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Job Description
The Engineering Director at Canonical is a senior leadership role responsible for overseeing multiple engineering teams across various domains, driving technical excellence, managing talent, and ensuring the successful delivery of open source software products in a remote, global environment.
Key Responsibilities
- Lead multiple engineering teams and develop engineering managers
- Hire, coach, mentor, and provide career development for engineers
- Set high standards for code quality, performance, and work ethic
- Implement and defend disciplined engineering processes
- Measure and improve team health, productivity, and delivery quality
- Ensure timely delivery of projects, including community participation and documentation
- Represent products to stakeholders, partners, and customers
- Plan, manage, and track progress on goals and projects
- Collaborate with other product leads and leadership team
Requirements
- Passion and confidence to run a project which spans teams and time zones, hiring and managing engineering managers and staff engineers.
- Ability to lead multiple teams of engineers, ranging from graduate to senior levels.
- Experience developing your engineering managers and maintaining Canonical culture.
- Experience hiring staff level engineers for specific roles like performance and quality.
- Ability to coach, mentor, and offer career development feedback to team members.
- Experience identifying and measuring indicators of team health and productivity.
- Ability to ensure rounded delivery including community participation and documentation.
- Implement disciplined engineering processes and defend them.
- Set and measure progress against benchmark goals for speed and efficiency.
- Represent your product to stakeholders, partners, and customers.
- Develop and evangelise great engineering and organisational practices.
- Plan and manage progress on agreed goals and projects.
- Be an active part of the leadership team, collaborating with other leaders.
- Collaborate with leads for related or dependent products.
- Hold an exceptional academic track record from high school and university, or a compelling narrative about an alternative path.
- Possess an undergraduate degree in Computer Science or STEM, or demonstrate relevant experience if alternative path is taken.
- Have extensive management experience and confidence to set high expectations.
- Have an outstanding Linux-based software engineering track record.
- Demonstrate drive and a track record of going above-and-beyond expectations.
- Possess excellent verbal and written communication skills in English, including public speaking and presentation skills.
- Have a love of developing and growing people with a proven track record of doing so.
- Experience in leading, coaching, and mentoring software developers.
- Be organised and able to ensure your team delivers timely, high-quality results.
- Be well-organised, self-starting, and able to deliver to schedule.
- Maintain a professional manner when interacting with colleagues, partners, and community.
- Have advanced expertise in your own domain of software engineering.
- Be knowledgeable and passionate about software development.
- Have solid experience working in an agile development environment.
- Demonstrate a drive for continual learning.
- Build trust, relationships, and confidence within teams and stakeholders.
- Be result-oriented, with a personal drive to meet commitments.
- Be able to travel twice a year for company events, for up to two weeks each time.
Benefits & Perks
Annual compensation review
Performance-driven annual bonus
Additional benefits reflecting company values and local needs
Distributed work environment with twice-yearly in-person team sprints
Personal learning and development budget of USD 2,000 per year
Recognition rewards
Annual holiday leave
Maternity and paternity leave
Employee Assistance Programme
Opportunity to travel to new locations to meet colleagues
Priority Pass and travel upgrades for long haul company events
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