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Job Description
Canonical is seeking engineering leaders to oversee the development and quality of Ubuntu, focusing on building high-performance, resilient 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 performance, quality, and resilience in software development.
- Design, build, and ship high-quality, performant software using languages like Rust, Go, and Python.
- Oversee technical architecture, development, and code reviews to demonstrate sound engineering principles.
- Plan, estimate, and execute engineering work streams in collaboration with product management.
- Define the technical roadmap and contribute to upstream and neighboring open source projects.
- Mentor and coach engineers, providing technical feedback and supporting career development.
- Collaborate with stakeholders, including other engineering teams and management, to set expectations and strategy.
- Contribute to community documentation and improve open source project contributions.
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.
- Based on the first round of interviews, the candidate will be identified for specific teams and conduct second-round interviews with those teams.
- 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.
- Authoring and improving technical and community documentation.
- An exceptional academic track record from both high school and university.
- An undergraduate degree in Computer Science or STEM, or a compelling narrative about an 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.
Benefits & Perks
Annual compensation review
Performance-driven annual bonus
Recognition rewards
Distributed work environment with twice-yearly team sprints in person
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 to meet colleagues
Priority Pass, and travel upgrades for long haul company events
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