Engineering Manager - Public Cloud, Python, Golang
CanonicalRemote
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Posted January 20, 2026
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Job Description
An Engineering Manager at Canonical leads a team responsible for optimizing Ubuntu images for cloud partners, ensuring high performance, security, and automation across various workloads, while also mentoring engineers and contributing to technical strategy and delivery.
Key Responsibilities
- Lead and build a team of engineers, fostering talent development through coaching and mentoring
- Demonstrate technical leadership by contributing to software development, code reviews, and architectural decisions
- Manage team expectations and collaborate with other engineering teams, management, and external stakeholders
- Ensure the delivery of high-quality, reliable, and automated Ubuntu image products for cloud workloads
- Promote a healthy, collaborative engineering culture aligned with company values
- Engage with internal teams, open source community, and commercial partners to support project goals
- Contribute to strategy and execution planning within the team and organization
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 proven track record of doing so.
- Possess knowledge and passion about software development.
- Focus 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.
- Possess 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 the possibility of working from home
Twice-yearly in-person team sprints at interesting locations around the world
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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