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Linux Software Engineering Manager - Ubuntu Platform Optimisation
Lead and develop a team of engineers, ranging from graduate to senior
Represent your team to partners, product stakeholders and customers
Collaborate proactively with a globally distributed organisation
Develop and evangelise great engineering and organisational practices
Coach, mentor, and offer career development feedback
Implement disciplined engineering processes
Plan and manage progress on agreed goals and projects
Be an active part of the leadership team, collaborating with other leaders
Collaborate with other teams at Canonical to ensure alignment on product architecture and roadmaps
Design and integrate new features and platform optimisations
What we’re looking for in you
Experience with Linux packaging (Debian, RPM, Yocto)
Experience working with Python, C, C++
Experience managing software engineers with a track record of planning, delivery and quality
Excellent verbal and written communication skills in English
A love of developing and growing people and a track record of it
Organised and able to ensure your team delivers timely, high quality results
Well-organised, self-starting and able to ensure your team delivers to schedule
Professional manner interacting with colleagues, partners, and community
Experience working with customers, going beyond resolving their technical issues, to interpreting their business challenges and effectively communicating how your solution will meet their needs
High-quality, well-designed and well-documented software experience
Builds trust, relationships and confidence
Solid experience working in an agile development environment
Ability to travel twice a year, for company events up to two weeks each
Additional skills we value
Experience working with open source communities and licenses
Experience with server technologies, including UEFI firmware, GPU computing, RDMA/Infiniband and virtualization stacks (kvm, qemu, libvirt)
Experience with IoT / Embedded devices from firmware, boot loaders and BSP enablement including hardware accelerators
Experience with graphics stacks
Experience with open source networking technologies (eBPF, OVS, OVN, SoNIC, DPDK, SPDK, etc)
Experience with container technologies such as LXD, Docker and Kubernetes
Understanding of security best practices and Secure Software Development Lifecycles
Experience designing and implementing CI/CD automation platforms such as GitHub Actions
Experience with performance benchmarking and profiling
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