Canonical is a leading provider of open source software and operating systems to the global enterprise and technology markets.
Our platform, Ubuntu, is widely used in enterprise initiatives across public cloud, data science, AI, engineering innovation, and IoT.
Our customers include leading public cloud and silicon providers, and industry leaders in many sectors.
We operate globally with 1200+ colleagues in 75+ countries and very few office-based roles.
Teams meet two to four times yearly in person to align on strategy and execution.
The company is founder-led, profitable, and growing.
Our mission is to build a next-generation private cloud infrastructure, combining KVM, Ceph, and SDN technologies to create a data center scale cloud that 'just works' and provides a mission-critical cloud for edge and core enterprise deployments.
We are hiring engineering managers with experience in high-quality microservice architectures and high-performance team leadership who also have deep familiarity with Linux kernel, virtualisation, storage and networking.
LXD components span the entire software stack from low-level kernel features to the upper level management API/CLI.
Our engineers are fluent across these layers and consider the consequences of design choices in a complex distributed system.
As an engineering manager at Canonical you must have a solid technical background, and your responsibility is to run an effective team and develop the colleagues you manage.
You are expected to help them grow as engineers, achieve important work, and collaborate well with colleagues and the community.
Technical leadership experience and a software engineering background are prerequisites.
You will lead, challenge, and develop engineers, influence culture, facilitate technical delivery, and work with your team on strategy and execution.
The successful candidate will have experience leading collaborative engineering teams, solve challenging distributed systems problems, and possess deep knowledge of Linux.
This is a remote position available in EMEA and the Americas.
Canonical is a pioneering tech firm at the forefront of open source.
As the company that publishes Ubuntu, we drive the global move to open source and cloud computing.
We recruit on a global basis and aim for excellence in every role.
Most colleagues have worked from home since our inception in 2004.
Canonical is an equal opportunity employer.
We are committed to fostering a workplace free from discrimination.
Diversity of experience, perspectives, and backgrounds enhances our environment and products, and we consider every application fairly.