Engineering Manager, MAAS
Canonical
Posted on 9 Dec
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Experience
5 - 10 Years
Job Location
Education
Bachelor of Technology/Engineering
Nationality
Any Nationality
Gender
Not Mentioned
Vacancy
1 Vacancy
Job Description
Roles & Responsibilities
Canonical is seeking passionate technical leaders who are eager to drive innovation in one of Canonical's flagship data center products. You will play a key role in reshaping the future of data center technology through open source management platforms. MAAS aims to revolutionize data center management at scale starting from day zero deployment to long term data center expansion and maintenance.
Technical leadership experience and a background in software engineering are necessary prerequisites for this role. You will be expected to lead, challenge, and develop engineers, positively influence team and company culture, facilitate technical delivery, and guide strategy and execution. In addition to these responsibilities, you will be expected to collaborate across engineering. The MAAS team regularly interfaces with teams responsible for cloud-init, LXD, and our public cloud offerings.
The successful candidate will have technical leadership attributes and can demonstrate the ability to solve challenging distributed systems problems.
Location: This is a work-from-anywhere position available in EMEA or the Americas.
The role entails
- Leading a distributed team of engineers in your time zone (we organise engineering teams by Americas, EMEA etc)
- Talent development through coaching, mentoring, feedback and career planning
- Setting and managing expectations with other engineering teams, senior management, and external stakeholders
- Being an advocate of, and advancing, modern software development practices
- Participating in the engineering process through code and architectural review
- Engaging with broader teams at Canonical, the open source community and partners
- Travelling to internal and external global events for 4 to 6 weeks per year
Desired Candidate Profile
Bachelor's degree (or equivalent) and a background in Computer Science
Exceptional academic track record from both high school and university
Proven experience delivering software using Python, Golang, or similar languages
Experience with Linux system administration (Debian or Ubuntu preferred)
Familiarity with modern Linux cloud computing technologies, including networking, storage, containers and K8S
Technical aptitude for understanding complex distributed systems
Professional written and spoken English with excellent presentation skills
Experience with agile software development methodologies
Ability to mentor, develop, and support team members
Result-oriented, with a personal drive to meet commitments
Ability to travel internationally twice a year for company events up to two weeks long
Company Industry
Department / Functional Area
Keywords
- Engineering Manager
- MAAS
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Canonical
Canonical is a leading provider of open source software and operating systems to the global enterprise and technology markets. Our platform, Ubuntu, is very widely used in breakthrough enterprise initiatives such as public cloud, data science, AI, engineering innovation and IoT. Our customers include the world's leading public cloud and silicon providers, and industry leaders in many sectors. The company is a pioneer of global distributed collaboration, with 1200+ colleagues in more than 80 countries and very few office based roles. Teams meet two to four times yearly in person, in interesting locations around the world, to align on strategy and execution.The company is founder led, profitable and growing. We are hiring an Engineering Manager as we expand the MAAS team. Our mission with MAAS ("Metal as a Service") is to provide the best solution for building and running private bare-metal infrastructure, putting a cloud-style on-demand API in front of physical server provisioning, network configuration, and storage.