Engineering Manager - Python and K8s
CanonicalRemote
Full Time
Posted December 1, 2025
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Job Description
The role involves leading a team of engineers to productize business workloads on Kubernetes, driving modern software development practices, and fostering a collaborative engineering culture within a remote environment at Canonical.
Key Responsibilities
- Lead a team focused on productising business workloads on Kubernetes
- Build and manage a regional engineering team
- Develop team through coaching, mentoring, and feedback
- Contribute to team goals through direct engineering work
- Set schedules and manage expectations with stakeholders
- Advance modern, agile software development practices
- Maintain a culture of quality and engineering excellence
- Collaborate with leadership and other teams within the organization
Requirements
- Technical leadership experience and a background in software engineering are prerequisites for this role.
- Experience in Docker and Kubernetes operations.
- Proven Python experience in a software engineering context.
- Experience developing Python frameworks and understanding the importance of stable consumable APIs.
- Experience working in an agile development environment.
- Ability to lead, challenge, and develop strong engineers, positively influence the culture, facilitate technical delivery, and work with your team on strategy and execution.
- Ability to build and manage a regional team of engineers.
- Experience in developing and growing people through coaching, mentoring, and feedback.
- Ability to set reasonable schedules based on considered estimates, with feedback loops for improvement.
- Ability to set and manage expectations with other engineering teams and external stakeholders.
- Demonstrated commitment to sound software architecture, software quality, testing, and documentation.
- Willingness to work from home with the ability to travel up to 20% for internal and external events.
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
Team Member Assistance Program
Wellness Platform
Opportunity to travel to new locations to meet colleagues
Priority Pass and travel upgrades for long-haul company events
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