Engineering Director - Commercial Systems
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Job description
Engineering Director at Canonical leading the Commercial Systems unit, overseeing three software engineering teams (Billing, Contracts, Livepatch) that build and operate internal and security software products. The role combines people leadership, engineering practice development, and product roadmap accountability.
At a glance
- Employment
- Full-time
- Work mode
- Remote · EMEA region
- Languages
- English – fluent
What you'll do
- Leading multiple teams of engineers, ranging from graduates to seniors
- Developing engineering managers to maintain Canonical culture in their teams
- Developing and evangelizing great engineering practices and processes in the teams
- Setting and implementing solid performance management with performance goals and objectives with direct reports and teams
- Identifying and measuring indicators of team health, and taking action where needed
- Being accountable for the product development roadmaps in the teams
- Being an active part of the Commercial Systems leadership team, collaborating with other leaders
- Expanding the teams by hiring great talent
- Collaborating with stakeholders and product users
What we're looking for
- Exceptional academic track record from both high school and university
- Undergraduate degree in a technical subject or a compelling narrative about an alternative chosen path
- Proven ability to drive multiple teams or large teams of software engineers to deliver outstanding results
- Engineering experience in at least one of the following areas: Golang, Python, Java, or distributed integrations
- Track record of going above-and-beyond expectations to achieve outstanding results
- Professional written and spoken English with excellent presentation skills
- Result-oriented, with a personal drive to meet commitments
- Ability to travel internationally twice a year, for company events up to two weeks long
Nice to have
- Performance engineering and DevOps/SRE experience
- Experience with accounting, sales, sales operations, or other business roles
Your team
Commercial Systems
Conceived as three engineering teams (Billing, Contracts, Livepatch) that closely collaborate with other engineering and business teams at Canonical; their services are at the heart of Canonical business.
Benefits
- Distributed work environment with twice-yearly team sprints in person
- Personal learning and development budget of USD 2,000 per year
- Annual compensation review
- Recognition rewards
- Annual holiday leave
- Maternity and paternity leave
- Employee Assistance Program
- Opportunity to travel to new locations to meet colleagues
- Priority Pass, and travel upgrades for long haul company events
- Performance-driven annual bonus or commission
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About Canonical
A pioneering tech firm at the forefront of the global move to open source
Canonical is a leading provider of open-source software and operating systems for global enterprise and technology markets. Its platform, Ubuntu, is widely used in enterprise initiatives such as public cloud, data science, AI, engineering innovation and IoT. The company is a pioneer of global distributed collaboration, with 1200+ colleagues in more than 80 countries and very few office-based roles.
Mission
Changing the world of software as the company that publishes Ubuntu, one of the most important open source projects and the platform for AI, IoT and the cloud
Key facts
- 1200+ colleagues
- 2004
- Open-source software and operating systems
- Publishes Ubuntu
- 1200+ colleagues in more than 80 countries
- Very few office-based roles; most colleagues have worked from home since its inception in 2004
- Founder led, profitable and growing
- Teams meet two to four times yearly in person
- Customers include the world's leading public cloud and silicon providers
What they value
- Excellence
- Fairness globally
- Diversity of experience, perspectives, and background