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Engineering Manager - Ubuntu Core

Canonical Jeddah, Saudi Arabia Posted: 17 Apr 2025

Financial

  • Estimate: $90k - $130k*
  • Zero income tax location

Accessibility

  • Fully Remote
  • Apply from abroad
  • Visa Provided

Requirements

  • Experience: Senior
  • English: Professional

Position

Redefine the embedded Linux experience with the smallest, most secure, and most reliable operating system in the IoT market. This is an opportunity for a technical engineering manager passionate about open source software, Linux, containers, security, and the developer experience, to shape the future of Linux from the smallest systems up to desktops. This challenging role demands a high degree of technical and management skill.

Our mission is to enable everyone to build robust solutions in various fields including but not limited to IoT, automotive, and aviation using the next generation secure embedded Linux operating system in a simple solution. We define a reliable and secure set of device recovery mechanisms that enable device manufacturers to simplify and standardise their field operations for fleets of heterogeneous appliances.

As an engineering manager, you'll lead a team of strong software developers to design and implement Ubuntu Core system software on various CPU architectures, such as ARM, RISC-V, and X86. You will meet stakeholders, prioritize requests, plan the roadmap, and ensure the team can deliver their goals. You will have the opportunity to influence the culture, facilitate technical delivery, and work with your team on strategy and execution.

Key Responsibilities:

  • Build and lead a distributed team of engineers through hiring, coaching, mentoring, feedback, and hands-on career development.
  • Demonstrate sound engineering principles by directly contributing to your team's goals.
  • Support timely delivery of technical solutions to address business needs.
  • Effectively set and manage expectations with other engineering teams, senior management, and external stakeholders.
  • Advocate and advance modern, agile software development practices and help develop and evangelize great engineering and organizational practices.
  • Grow a healthy, collaborative engineering culture in line with the company values.
  • Be an active part of the leadership team and collaborate with other leaders in the organization.

Who You Are:

  • You love technology and working with brilliant people.
  • You are curious, flexible, articulate, and accountable.
  • You love developing and growing people and have a track record of doing it.
  • You are knowledgeable and passionate about software development.
  • You have experience in leading, managing, coaching, and mentoring software developers.
  • You are comfortable planning and executing to deliver timely, high-quality software.
  • You have solid experience working in an agile development environment.
  • You possess a Bachelor’s or equivalent in Computer Science, STEM, or a similar degree.
  • You have experience with embedded software.
  • You are proficient in Golang, C/C++, and Shell.
  • You have a solid understanding of Linux and a modern GNU/Linux distribution (Debian or Ubuntu preferred).

We are proud to foster a workplace free from discrimination. Diversity of experience, perspectives, and backgrounds creates a better work environment and better products. Whatever your identity, we will give your application fair consideration.

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