Engineering Manager - Solutions Engineering
CanonicalRemote
Full Time
Posted December 1, 2025
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Remote
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Job Description
An Engineering Manager role focused on leading and developing a remote team of Python engineers to build and improve open-source automation tools and infrastructure solutions for cloud and enterprise environments, emphasizing technical leadership, agile practices, and collaborative culture.
Key Responsibilities
- Lead and develop a remote team of Python engineers across global locations
- Hire, coach, mentor, and provide career development for team members
- Contribute to code development to demonstrate technical leadership
- Plan and manage progress on engineering goals and projects
- Set and manage expectations with internal teams, stakeholders, and customers
- Advocate for modern, agile software development practices
- Foster a collaborative and high-quality engineering culture
- Collaborate with leadership and other teams to influence organizational direction
- Travel globally up to 10% for internal and external events
Requirements
- Lead and develop a team of Python engineers working remotely in global locations, including hiring, coaching, mentoring, providing feedback, and hands-on career development.
- Demonstrate sound engineering principles by directly contributing code yourself.
- Plan and manage progress on agreed goals and projects.
- Set and manage expectations with other engineering and operations teams.
- Coordinate with management and internal and external stakeholders or customers.
- Advocate for modern, agile software development practices.
- Help develop and evangelize great engineering and organizational practices.
- Grow a healthy, collaborative engineering culture in line with the company values.
- Be an active part of the leadership team and collaborate with other leaders in the organization.
- Travel globally up to 10% of the time for internal and external events.
- Possess a solid background in software development, particularly in Python, to provide technical leadership and challenge team members.
- Have experience in developing and growing people, with a track record of doing so.
- Be knowledgeable and passionate about agile software development.
- Be comfortable administrating Linux servers, including their storage and networking.
- Have hands-on experience with software automation.
- Be organized and committed to delivering high-quality software in a timely manner.
- Possess knowledge of cloud computing concepts and technologies.
- Possess a university degree in Computer Science or a related software engineering field (preferred but not mandatory).
- Have thorough understanding of modern infrastructure, including OpenStack or Kubernetes (preferred but not mandatory).
- Have experience in operations as well as software development (preferred but not mandatory).
- Be familiar with the challenges of large-scale, multi-cloud operations (preferred but not mandatory).
- Have expertise in Go programming language (preferred but not mandatory).
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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