Drive the future of collaborative open-source development tooling as part of the Launchpad team. This opportunity is for a motivated engineering manager with a passion for open-source software, Linux, and web services to join our distributed team.
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Launchpad is a robust platform for managing open-source development projects, including code hosting and review, bug tracking, package building, translations, and other facilities used by free and open-source software developers. It provides essential development infrastructure for major projects such as Ubuntu.
As an engineering manager at Canonical, your primary responsibility is to the people you support, ensuring that they are growing as engineers, doing valuable work, and generally having a great time at Canonical. You will have the opportunity to influence the culture, facilitate technical delivery, and work with your team 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 toward 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, the infrastructure on which great software like Ubuntu is built.
- Advocate and advance modern, agile software development practices.
- Grow a healthy, collaborative engineering culture in line with the company values.
- Actively engage with the broader leadership team.
Who You Are:
- Experience leading a distributed team to deliver features and manage production services at scale.
- A passion for mentoring, developing, and growing people with a proven track record.
- Knowledgeable and passionate about technology.
- Experience delivering high-quality software.
- Experience designing and evolving complex distributed systems.
- Effective written and verbal communication skills.
- Solid experience working in an agile development environment.
Location: Jiddah, Makkah, Saudi Arabia (Remote)
Work Conditions: Full-time; remote role with international travel up to 6 weeks per year for internal and external events.
Language Requirements: Not specified.
We are proud to foster a workplace free from discrimination and value diversity of experience, perspectives, and background to create a better environment for our employees and a better platform for our users and customers.
