Engineering Director, Ubuntu Systems Management at Canonical

• As an engineering director at Canonical you are expected to be deeply technical and to enjoy working with code, but your primary responsibility is to develop and guide your teams. You facilitate and ensure that they are continually improving, doing valuable work, and enjoying their time at Canonical despite (or perhaps because of) the intense and challenging nature of the work. You will have the opportunity to influence the culture, facilitate technical delivery, and work with your teams to hone strategy and practices. We look for cheerful but steely leads, who are ambitious to compete with the best companies in the world and deliver a better experience for open source at scale.
• You'll be delivering a large project that powers complex, highly concurrent distributed software systems across the world, while growing and developing engineers at all levels. We're looking for someone with a proven track record in management, and delivery of quality software over time.
• Technical contribution through code is a plus but not the primary focus of this role. Significant past experience with hands-on software development, particularly in Go, is desirable. You will be expected to lead and facilitate technical design and architecture work alongside your senior engineering staff.
• The role is fully remote, with global travel for 4-6 weeks per year to facilitate company events.

What your day will look like

• Collaborate proactively with multiple distributed teams
• Help engineering teams establish and achieve community engagement goals
• Establish consistency in community process, engagement, and interaction across engineering
• Influence others and represent technical insight to customers and other engineers
• Spend a significant amount of time mentoring others and providing cross-team input
• Work from home with global travel 4 to 6 weeks for internal and external events

What we are looking for in you

• You are capable of representing Canonical / Ubuntu externally
• You have experience leading successful projects and teams
• You are organised and effective working through managers, from home
• You make well-considered plans and keep on top of progress weekly
• You are an articulate communicator
• You love technology and working with brilliant people
• You follow industry trends and new technologies, thoughtfully and carefully
• You understand and value how you do what you do, as well as what you do
• You have strong collaboration and influencing skills
• You are curious, flexible, articulate, and accountable
• You value soft skills and are passionate, enterprising, thoughtful, and self-motivated
• Willingness to travel up to 4 times a year for internal events

Additional Skills That You Might Also Bring

• Experience doing systems management of Linux infrastructure would be a plus
• A public record of community engagement, particularly with open source communities
• You are comfortable preparing and giving presentations
• Experience building highly scalable Python web applications would be a plus
• Experience building highly scalable SaaS applications would be a plus