Canonical - Engineering Manager - Distributed Systems, Python / Go
Requirements
• An exceptional academic track record from both high school and university • Experience in leading, coaching, and mentoring software engineers • Professional software engineering experience with Python or Go • Expertise in distributed systems, cloud infrastructure, quality engineering, or a closely related domain • Strong knowledge of modern software testing processes, strategies, and automation • Experience with Linux (Debian or Ubuntu preferred) • Strong technical judgement and the ability to engage meaningfully in code reviews, architecture discussions, and software design • Experience working in an agile development environment with the ability to organize a team to deliver high-quality results • Professional written and spoken English with excellent communication and presentation skills • Great interpersonal skills, curiosity, flexibility, and accountability, demonstrating passion, thoughtfulness, and self-motivation • Ability to travel twice a year, for company events up to two weeks each • Cloud technologies such as Kubernetes, OpenStack, Juju, Terraform, AWS, Google Cloud, or Azure • Designing testing strategies for distributed or cloud-native systems • Building or operating large-scale CI/CD and test infrastructure • Deploying, operating, or debugging distributed systems • Leading globally distributed teams
Responsibilities
• Lead, coach, and develop a high-performing team of software and quality engineers, ranging from graduate to senior level • Set clear expectations, strengthen engineering practices, and ensure timely delivery against agreed goals • Partner with senior engineers to shape technical strategy, architecture, roadmap, and engineering standards • Guide the development of automated testing infrastructure for the reliability, interoperability, and resilience of distributed systems • Improve CI pipelines, testing tools, and reporting used to validate Canonical's products and solutions across bare-metal, private and public cloud environments • Enable engineering teams across Canonical to adopt effective distributed-systems testing practices and tooling • Contribute technical leadership through design and code reviews, debugging, and hands-on engineering where appropriate • Represent the team with stakeholders and collaborate across Canonical on quality engineering, infrastructure, and developer experience
Benefits
• We consider geographical location, experience, and performance in shaping compensation worldwide. We revisit compensation annually, and more often for graduates and associates, to ensure we recognize outstanding performance. In addition to base pay, we offer a performance-driven annual bonus. • We provide all team members with additional benefits that reflect our values and ideals. We balance our programmes to meet local needs and ensure fairness globally. • Distributed work environment with twice-yearly team sprints in person • 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 and wellness support • Opportunity to travel to new locations to meet colleagues • Priority Pass and travel upgrades for long-haul company events • Canonical is a pioneering tech firm at the forefront of the global move to open source. As the company that publishes Ubuntu, one of the most important open source projects and a leading platform for AI, IoT, and the cloud, we are changing the world of software. • We recruit globally and set a very high standard for people joining the company. We expect excellence; to succeed, we need to be the best at what we do. Most colleagues at Canonical have worked from home since our inception in 2004. Working here is a step into the future and will challenge you to think differently, work smarter, learn new skills, and raise your game.
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