Vacancies at Canonical

What you'll do

• Lead and develop a team of engineers, ranging from graduate to senior
• Represent your team to partners, product stakeholders and customers
• Collaborate proactively with a globally distributed organisation
• Develop and evangelise great engineering and organisational practices
• Coach, mentor, and offer career development feedback
• Implement disciplined engineering processes
• Plan and manage progress on agreed goals and projects
• Be an active part of the leadership team, collaborating with other leaders
• Collaborate with other teams at Canonical to ensure alignment on product architecture and roadmaps
• Design and integrate new features and platform optimisations

What we're looking for in you

• Experience with Linux packaging (Debian, RPM, Yocto)
• Experience working with Python, C, C++
• Experience with IoT / Embedded devices from boot loaders and BSP enablement including hardware accelerators
• Experience managing software engineers with a track record of planning, delivery and quality
• 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
• Well-organised, self-starting and able to ensure your team delivers to schedule
• Professional manner interacting with colleagues, partners, and community
• Experience working with customers, going beyond resolving their technical issues, to interpreting their business challenges and effectively communicating how your solution will meet their needs
• High-quality, well-designed and well-documented software experience
• Builds trust, relationships and confidence
• Solid experience working in an agile development environment
• Ability to travel twice a year, for company events up to two weeks each

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What you'll do

• Collaborate proactively with a distributed team
• Write high quality code to create new features
• Debug issues and produce high quality code to fix them
• Review code produced by other engineers
• Discuss ideas and collaborate on finding good solutions
• Ensure the success of OpenStack and Ceph on multiple architectures
• Work from home with global travel 2 to 4 weeks for internal and external events

Who you are

• You love technology and working with brilliant people
• You are curious, flexible, articulate, and accountable
• You value soft skills and are passionate, enterprising, thoughtful, and self-motivated
• You have a Bachelor's or equivalent in Computer Science, STEM or similar degree
• You have experience with Python
• You have interest and experience with two or more of the following:Ubuntu Linux - kernel or userspace, Kubernetes, OpenStack, Ceph, AI/ML, QEMU/KVM, LXC/LXD, Python, Go, C, Postgresql, Mongo, Debian packaging, scalable web services
• You have experience with non-x86 architectures, including s390, arm64, power and others
• You have experience with OpenStack, OVN, Openvswitch and other related cloud technologies