Engineering Director - Commercial Systems
Canonical
WorldwideremotePosted 8 days ago
Skill Required
Engineering-ManagementDirector-of-EngineeringSoftware-Engineering-ManagementCommercial-EngineeringBackend-DevelopmentEngineeringsoftware engineeringsecuritywrittenPythonGolangDevOpsLinuxCloudDesign PatternsJavaUnityandAIFulltime
Key highlights
- Remote EMEA role
- Leadership of three engineering teams (Billing, Contracts, Livepatch)
- USD 2,000 annual personal learning and development budget
- Twice-yearly international team sprints (2 weeks long)
- Performance-driven annual bonus or commission
- Engineering Manager, Senior Engineer, or similar leadership track
Role overview
Canonical is a leading open-source software provider for global enterprise and technology markets, famous for Ubuntu. The company operates as a pioneer in global distributed collaboration with 1200+ colleagues across more than 80 countries and minimal office-based roles. The Engineering Director role oversees the Commercial Systems unit—three engineering teams serving as the heart of Canonical's business—including the Billing team (Golang service for billing metrics), Contracts team (Golang service for CPQ and contract management), and Livepatch team (security patch delivery for Linux kernel vulnerabilities). The role is based remotely in the EMEA region and involves leading multiple teams, developing engineering managers, setting performance standards, and collaborating with cross-functional leaders. Canonical is founder-led, profitable, and growing.
Responsibilities
- Leading multiple teams of engineers, ranging from graduates to seniors
- Developing your engineering managers to maintain Canonical culture in their teams
- Developing and evangelize great engineering practices and processes in the teams
- Setting and implementing solid performance management with performance goals and objectives with your direct reports and teams
- Identifying and measuring indicators of team health, and take action where needed
- Being accountable for the product development roadmaps in the teams
- Being an active part of the Commercial Systems leadership team, collaborating with other leaders
- Expanding your teams by hiring great talent
- Collaborating with stakeholders and product users
Requirements
- Exceptional academic track record from both high school and university
- Undergraduate degree in a technical subject or a compelling narrative about your alternative chosen path
- Proven ability to drive multiple teams or large teams of software engineers to deliver outstanding results
- Engineering experience in at least one of the following areas: Golang, Python, Java, or distributed integrations
- Track record of going above-and-beyond expectations to achieve outstanding results
- Professional written and spoken English with excellent presentation skills
- Result-oriented, with a personal drive to meet commitments
- Ability to travel internationally twice a year, for company events up to two weeks long
Nice to have
- Performance engineering and DevOps/SRE experience
- Experience with accounting, sales, sales operations, or other business roles
Benefits
- 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 Program
- Opportunity to travel to new locations to meet colleagues
- Priority Pass, and travel upgrades for long haul company events
Additional details
- The Billing team designs, develops, and operates a Golang service that provides a standardized and scalable capability to turn metrics into billable amounts, enable customers to see their current spend with Canonical at any time, and ensure accurate, reliable, and timely billing. The service further integrates with other engineering, business and payment systems.
- The Contracts team designs, develops, and operates a Golang service that will become the single source of truth for all contracts with all customers. The service provides a standardized CPQ capability and stores signed contracts in a structured format. The service further integrates with other engineering and business systems including a CRM system and an accounting system.
- The Livepatch team designs and develops a service for the delivery of Linux kernel patches to shrink the exploit window for critical and high severity Linux kernel vulnerabilities, by patching the Linux kernel between security maintenance windows, while the system runs. The engineering team behind this product develops Golang based client and backend components, while another Canonical team, the Kernel team, develops the security patches.
- Canonical is founder led, profitable and growing.
- Most colleagues at Canonical have worked from home since its inception in 2004.