Engineering Manager- Ceph & Distributed Storage

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 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.

We are hiring an Engineering Manager for Ceph & Distributed Storage. We want to help teams store data in open source storage on commodity hardware—safely, cheaply and simply. Our goal is to make Ceph easy to install, manage and use—for large enterprise data center installations to half‑rack edge sites. You will be technically strong and responsible for running an effective team and developing the colleagues you manage.

You will lead, challenge, and develop strong engineers, positively influence the culture, facilitate technical delivery, and work with your team on strategy and execution. You will be responsible for sound software architecture and best practices in software quality, testing and documentation.

What you’ll do

• Lead a team building a Ceph‑focused software‑defined storage solution.

• Build and manage a globally distributed team of engineers.

• Develop your team through coaching, mentoring and feedback.

• Demonstrate sound engineering principles by directly contributing toward your team’s goals.

• Set reasonable schedules based on considered estimates, with feedback loops for improvement.

• Set and manage expectations with other engineering teams and external stakeholders.

• Advance modern, agile software‑development practices.

• Maintain a culture of quality and engineering excellence.

• Grow a healthy, collaborative engineering culture in line with the company values.

• Be an active part of the leadership team, collaborating with other leaders in the organization.

• Work from home with global travel up to 20% for internal and external events.

Who you are

• Software engineering background, preferably with Python and C++ experience.

• Experience operating scale‑out storage clusters on Linux in production environments, preferably with Ceph.

• You love embracing new technologies and pushing the boundaries of what is possible&You love developing and growing people and have a track record of doing it.

• Interest in building products that improve how people operate software and infrastructure everywhere.

• Knowledgeable and passionate about software development.

• Experience in leading, managing, coaching and mentoring software developers towards delivering timely, high‑quality software together.

• Solid experience working in an agile development environment.

About Canonical

Canonical is a pioneering tech firm at the forefront of the global move to open source. As the company that publishes Ubuntu, one of the most important open‑source projects and the platform for AI, IoT, and the cloud, we are changing the world of software. We recruit on a global basis and set a very high standard for people joining the company.

We expect excellence; in order to succeed, we need to be the best at what we do. Most colleagues at Canonical have worked from home since 2004. Working here is a step into the future and will challenge you to think differently, work smarter, learn new skills, and raise your game.

Canonical is an equal‑opportunity employer.

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