Drive the future of collaborative open-source development tooling as part of the Launchpad team at Canonical. This is an opportunity for a motivated engineering manager passionate about 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 support your team by ensuring their growth as engineers, value in their work, and overall job satisfaction. We are looking for technical leadership with a solid background in software development to challenge and grow your team members. You will have the opportunity to influence company culture, facilitate technical delivery, and work with your team on strategy and execution.
What You'll Do:
- 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 for software like Ubuntu.
- Advocate and advance modern, agile software development practices and help develop and evangelize great engineering and organizational practices.
- Grow a healthy, collaborative engineering culture aligned with company values.
- Actively engage with the broader leadership team.
- Work from home with the possibility of international travel up to 6 weeks per year for internal and external events.
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 about technology and dedicated to delivering high-quality software.
- Experienced in designing and evolving complex distributed systems.
- Possess effective written and verbal communication skills.
- Solid experience working in an agile development environment.
Canonical is proud to foster a workplace free from discrimination and believes that diversity of experience, perspectives, and backgrounds leads to a better environment for employees and a better platform for users and customers.
