Software Engineering Director

On-site

Responsibilities

Lead multiple teams of engineers, ranging from graduate to senior
Develop your engineering managers and maintain Canonical culture
Identify and measure indicators of team health and productivity
Ensure rounded delivery including community participation and docs
Implement disciplined engineering processes and defend them
Set and measure progress against benchmark goals for speed and efficiency
Develop and evangelise great engineering and organisational practices
Plan and manage progress on agreed goals and projects
Collaborate with leads for related or dependent products What we’re looking for in you
Drive and a track record of going above-and-beyond expectations

You need to understand what great code looks like in the language and genre of your product - whether that is a web service, or a system daemon, or a desktop application, or a distributed system.
You’ll need to know how to drive testing and benchmarking to improve the clarity in your teams around quality and performance.
We have director level roles across a wide range of engineering domains, including: Python and Golang C / C++ / Rust Data infrastructure
HTML / CSS / JavaScript / Typescript / React Flutter
SAAS and web microservices Kernel Servers
Undergraduate degree in Computer Science or STEM, or a compelling narrative about your alternative path
Outstanding Linux based software engineering track record
Experience in leading, coaching and mentoring software developers
You have advanced expertise in your own domain
experience working in an agile development environment
You have a demonstrated drive for continual learning
Experience in a developer advocacy or community role
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 on a daily basis.

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 recognise outstanding performance.
In addition to base pay, we offer a 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

This is the general track for Engineering Director at Canonical, apply here if you are confident to run a project which spans teams and time zones, hiring and managing engineering managers and staff engineers.
Canonical’s largest software products are built by multiple teams working together under a single director of engineering.
Once you have passed the first round of interviews we will discuss specific software products which would be a good fit for your interests.
We believe that open source is just starting to transform the tech sector and enterprise compute.
Our goal is to make open source easier, more reliable and more secure for deployment and development.
We strive to be the provider of ‘most software to most companies’.
To deliver on that ambition, our engineers are carefully selected from the applicants across the globe.
We select for brilliance and motivation to take open source to the next level.
Our engineering directors set the pace and the direction to help teams achieve more than they realised they could, and feel proud of the result.
Even though this is a senior management position, managing managers, we expect Engineering Directors to be outstanding developers with the confidence to lead by example across the full range of activities in their teams.