that their team is building with.
You love to mentor, develop and grow people, and have a track record of doing it
You have a Bachelor’s or equivalent in Computer Science, STEM or similar degree
Software development experience in Python or Golang
experience with at least one of Microsoft Azure, Google Cloud, or AWS 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.

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

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.
Our team builds, tests, and publishes the base Ubuntu images used by millions to ensure optimal performance and security in their cloud estate.
We aim to deliver the very best public cloud VM experience, as well as specialized images for specific purposes on each cloud. Our goal is to celebrate and enable their particular points of differentiation on their clouds, while also ensure a common operating experience for their users.
You’ll be responsible for the stability and functionality that our cloud users have come to expect.
As an engineering manager at Canonical your primary responsibility is to the people you support: ensuring that they are growing as engineers, doing valuable work, and generally having a great time at Canonical.
You will have the opportunity to influence the culture, facilitate technical delivery, and work with your team on strategy and execution.