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Job Description
Canonical is seeking engineering leaders to oversee the development and maintenance of Ubuntu, focusing on high-quality, performant open source software across various teams, while mentoring engineers and contributing to the broader open source community.
Key Responsibilities
- Lead and develop engineering teams to ensure high-quality, performant software development.
- Design, build, and ship software in Rust, Go, and Python, adhering to sound engineering principles.
- Plan, estimate, and execute technical projects and roadmaps.
- Collaborate with product management to define vision and strategy for Ubuntu.
- Conduct architecture, development, and code reviews to maintain code quality.
- Debug complex system-level issues and implement robust solutions.
- Contribute to upstream and related open source projects.
- Optimize the distribution for performance, reliability, and security.
- Mentor, coach, and provide technical feedback to team members for their growth.
- 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 exceptional academic track record from both high school and university.
- Undergraduate degree in Computer Science or STEM, or a compelling narrative about your alternative path.
- Ability to drive and deliver technical work streams going above and beyond expectations.
- Lead and coach others to deliver exceptional engineering work.
- A demonstrated passion for open source software.
- Significant experience with Rust, Go, Python, Flutter or C/C++.
- Professional written and spoken English.
- 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.
- Experience contributing to or leading open source projects (nice-to-have).
- Experience with Linux distributions and distribution engineering (nice-to-have).
- Experience with software packaging and distribution mechanisms (nice-to-have).
- Performance or Security Engineering experience (nice-to-have).
Benefits & Perks
Compensation/salary range is considered based on location, experience, and performance, with annual reviews and performance-driven bonuses
Distributed work environment with remote roles in every time zone
Twice-yearly in-person team sprints at interesting locations around the world
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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