Career Opportunities at Canonical

What You'll Do

• Lead a team of remote engineers
• Participate in the engineering process through code and architectural review
• Develop talent through coaching, mentoring and feedback
• Set and manage expectations with other engineering squads, senior management, and external stakeholders
• Engage with teams at Canonical, the open source community and partners
• Work from home with global travel for 4 to 6 weeks per year for internal and external events

Who You Are

• You understand modern Linux cloud computing technologies, including networking, storage, containers and K8s
• You are focused on success and the delivery of timely, high quality software
• You love developing and growing people and have a strong track record of doing it
• You have a Bachelor's or equivalent in Computer Science, STEM or similar degree
• You have strong written and verbal technical communication skills
• You have experience programming in C and/or Go.

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What you'll do

• Lead a team of remote engineers
• Develop talent through coaching, mentoring, feedback and hands-on career development
• Set and manage expectations with other engineering teams, senior management, and external stakeholders
• Advocate and advance modern software development practices
• Participate in the engineering process through code and architectural review
• Engage with teams at Canonical, the open source community and partners
• Work from home with global travel for 4 to 6 weeks per year for internal and external events

Who you are

• You understand modern Linux cloud computing technologies, including networking, storage, containers and K8s
• You love developing and growing people and have a strong track record of doing it
• You are focused on success and the delivery of timely, high quality software
• You have a Bachelor's or equivalent in Computer Science, STEM or similar degree
• You have strong written and verbal technical communication skills
• You have experience programming in C and/or Go.

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What You Will Do

• Design, implement and document REST APIs inside a Go codebase
• Model data, design database schemas and implement data storage in a dqlite (SQL) database
• Integrate with external REST APIs and other external services (logging, monitoring, …)
• Maintain code quality through static analysis, unit and system tests
• Collaborate proactively with a distributed team
• Discuss ideas and collaborate on finding good solutions
• Work from home with global travel 2 to 4 weeks/year for internal and external events

Who You Are

• You are curious, flexible, articulate and accountable
• You value soft skills and are enterprising, thoughtful and self-motivated
• You have a Bachelor's or equivalent in Computer Science, STEM or similar degree
• You have experience programming in Go
• You have experience in designing or implementing REST APIs
• You have database and data modelling experience
• You have experience with two or more of: cloud computing, virtualisation, containers, distributed systems, open source community

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What your day will look like

• Lead a world-class rigorous software engineering process
• Lead the design and implementation of Charmed Operators
• Collaborate with other leaders to develop best practices
• Work with partners and the open source community
• Coach, mentor and develop engineers across the business

What we are looking for in you

• Exceptional academic track record in maths and the sciences
• Demonstrated ability to design and build high quality software
• High level of proficiency in Python and with Kubernetes
• Demonstrated ability to build and lead engineering teams
• Willingness to travel up to 4 times a year for internal events

Additional Skills That You Might Also Bring

• Experienced in Machine Learning tooling
• Experienced in the operation of Machine Learning tooling at scale
• Competency in Go programming
• Experience with working in and contributing to open source communities

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What your day will look like

• Lead and scale Canonical's regional HR team (1-4 direct reports, depending on region)
• Deliver precise and compliant HR operations in a timely manner and with the highest degree of accuracy
• Interact closely with Talent Acquisition and Workplace Engineering teams and create tight-knit processes across all HR regions
• Be accountable for HR processes such as talent development, succession planning, performance assessments, onboarding, culture and engagement initiatives that drive a high performing team
• Work with senior managers across the business on performance management, organizational design, employee engagement, rewards- and workforce planning
• Coach and advise people managers on the full spectrum of employee relations issues across multiple countries
• Partner with people managers to support the delivery of appropriate training and development programs
• Establish a trusted partnership with the business in your region
• Drive diversity, equity, and inclusion initiatives
• Design new policies and deliver on business-critical HR related projects globally
• Present at Canonical events to articulate Canonical's HR practices

What we are looking for in you

• Degree qualified
• HR experience leading initiatives across regions within a technology business (Americas or EMEA)
• People management experience
• Experience in business partnering with senior stakeholders
• A good balance between leading and executing, in this role you will need to be hands-on involved in the daily HR routines, too
• Experience in working in a remote first organization
• Able to leverage data to make informed decisions
• Knowledge and practical implementation of HR practices and employment law across EMEA or Americas
• Fluent in business English (written and spoken)
• Self motivated, organized, accurate, confident, authentic, results-orientated, open-minded, enthusiastic and energetic
• Willingness to travel up to 4 times a year for internal events

Additional Skills That You Might Also Bring

• Experience with immigration policies and mobility processes
• Professional HR qualification (CIPD/SHRM or other)
• Facilitation skills

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Required Skills And Experience

• Demonstrable experience of work on modern web applications
• A strong understanding of HTML, CSS with SCSS and JavaScript
• Experience with Javascript components libraries
• Experience with TypeScript
• Experience with responsive user interfaces for a wide range of devices and browsers
• Experience with Git or other version control systems
• Awareness of SEO best practice
• Consideration of accessibility in all aspects of your work
• A strong understanding of web performance in complex user interfaces
• Ability to interact with UX, designers and server-side developers
• Curiosity about technology and a thirst to learn
• Based in EMEA timezones (Europe, the Middle East and Africa)
• University degree or equivalent education

Useful experience if you have it

• Familiarity with Linux desktop technologies
• Server-side languages, such as Python or NodeJS
• Experience working on a large scale React (with TypeScript) project
• A history of open source contributions
• Relevant work experience