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Software Engineering Manager - Container and Virtualisation Infrastructure
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Software Engineering Manager - Container and Virtualisation Infrastructure
Join Canonical as a Software Engineering Manager – Container and Virtualisation Infrastructure to lead the next generation private cloud infrastructure, combining KVM, Ceph, and SDN technologies to create a data‑center‑scale cloud that "just works" and provides mission‑critical cloud for edge and core enterprise deployments.
Canonical is a leading provider of open source software and operating systems to the global enterprise and technology markets. Our platform, Ubuntu, is 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 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.
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 mission‑critical cloud for edge and core enterprise deployments. We're hiring engineering managers with experience in high‑quality micro‑service architectures and high‑performance team leadership who also have deep familiarity with Linux kernel, virtualisation, storage, and networking.
LXD components span the entire software stack from low‑level kernel features to the upper level management API/CLI. Our most effective engineers are fluent in all these layers, and able to anticipate the consequences of design and engineering choices elsewhere in a complex distributed system.
As an engineering manager at Canonical you must have a solid technical background, but your responsibility is to run an effective team and develop the colleagues you manage. You are expected to help them grow as engineers, do important work, do it outstandingly well, find professional and personal satisfaction, and work well with colleagues and the community. 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 the culture, facilitate technical delivery, and work with your team on strategy and execution.
The successful candidate will have experience leading successful, collaborative engineering teams, and demonstrate the ability to solve challenging distributed systems problems and deep knowledge of Linux.
Location :
This is a remote position available in EMEA and the Americas.
What you will focus on
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
What we are looking for in you
You understand modern Linux cloud computing technologies, including networking, storage, containers and K8s
You love developing and growing people and have a strong track record of doing it
You are focused on success and the delivery of timely, high‑quality software
You have a Bachelor’s or equivalent in Computer Science, STEM or similar degree
You have strong written and verbal technical communication skills
You have experience programming in C and/or Go
What we offer you
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
Canonical…
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