Drive the future of collaborative open-source development tooling as part of the Launchpad team. This is an opportunity for a motivated engineering manager with a passion for open-source software, Linux, and web services to join our distributed team. Launchpad is a robust platform for managing open-source development projects, providing essential infrastructure for major projects such as Ubuntu.
As an engineering manager at Canonical, your primary responsibility is to the people you support: ensuring they are growing as engineers, undertaking valuable work, and generally having a great experience at Canonical. You are expected to provide technical leadership, challenge and grow your team members, and facilitate technical delivery while working on strategy and execution.
Key Responsibilities:
- Grow and lead a team of engineers in your region.
- Develop talent through coaching, mentoring, feedback, and hands-on career development.
- Apply sound engineering principles and directly contribute to your team's goals.
- Create and maintain productive relationships with stakeholders.
- Set and manage expectations with other engineering teams, management, and external stakeholders.
- Collaborate proactively with a distributed team and community.
- Lead the ongoing development of Launchpad.
- Advocate for and advance modern, agile software development practices.
- Grow a healthy, collaborative engineering culture in line with company values.
- Actively engage with the broader leadership team.
- Work from home with international travel up to 6 weeks per year for internal and external events.
Who You Are:
- Experienced in leading a distributed team to deliver features and manage production services at scale.
- Passionate about mentoring, developing, and growing people.
- Knowledgeable and passionate about technology.
- Experienced in delivering high-quality software and designing complex distributed systems.
- Possess effective written and verbal communication skills.
- Solid experience working in an agile development environment.
Work Conditions:
- This is a remote role based in the EMEA region. Candidates must be located within this region.
- International travel up to 6 weeks per year is expected.
Canonical fosters a workplace free from discrimination and values diversity of experience, perspectives, and backgrounds.
