Ubuntu Enablement - Software Engineering Manager

• Recruit, motivate, mentor, and enable your team to succeed in delivering quality products • Set goals with the team; prioritize tasks, identify and measure team health indicators • Maximise the results of team members and support their career growth • Coordinate with project managers, HWE, QA and certification management • Monitor projects from kickoff to post-mortem and handle escalations • Communicate, understand, and resolve the technical challenge with OEMs, ODMs, SiPs, IHVs • Prioritize customer requests globally • Collaborate with product engineering teams (including Desktop, Foundations, Kernel, and Security) • Provide leadership for methodologies, strategies, standards, tools, and best practices • Must be able to travel to the EU, USA, China, and Taiwan; (after covid-19 restrictions lift)

• A Bachelor (or higher) degree in STEM, preferably computer science or software engineering • Proven track record in technical roles with Linux, preferably Ubuntu or Debian • Commitment to development and testing methodologies, and maintainable code quality • Experience with management responsibilities • Ability to work collaboratively in a team environment • Ability to be productive in a globally distributed team through self-discipline and self-motivation • Commitment and energy to deliver on schedule • Strong English and Chinese language communication skills, both written and verbal • Making technical decisions for a team as a tech lead • Software architecture and design experience • Software development or operations experience with: Ubuntu - kernel and userspace, deb/snap packaging, QEMU/KVM, LXC/LXD, Containers, Python, Go, C, bash, Postgresql, Mongo, Kubernetes, OpenStack, Ceph, AI/ML • Participation in open-source development projects • Experience with CI/CD