Engineering Director, Multi-cloud Orchestrator (Golang) at Canonical Ghana

About The Job

• This is an opportunity to lead a globally distributed software engineering team that's building a multi-cloud orchestration engine that's driving software operations at scale around the world. 
• You'll be responsible for the day-to-day leadership of 3 teams spread across the globe, and deliver high quality software written primarily in Go.

Summary:

• As an engineering director at Canonical your primary responsibility is to the teams you support: ensuring that they are continually improving, doing valuable work, and having a great time at Canonical. 
• As a leader of managers and contributors, astute technical leadership and management acumen is a must, so that you're able to challenge and grow your teams. 
• You will have the opportunity to influence the culture, facilitate technical delivery, and work with your teams to hone strategy and execution.

Duties:

• You'll be delivering a large open source Go project that powers complex, highly concurrent distributed software systems across the world, while growing and developing engineers at all levels. We're looking for someone with a proven track record in delivery of quality software over time.
• Technical contribution through code is not expected in this role, but significant past experience with hands-on software development, particularly in Go, is desirable. You will be expected to lead and facilitate technical design and architecture work alongside your senior engineering staff.
• The role is fully remote, with global travel for 4-6 weeks per year to facilitate company events.