Engineering Director - Commercial Systems
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Full Time
Posted February 23, 2026
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Job Description
The Engineering Director at Canonical is responsible for leading multiple engineering teams that develop and operate core internal software products, including billing, contracts, and security patch services, to support the company's business growth and innovation efforts.
Key Responsibilities
- Lead multiple engineering teams and oversee their development and operations.
- Develop and mentor engineering managers to maintain company culture.
- Establish and promote engineering practices and processes within teams.
- Set performance goals, manage performance, and measure team health indicators.
- Own product development roadmaps for the teams.
- Collaborate with leadership and stakeholders to align on strategy and execution.
- Expand teams by recruiting and hiring talented engineers.
Requirements
- Proven ability to drive multiple teams or large teams of software engineers to deliver outstanding results
- Engineering experience in at least one of the following areas: Golang, Python, Java, or distributed integrations
- Result-oriented, with a personal drive to meet commitments
- Professional written and spoken English with excellent presentation skills
- Ability to travel internationally twice a year, for company events up to two weeks long
- Exceptional academic track record from both high school and university or a compelling narrative about an alternative chosen path
- Undergraduate degree in a technical subject or a compelling narrative about your alternative chosen path
- Experience leading multiple teams of engineers, ranging from graduates to seniors
- Experience developing and evangelizing engineering practices and processes in teams
- Experience developing and managing product development roadmaps
- Experience collaborating with stakeholders and product users
- Ability to develop and mentor engineering managers to maintain Canonical culture in their teams
- Experience expanding teams by hiring great talent
- Experience collaborating as part of a leadership team
- Experience with performance engineering and DevOps SRE (Nice-to-have)
- Experience with accounting, sales, sales operations, or other business roles (Nice-to-have)
Benefits & Perks
Annual compensation review
Performance-driven annual bonus or commission
Distributed work environment with twice-yearly team sprints in person
Personal learning and development budget of USD 2,000 per year
Recognition rewards
Annual holiday leave
Maternity and paternity leave
Employee Assistance Program
Opportunity to travel to new locations to meet colleagues
Priority Pass, and travel upgrades for long haul company events
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