Software Engineering Manager Backend SaaS
CanonicalRemote
Full Time
Posted December 1, 2025
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Job Description
An engineering manager role responsible for leading the development and growth of Canonical's Landscape systems management solution for Ubuntu, focusing on large-scale estate management, team leadership, technical innovation, and collaboration within a distributed, open-source environment.
Key Responsibilities
- Build and lead a team of engineers, focusing on talent development and coaching
- Demonstrate sound engineering principles and contribute to team goals
- Set and manage expectations with other teams, management, and stakeholders
- Lead modern, agile software development practices
- Ensure a healthy, collaborative engineering culture aligned with company values
- Build automated, reliable pipelines for image delivery, testing, and publication
- Engage with internal teams, open source community, and commercial partners
- Contribute technically through code reviews and architectural leadership
- Maintain high standards for engineering practices, documentation, quality, and performance
Requirements
- Technical leadership experience and a background in software engineering are necessary prerequisites for this role.
- Ability to lead, challenge, and develop strong engineers, positively influence the culture, facilitate technical delivery, and work with your team on strategy and execution.
- Fluency in Python and Golang, including understanding of architecture and components used in these languages.
- Experience with code reviews and architectural leadership.
- Commitment to healthy engineering practices, documentation, quality, and performance optimization.
- Ability to build and lead a team of engineers in your region.
- Experience in developing 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 the ability to travel globally for 4-6 weeks per year for internal and external events.
- A Bachelor’s or equivalent degree in Computer Science, STEM, or a similar field.
- Software development experience in Python or Golang.
- Effective written and verbal communication skills.
- Practical experience with Linux system administration.
Benefits & Perks
Distributed work environment with twice-yearly team sprints in person
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
Priority Pass and travel upgrades for long-haul company events
Compensation/salary range is considered and revisited annually and more often for graduates and associates
Work from home with global travel 4-6 weeks per year for internal and external events
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