About the Job:
The company is a leading provider of open-source software and operating systems to the global enterprise and technology markets. Our platform, Ubuntu, is extensively used in innovative enterprise initiatives such as public cloud, data science, AI, engineering innovation, and IoT. Our customers include top public cloud and silicon providers and industry leaders across various sectors. The company is known for its global distributed collaboration, with over 1,200 colleagues in more than 75 countries and minimal office-based roles. The company is founder-led, profitable, and rapidly growing.
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We are seeking an Engineering Manager to join the BootStack team, which designs, builds, and operates modern distributed systems on private infrastructure for customers. In this role, you will manage engineers who oversee day-to-day Managed Services of customer environments. This includes customer service management, managed services operations, and ongoing product improvement engineering. Collaboration with customers, product engineering, and operations is vital for success.
Key Responsibilities:
- Manage a growing engineering team to optimize development and operations quality and velocity.
- Identify and measure team health indicators.
- Implement disciplined engineering and operations processes.
- Represent the BootStack team with stakeholders, customers, and external teams.
- Ensure focus on priorities, milestones, and deliverables.
- Work to meet service level agreements with global customer deployments.
- Deliver quality managed services consistently and timely.
Required Qualifications:
- Bachelor’s (or equivalent) education in a technology field.
- Proven experience in software delivery using Python, Go, C, C++, Java, or similar languages, and/or managing operations teams.
- Proven experience with OpenStack.
- Strong commitment to testing methodologies and maintainable code quality.
- Experience with Linux system administration (Ubuntu/Debian preferred).
- Excellent communication and cooperation skills.
- Experience with agile software development methodologies.
- Experience working in and managing distributed teams.
- Technical aptitude for complex distributed systems understanding.
- Familiarity with cloud topologies and technologies.
- Ability and willingness to travel to team/company events and customer meetings (approximately 20% or less).
Work Conditions:
- Globally remote role with twice-yearly in-person team sprints.
- Opportunities for travel to new locations for team meetings.
Benefits:
- Performance-driven annual bonus or commission.
- Personal learning and development budget of USD 2,000 per year.
- Annual compensation review.
- Recognition rewards.
- Annual holiday leave.
- Maternity and paternity leave.
- Team Member Assistance Program and Wellness Platform.
- Priority Pass and travel upgrades for long-haul company events.
Language Requirements:
- Strong communication skills in English are expected.
Equal Opportunity Employer:
The company is committed to creating a diverse environment and is proud to be an equal opportunity employer. We consider all applicants fairly, regardless of identity or background.
