Drive the future of collaborative open-source development tooling as part of the Launchpad team. This is an opportunity for a motivated engineering manager with a passion for open-source software, Linux, and web services to join our distributed team.
Launchpad is a robust platform for managing open-source development projects. It includes code hosting and review, bug tracking, package building, translations, and other facilities used by free and open-source software developers. It provides essential development infrastructure for major projects such as Ubuntu.
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. We're looking for technical leadership and a solid background in software development, 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.
Build a rewarding, meaningful career working with the best and brightest people in technology at Canonical, a growing international software company.
What you'll do
Grow and lead a team of engineers in your regionDevelop talent through coaching, mentoring, feedback, and hands-on career developmentApply sound engineering principles and directly contribute toward your team's goalsCreate and maintain productive relationships with stakeholdersSet and manage expectations with other engineering teams, management, and external stakeholdersCollaborate proactively with a distributed team and communityLead the ongoing development of Launchpad, the infrastructure on which great software like Ubuntu is builtAdvocate and advance modern, agile software development practices and help develop and evangelise great engineering and organisational practicesGrow a healthy, collaborative engineering culture in line with the company valuesActively engage with the broader leadership teamWork from home with international travel up to 6 weeks per year for internal and external eventsWho you are
You have experience leading a distributed team to deliver features and manage production services at scaleYou love to mentor, develop, and grow people, and have an outstanding track record of doing soYou are knowledgeable and passionate about technologyYou have experience delivering high quality softwareYou have experience designing and evolving complex distributed systemsYou have effective written and verbal communication skillsYou have solid experience working in an agile development environmentLocation
This is a remote role based in the EMEA region. Candidates will be expected to be located within this region.
We are proud to foster a workplace free from discrimination. We truly believe that diversity of experience, perspectives, and background will lead to a better environment for our employees and a better platform for our users and customers. This is something we value deeply, and we encourage everyone to come be a part of the world of Ubuntu.
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