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Engineering Manager - Ubuntu Security
Canonical
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Key highlights
- Role directly impacts the safety of millions of Ubuntu users worldwide
- Requires solid software development background and expertise in security
- Offers a personal learning budget of USD 2,000 per year
- Includes a performance‑driven annual bonus and annual compensation review
- Requires travel twice a year for company events up to two weeks each
- Provides a distributed work environment with in‑person team sprints
Role overview
The Security Engineering Manager leads a team of engineers at Canonical to protect Ubuntu and the wider open-source ecosystem from emerging threats, manage vulnerability remediation, and coordinate with upstream projects and customers. The role blends technical leadership, talent development, and cross‑team collaboration to ensure robust security practices and continuous improvement of Canonical’s products.
Responsibilities
- Lead and develop a team of engineers, ranging from graduate to senior
- Provide technical guidance on vulnerability remediation
- Drive the development of new security engineering projects
- Work with upstream open source projects on vulnerability lifecycle handling
- Coach, mentor, and offer career development feedback
- Identify and measure team health indicators
- Implement disciplined engineering processes
- Represent your team and product to stakeholders, partners, and customers
- Develop and evangelise great engineering and organisational practices
- Plan and manage progress on agreed goals and projects
- Be an active part of the security engineering leadership team, collaborating with other leaders
- Respond to emerging threats and secure the open‑source ecosystem for community and enterprise use
- Engage directly with our community and customers, as well as coordinate efforts across multiple engineering teams and projects
Requirements
- 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
- Drive, and a track record of going above-and-beyond expectations
- Excellent verbal and written communication skills in English
- A love of developing and growing people and a track record of it
- Organised and able to ensure your team delivers timely, high quality results
- Professional manner interacting with colleagues, partners, and community
- Solid background in software development, including expertise in support and maintenance
- Mastery in any programming language (Go, Java, C, Python, ... )
- Knowledgeable and passionate about software and application security
- Solid experience working in an agile development environment
- A demonstrated drive for continual learning
- Builds trust, relationships and confidence
- Result‑oriented, with a personal drive to meet commitments
- Ability to travel twice a year, for company events up to two weeks each
Nice to have
- Strong technical understanding of the inner‑workings of Linux distributions (ideally Ubuntu or Debian)
Benefits
- Compensation structured worldwide based on location, experience and performance, with annual reviews
- Performance‑driven annual bonus
- Distributed work environment with twice‑yearly in‑person team sprints
- Personal learning and development budget of USD 2,000 per year
- Annual holiday leave
- Maternity and paternity leave
- Employee Assistance Programme
- Priority Pass and travel upgrades for long haul company events
- Opportunity to travel to new locations to meet colleagues
Additional details
- As the most widely used Linux distribution, Ubuntu underpins the security of the entire internet.
- The role of Security Engineering Manager directly impacts the safety and security of millions of users worldwide.
- Join a team of security experts dedicated to protecting the open‑source ecosystem and driving innovation.
- Canonical is a pioneering tech firm at the forefront of the global move to open source.
- Canonical has been a remote‑first company since its inception in 2004.
- We recruit on a global basis and set a very high standard for people joining the company.
- We expect excellence – in order to succeed, we need to be the best at what we do.
- Canonical is an equal opportunity employer and fosters a workplace free from discrimination.