Ubuntu Engineering Lead
Canonical
WorldwideremotePosted 18 days ago
Skill Required
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Key highlights
- Remote roles available in every time zone
- USD 2,000 annual personal learning and development budget
- Performance-driven annual bonus included
- Ability to travel twice a year for up to two weeks each required
- Exceptional academic track record from high school and university required
- Technical leadership experience and software engineering background required
Role overview
Canonical is a leading provider of open source software and operating systems to the global enterprise and technology markets, famously known for the Ubuntu platform used in cloud, data science, AI, and IoT. The company is a pioneer of global distributed collaboration with over 1,200 colleagues in more than 75 countries, operating as a founder-led, profitable, and growing remote-first organization. We are hiring engineering leaders for the Ubuntu Engineering organization who care deeply about software quality, performance, and resilience. This leadership track includes roles for both managers and Senior+ engineers, focusing on building, nurturing, and developing high-performing teams while staying technical and close to the code.
Responsibilities
- Stay technical and close to the code
- Lead and develop software projects, as well as the processes and people around them
- Accountable for your technical roadmap
- Responsible for your team: helping them grow as engineers, do important and satisfying work, and have a great time while doing it
- Lead, challenge, and develop strong engineers
- Positively influence the culture
- Facilitate technical delivery
- Work with your team on strategy and execution
- Engage with and contribute to the broader open source community
- Build a thriving community and contribute with enthusiasm and precision to a broad range of technologies
- Leading their teams in elevating the Linux developer and user experience
- 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
- 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
- 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
Requirements
- Technical leadership experience
- Background in software engineering
- 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
Nice to have
- Experience contributing to or leading open source projects
- Experience with Linux distributions/distribution engineering
- Experience with software packaging and distribution mechanisms
- Performance or Security Engineering experience
Benefits
- Performance-driven annual bonus
- 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
- Opportunity to travel to new locations to meet colleagues
- Priority Pass, and travel upgrades for long haul company events
Additional details
- This leadership track includes roles for managers and Senior+ engineers alike
- Ubuntu is not just the world’s most deployed open source operating system, it's a platform that enables innovation for millions of users across the globe
- Our community represents the full breadth of the developer experience; from students, hobbyists and freelancers to high performance engineering and creative teams in corporate and academic environments
- Teams meet two to four times yearly in person, in interesting locations around the world, to align on strategy and execution
- The four key teams that ship Ubuntu are: Foundations (maintaining foundational software: architectures, package managers, compilers, toolchains, bootloaders, filesystems and core utilities); Server (leading the design, evolution and future of our Ubuntu Server distribution); Desktop (driving Ubuntu Desktop, our future immutable desktop: Ubuntu Core Desktop, WSL, gaming technology, and a suite of modern applications for the desktop crafted with Flutter); Debcrafters (a new team responsible for the forward movement, maintenance and overall health of the Ubuntu archive)
- Location: We have remote roles open in every time zone
- Based on the first round of interviews, we identify specific teams where you might be an excellent fit and conduct second-round interviews with those teams
- 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
- We provide all team members with additional benefits, which reflect our values and ideals. We balance our programs to meet local needs and ensure fairness globally
- 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 the platform for AI, IoT and the cloud, we are changing the world on a daily basis
- 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 has been a remote-first company since its inception in 2004
- Canonical is an equal opportunity employer. We are proud to foster a workplace free from discrimination. Diversity of experience, perspectives, and background create a better work environment and better products. Whatever your identity, we will give your application fair consideration
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