Software Engineering Manager - Container and Virtualisation Infrastructure

Software Engineering Manager – Container and Virtualisation Infrastructure

Location: Remote position available in EMEA and the Americas.

Canonical is a leading provider of open source software and operating systems. Our platform, Ubuntu, is widely used in public cloud, data science, AI, and IoT. The company is a pioneer of global distributed collaboration with 1200+ colleagues in 75+ 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. Our mission is to build a next‑generation private cloud infrastructure combining KVM, Ceph, and SDN technologies to create a data‑center‑scale cloud that “just works” and provides a mission‑critical cloud for edge and core enterprise deployments. We are hiring engineering managers with experience in high‑quality microservice architectures and high‑performance team leadership who also have deep familiarity with Linux kernel, virtualisation, storage and networking.

• 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.

• Understanding of modern Linux cloud computing technologies, including networking, storage, containers and Kubernetes.
• Strong track record of developing and growing people.
• Focused on success and the delivery of timely, high‑quality software.
• Bachelor’s or equivalent in Computer Science, STEM or similar degree.
• Strong written and verbal technical communication skills.
• Experience programming in C and/or Go.

• Distributed work environment with twice‑yearly team sprints in person.
• Personal learning and development budget of USD 2,000 per year.
• Annual compensation review.
• Recognition rewards.
• Annual holiday leave.
• Maternity and paternity leave.
• Employee Assistance Programme.
• Opportunity to travel to new locations to meet colleagues.
• Priority Pass, and travel upgrades for long‑haul company events.

Mid‑Senior level

Full‑time

Engineering and Information Technology

Software Development

Canonical is an equal opportunity employer. We are proud to foster a workplace free from discrimination. Diversity of experience, perspectives, and background creates a better work environment and better products. Whatever your identity, we will give your application fair consideration.