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Software Engineering Director
Contract type
Ongoing
Work mode
Remote · Worldwide
Experience
Lead / principal · Not stated
Level inferred from job title
Job description
Engineering Director at Canonical, leading multiple engineering teams and engineering managers across time zones to build Canonical's largest open source software products. This is a general track; the specific product is discussed after the first interview round.
At a glance
- Employment
- Full-time · Employee (employment agreement)
- Work mode
- Remote · Worldwide
- Languages
- English – fluent
What you'll do
- Lead multiple teams of engineers, ranging from graduate to senior
- Develop your engineering managers and maintain Canonical culture
- Hire staff level engineers for specific roles like performance and quality
- Coach, mentor, and offer career development feedback
- Identify and measure indicators of team health and productivity
- Ensure rounded delivery including community participation and docs
- Implement disciplined engineering processes and defend them
- Set and measure progress against benchmark goals for speed and efficiency
- Represent your product to stakeholders, partners, and customers
- Develop and evangelise great engineering and organisational practices
- Plan and manage progress on agreed goals and projects
- Be an active part of the leadership team, collaborating with other leaders
- Collaborate with leads for related or dependent products
What we're looking for
- An exceptional academic track record from both high school and university
- Undergraduate degree in Computer Science or STEM, or a compelling narrative about your alternative path
- Extensive management experience and confidence to set high expectations
- Outstanding Linux based software engineering track record
- Drive and a track record of going above-and-beyond expectations
- Excellent verbal and written communication skills in English
- Public speaking and presentation skills
- A love of developing and growing people and a track record of it
- Experience in leading, coaching and mentoring software developers
- Organised and able to ensure your team delivers timely, high quality results
- Well-organised, self-starting and able to deliver to schedule
- Professional manner interacting with colleagues, partners, and community
- You have advanced expertise in your own domain
- You are knowledgeable and passionate about software development
- You have solid experience working in an agile development environment
- You have a demonstrated drive for continual learning
- Builds trust, relationships and confidence
- Result-oriented, with a personal drive to meet commitments
- Ability to travel twice a year, for company events up to two weeks each
- Outstanding developer with confidence to lead by example across the full range of activities in their teams
- Understand what great code looks like in the language and genre of the product
- Know how to drive testing and benchmarking to improve clarity around quality and performance
- Confident to set and defend high expectations of work ethic, consistency, focus and learning
Nice to have
- Experience in a developer advocacy or community role
- Open source community engagement and leadership
- Ops and system administration experience
- Performance engineering and security experience
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 Programme
- Opportunity to travel to new locations to meet colleagues
- Priority Pass, and travel upgrades for long haul company events
- Performance-driven annual bonus
How to get hired
- 1First round of interviews, after which specific software products are discussed
Apply
About Canonical
The company that publishes Ubuntu
Canonical is a pioneering tech firm at the forefront of the global move to open source. As the company that publishes Ubuntu, one of the most important open source projects and the platform for AI, IoT and the cloud, we are changing the world on a daily basis. Canonical has been a remote-first company since its inception in 2004.
Mission
To make open source easier, more reliable and more secure for deployment and development; to be the provider of 'most software to most companies'.
Key facts
- 2004
- Open source software
- Publishes Ubuntu, one of the most important open source projects and the platform for AI, IoT and the cloud
- Remote-first company since its inception in 2004
- Recruits on a global basis
What they value
- Excellence
- Open source
- Diversity of experience, perspectives, and background