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Job Description
Canonical is seeking engineering leaders to oversee and develop high-performing teams working on Ubuntu, focusing on building high-quality, performance-oriented open source software across various key areas such as server, desktop, and core utilities, while contributing to the broader open source community.
Key Responsibilities
- Lead and develop engineering teams to ensure high-quality, performant software development in Rust, Go, and Python
- Design, build, and ship software while demonstrating sound engineering principles through architecture, development, and code reviews
- Plan, estimate, and execute technical projects aligned with the team's roadmap
- Collaborate with product management to define the vision and strategy for Ubuntu
- Coordinate expectations and communication with other engineering teams, management, and external stakeholders
- Mentor, coach, and provide technical feedback to team members to foster growth and development
- Contribute to upstream and related open source projects
- Optimize the distribution for performance, reliability, and security
- Debug complex system-level issues and implement robust solutions
- Author and improve technical and community documentation
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.
- Designing, building and shipping high quality, performant software in Rust, Go and Python.
- Demonstrating sound engineering principles through architecture, development and code reviews.
- Taking responsibility for planning, estimation and execution of technical work streams.
- Working with product management to define the vision and strategy for Ubuntu.
- Setting expectations with other engineering teams, senior management, and external stakeholders.
- Offering coaching, mentoring, technical feedback and hands-on career development to team members.
- Contributing to upstream and neighboring open source projects.
- Optimizing the distribution for performance, reliability, and security.
- Debugging complex system-level issues and delivering robust solutions.
- Authoring and improving technical and community documentation.
- An undergraduate degree in Computer Science or STEM, or a compelling narrative about your alternative path.
- Significant experience with Rust, Go, Python, Flutter or C/C++.
- Professional written and spoken English skills.
- Excellent communication and interpersonal skills.
- Result-oriented with a personal drive to meet commitments.
- Ability to travel twice a year, for company events up to two weeks each.
Benefits & Perks
Annual compensation review
Performance-driven annual bonus
Additional benefits reflecting company values and ideals
Distributed work environment with twice-yearly team sprints in person
Personal learning and development budget of USD 2,000 per year
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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