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Engineering Manager - Public Cloud, Python, Golang

Canonical
Remote
Full Time
Posted September 18, 2025
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Job Description

An Engineering Manager role at Canonical responsible for leading a team that develops and optimizes Ubuntu images for cloud partners, ensuring high performance, security, and automation across various workloads while fostering team growth and collaboration.

Key Responsibilities

  • Lead and develop a team of engineers, providing coaching, mentoring, and career development
  • Demonstrate technical leadership through code reviews, architectural guidance, and ensuring engineering best practices
  • Manage stakeholder expectations and collaborate with other teams, management, and external partners
  • Build and oversee automated, reliable pipelines for image delivery, testing, and publication
  • Contribute to the technical strategy, culture, and delivery of high-quality software products
  • Engage with open source community and external partners to support project goals
  • Ensure team adherence to agile development practices and foster a healthy engineering culture

Requirements

  • 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.
  • Engage with many other teams at Canonical, as well as the open source community and commercial partners.
  • Work from home with global travel up to 15% for internal and external events.
  • Mentor, develop and grow people, with a track record of doing so.
  • Possess knowledge and passion about software development.
  • Be focused on success and the delivery of timely, high quality software.
  • Have experience and commitment to agile development methodologies.
  • Hold a Bachelor’s or equivalent degree in Computer Science, STEM or a similar field.
  • Have software development experience in Python or Golang.
  • Have effective written and verbal communication skills.
  • Have practical experience with at least one of Microsoft Azure, Google Cloud, or AWS.

Benefits & Perks

Compensation is based on geographical location, experience, and performance, with annual reviews and more frequent reviews for graduates and associates
Performance-driven annual bonus or commission
Distributed work environment with twice-yearly in-person team sprints
Personal learning and development budget of USD 2,000 per year
Annual compensation review
Recognition rewards
Annual holiday leave
Maternity and paternity leave
Team Member Assistance Program
Wellness Platform
Opportunity to travel to new locations to meet colleagues
Travel upgrades and Priority Pass for long-haul company events

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