Canonical's Device Delivery Team works with tier-1 OEM and ODM customers to pre-load Ubuntu Desktop and Ubuntu Core, bringing Ubuntu directly to millions of users. As a Software Engineering Manager, you will lead and manage the software engineering team to deliver OEM enablement projects. This fast-paced environment requires excellent time management, deep knowledge of the Linux system, low-level debugging, critical thinking, problem-solving skills, and management ability.
Location: Dubai, Dubai, United Arab Emirates (Remote)
Work Conditions: Full-time, Remote
Key Responsibilities:
- Recruit, motivate, mentor, and enable your team to succeed in delivering quality products.
- Set goals with the team, prioritize tasks, and identify and measure team health indicators.
- Maximize the results of team members and support their career growth.
- Coordinate with project managers, hardware engineering, QA, and certification management.
- Monitor projects from kickoff to post-mortem and handle escalations.
- Communicate and resolve technical challenges with OEMs, ODMs, SiPs, IHVs.
- Prioritize customer requests globally.
- Collaborate with product engineering teams, including Desktop, Foundations, Kernel, and Security.
- Provide leadership for methodologies, strategies, standards, tools, and best practices.
- Must be able to travel to the EU, USA, China, and Taiwan after COVID-19 restrictions are lifted.
Required Skills and Experience:
- A bachelor’s (or higher) degree in STEM, preferably computer science or software engineering.
- Proven track record in technical roles with Linux, preferably Ubuntu or Debian.
- Commitment to development and testing methodologies, and maintainable code quality.
- Experience with management responsibilities.
- Ability to work collaboratively in a team environment.
- Self-discipline and self-motivation to be productive in a globally distributed team.
- Commitment and energy to deliver on schedule.
- Strong English and Chinese language communication skills, both written and verbal.
Desirable Skills and Experience:
- Experience making technical decisions as a tech lead.
- Software architecture and design experience.
- Software development or operations experience with Ubuntu (kernel and userspace), deb/snap packaging, QEMU/KVM, LXC/LXD, Containers, Python, Go, C, bash, PostgreSQL, Mongo, Kubernetes, OpenStack, Ceph, AI/ML.
- Participation in open-source development projects.
- Experience with CI/CD.
Canonical is an equal opportunity employer and is committed to ensuring equal employment opportunities for all qualified individuals. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, gender, gender identity or expression, sexual orientation, national origin, genetics, disability, age, or veteran status.
