Jobs at Canonical

The Distributed Systems Testing team at Canonical is responsible for developing integration test tooling, analytics and procedures for Canonical's cloud solutions. These include both infrastructure such as MAAS, LXD, OpenStackand Kubernetes, and distributed application solutions such as Kubeflow, Spark and Hadoop. These solutions operate at every level of the stack - from bare metal, up to containers. You will need an exceptional understanding of Linux networking, storage, monitoring and distributed systems tracing to lead this work.

As the engineering manager you'll lead the team, shaping the vision and setting the pace, and collaborate with product teams who build Canonical's end-to-end cloud portfolio. Your challenge is to ensure high quality and reliability of Canonical's cloud solutions, by developing tools,testing procedures and pipelines for this purpose. Our goal is to revolutionise the world of operations from metal to container, and this quality team is central to our ability to deliver on that vision. We need a unified approach to test, verification and benchmarking that recognises the fluid nature of large-scale distributed systems in production over time.

The successful candidate will be multi-talented, with experience leading and growing successful, collaborative engineering teams, demonstrable ability to solve challenging distributed systems problems, and deep knowledge of Linux networking, storage, containers and virtualization.

What you'll do

• Build and lead a growing 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, agile software development practices
• Grow a healthy, collaborative engineering culture
• Be an active part of the leadership team shaping our approach to cloud
• 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 love developing and growing people and have a strong track record of doing it
• You have good knowledge of quality and reliability oriented engineering practices in a distributed system setting
• You are focused on success and the delivery of timely, high quality software
• You have solid experience working in an agile development environment
• You have a Bachelor's or equivalent in Computer Science, STEM or similar degree
• You have strong written and verbal technical communication skills
• You understand modern Linux cloud computing technologies, including networking, storage, containers and K8s
• Familiarity and real project experience with Python

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As a Partner Engineering Manager at Canonical your role is to manage relationships with our key technology partners by ensuring timely delivery on agreed project milestones. Technical leadership experience and a background in software engineering are necessary prerequisites for this role. You will be expected to lead, challenge, and develop strong engineers, positively influence the culture, facilitate technical delivery, and work with your team on strategy and execution.

What you'll do

• Lead a team of distributed engineers to design and implement the best Ubuntu integration for the latest IoT and server-class hardware platforms and software stacks
• Engage with commercial partners to deliver a delightful, optimised, first class Ubuntu experience on their platforms
• Develop your team through coaching, mentoring, leading by example, and feedback
• Oversee commercial engagements and support timely delivery on agreed project milestones
• Ensure an ongoing commitment to strict quality and reliability standards
• Engage with other teams at Canonical to ensure alignment on product architecture and roadmaps
• Work from home with global travel up to twice a year for up to two weeks

Who you are

• You have worked with Linux distributions, debian packaging and high performance, server-class hardware
• You have experience working directly with customers, resolving their technical issues, interpreting their business challenges and effectively communicating how your solution will meet their needs
• You have demonstrated experience managing or leading a team of software engineers
• You have understanding of agile software development methodologies
• You collaborate effectively across multiple internal teams, building trust and delivering results
• You have effective communications skills in English, both written and oral
• You have a bachelor's (or equivalent university level) degree, preferably in a technology field

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This role is to ensure that Canonical conducts its business processes in compliance with laws and regulations, international standards, and accepted business practice. This position is for an individual with the knowledge, drive and personal motivation to set up a strong governance framework in a fast-growing tech company, as well as help it achieve/maintain the necessary compliance certifications. It requires a background in IT internal audit and an appreciation of the challenges involved in driving security/compliance initiatives in a software engineering organization.

This role can be home or office based. Periodic international travel for training and business meetings is required.

Key responsibilities:

• Shape and drive the company's information security risk management and internal control framework
• Maintain and develop information security policies, and verify compliance with those policies
• Work with our Legal team to respond to internal and external information security compliance issues
• Collaborate closely with leaders to understand their security, privacy and compliance requirements
• Make sure that customer data is safeguarded and used ethically and responsibly
• Organize and conduct Risk/Privacy/Compliance training and assessments
• Educate and inform employees about our practices and standards
• Manage internal and external audit and testing programs, reporting risks that need correction
• Prioritize compliance work
• Coordinate activities with external consultants and internal stakeholders for quality compliance (e.g. ISO 9001, 15504)
• Review and respond to security questionnaires and contract questions from customers

Required skills and experience:

• Bachelor's degree (or equivalent) in Computer Science, Information Systems, or related field
• Familiarity with procurement compliance obligations, contractual security and privacy
• Experience defining and implementing appropriate methodologies for auditing, takedown processes and law enforcement
• Ability to be an ambassador for compliance policies and procedures within a highly technical software organization
• You can speak articulately about situational awareness, change management, and access control
• Demonstrated ability to explain risk assessments, actions needed, and cost implications
• General understanding of international privacy and compliance legislation, including the GDPR
• Experience working with legal, audit, and compliance staff
• Experience developing and maintaining policies, procedures, standards, and guidelines
• Experience driving risk-based decisions supporting business owner expectations and needs

Valuable experience:

• Affinity with Open Source software with regards to compliance
• Knowledge and experience of applicable frameworks and regulatory requirements, e.g. ISO 2700x, PCI-DSS, NIST
• Technical or engineering background, including software development, scripting, networking, and cloud architecture

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As an engineering manager at Canonical your primary responsibility is to the people you support: ensuring that they are growing as engineers, doing valuable work, and generally having a great time at Canonical. As a lead for strong engineers, technical leadership and a solid background in software development is a must, so that you're able to challenge and grow your team members. You will have the opportunity to influence the culture, facilitate technical delivery, and work with your team on strategy and execution.

What you'll do

• Lead a team of distributed engineers to design and implement the best Ubuntu integration for the latest IoT and server-class hardware platforms and software stacks
• Engage with commercial partners to deliver a delightful, optimised, first class Ubuntu experience on their platforms
• Develop your team through coaching, mentoring, leading by example, and feedback
• Oversee commercial engagements and support timely delivery on agreed project milestones
• Ensure an ongoing commitment to strict quality and reliability standards
• Engage with other teams at Canonical to ensure alignment on product architecture and roadmaps
• Work from home with global travel up to twice a year for up to two weeks

Who you are

• You have worked with Linux distributions, debian packaging and high performance, server-class hardware
• You have experience working directly with customers, resolving their technical issues, interpreting their business challenges and effectively communicating how your solution will meet their needs
• You have demonstrated experience managing or leading a team of software engineers
• You have understanding of agile software development methodologies
• You collaborate effectively across multiple internal teams, building trust and delivering results
• You have effective communications skills in English, both written and oral
• You have a bachelor's (or equivalent university level) degree, preferably in a technology field