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Support Engineering Manager

Canonical
Remote
Full Time
Posted September 18, 2025
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Job Description

This role involves managing support teams that provide technical assistance for Canonical's open source products, ensuring customer satisfaction, technical excellence, and continuous process improvement in a fast-paced, remote work environment.

Key Responsibilities

  • Manage and develop a professional support team, including skills development and performance management
  • Oversee operational control, shift scheduling, and monitor key performance indicators (KPIs)
  • Ensure timely and professional response to all customer cases within SLA
  • Act as the escalation point for customer issues and address escalations appropriately
  • Maintain and improve customer satisfaction levels
  • Contribute to the support knowledge base and improve support processes
  • Hire, train, and develop support team members to meet business needs
  • Collaborate with leadership to drive growth and transformation initiatives

Requirements

  • Extensive CLI experience with Linux at a technical level
  • Support, Development, Implementation Leadership experience, and preferably team management experience
  • Confidence under pressure, with proven track record of high customer focus
  • Preferably fluent in two languages, English being primary one
  • Excellent communication skills verbal and written
  • Experience or knowledge of Linux Desktop, OpenStack, Public Cloud or Virtualization technologies
  • Proven track record of contributing to Open Source projects
  • Software development experience
  • Experience in working in support organizations
  • Hands on experience with Canonical s products

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 the opportunity for 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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