Software Engineering Manager - Sustaining Engineering
CanonicalRemote
Full Time
Posted September 18, 2025
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Job Description
An Engineering Manager for Sustaining Engineering at Canonical leads and supports a distributed team responsible for maintaining and improving open source software across various platforms, ensuring timely bug fixes, technical excellence, and fostering a collaborative engineering culture in a remote, globally distributed environment.
Key Responsibilities
- Lead and manage a distributed team of engineers, providing coaching, mentorship, and career development support
- Ensure timely delivery of bug fixes, patches, and technical solutions across various open source software stacks
- Set and manage expectations with internal teams, senior management, and external stakeholders
- Support technical leadership by influencing culture, facilitating delivery, and contributing to strategy and execution
- Maintain high standards of software quality through testing methodologies and maintainable code practices
- Collaborate with other teams within the organization to support business and technical objectives
Requirements
- Technical leadership and a solid background in software development are a must, so that you are able to help your team members grow professionally.
- Professional software delivery experience using C, C++, Go, Python, or similar programming languages.
- Experience with version control systems such as git.
- Experience with debugging tools such as gdb, crash, or other debugging tools.
- Demonstrated strong commitment to testing methodologies and maintainable code quality.
- Experience with Linux, with a preference towards Ubuntu.
- Experience with Open Source and Open Source Business Models.
- People management experience in a support organisation is a strong plus.
- Ability to manage and lead a distributed team of engineers, including hiring, coaching, mentoring, providing feedback, and career development guidance.
- Ability to support timely delivery of bug fixes, patches, and other technical solutions in various technology fields including Ubuntu, OpenStack, Ceph, Kubernetes, Juju, MAAS.
- Excellent communication skills in the English language, both verbal and written.
- Experience with organizing and prioritizing complex problem resolution and bug fixes.
Benefits & Perks
Compensation range varies based on location, experience, and performance, with annual reviews and recognition rewards
Work schedule is flexible with a globally remote role and up to 10% travel for internal and external events
Work environment perks include a distributed work environment, twice-yearly in-person team sprints, and travel upgrades for long-haul company events
Additional benefits include a personal learning and development budget of USD 2,000 per year, annual holiday leave, maternity and paternity leave, Employee Assistance Programme, opportunity to travel to new locations, and a Priority Pass for travel upgrades
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