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Job Description
The Engineering Director at Canonical is responsible for leading multiple engineering teams across various domains, setting strategic direction, mentoring managers, and ensuring high-quality, efficient software development in a remote, global environment.
Key Responsibilities
- Lead multiple engineering teams and develop engineering managers
- Hire, coach, mentor, and provide career development for engineers
- Ensure high-quality and timely delivery of projects and products
- Implement and uphold disciplined engineering processes
- Set and track progress against goals for speed, quality, and efficiency
- Represent products to stakeholders, partners, and customers
- Collaborate with other product leads and leadership team
- Develop and promote best engineering and organizational practices
- Drive testing, benchmarking, and quality improvements
- Maintain team health and productivity metrics
Requirements
- Passion and confidence to run a project which spans teams and time zones, including 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 such as performance and quality.
- Ability to coach, mentor, and offer career development feedback to team members.
- Skill in identifying and measuring indicators of team health and productivity.
- Experience ensuring rounded delivery including community participation and documentation.
- Ability to implement disciplined engineering processes and defend them.
- Experience setting and measuring progress against benchmark goals for speed and efficiency.
- Ability to represent your product to stakeholders, partners, and customers.
- Experience developing and evangelising great engineering and organisational practices.
- Proven ability to plan and manage progress on agreed goals and projects.
- Active participation as part of the leadership team, collaborating with other leaders.
- Experience collaborating with leads for related or dependent products.
- An exceptional academic track record from both high school and university.
- Undergraduate degree in Computer Science or STEM, or a compelling narrative about an alternative path.
- Extensive management experience with confidence to set high expectations.
- Outstanding Linux-based software engineering track record.
- Drive and a track record of going above-and-beyond expectations.
- Excellent verbal and written communication skills in English.
- Public speaking and presentation skills.
- Experience in leading, coaching, and mentoring software developers.
- Organisational skills to ensure your team delivers timely, high-quality results.
- Self-starting and well-organised, able to deliver to schedule.
- Professional manner when interacting with colleagues, partners, and community.
- Advanced expertise in your own domain of software development.
- Knowledge and passion for software development.
- Solid experience working in an agile development environment.
- Demonstrated drive for continual learning.
- Ability to build trust, relationships, and confidence.
- Result-oriented with a personal drive to meet commitments.
- Willingness and ability to travel twice a year for up to two weeks each.
- Experience in a developer advocacy or community role (valued but not mandatory).
- Open source community engagement and leadership (valued but not mandatory).
- Ops and system administration experience (valued but not mandatory).
- Performance engineering and security experience (valued but not mandatory).
Benefits & Perks
Annual performance-driven bonus
Additional benefits reflecting company values and local needs
Distributed work environment with in-person team sprints twice a year
Personal learning and development budget of USD 2,000 per year
Annual compensation review
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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