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Software Engineering Manager; Backend SaaS

Remote / Online - Candidates ideally in
Trois-Rivières, Québec, Province de Québec, Canada
Listing for: Canonical
Remote/Work from Home position
Listed on 2026-01-01
Job specializations:
  • Software Development
    Software Engineer, Cloud Engineer - Software
Job Description & How to Apply Below
Position: Software Engineering Manager (Backend SaaS)
Location: Trois-Rivières

Software Engineering Manager (Backend SaaS)
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Company Overview
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 1,200+ 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.

About the Role
We are hiring an engineering manager to lead the reboot of our Landscape systems management solution for Ubuntu. Ubuntu is growing rapidly in the enterprise, with estates expanding from cloud, to bare metal servers, to vSphere clusters, and of course desktops and devices. It is difficult to know where you stand on policy and compliance, patch management, or access control across a large estate.

Landscape is an existing service serving thousands of deployments, and this role is the critical engineering leadership role for that mission.

Today we use Python, Postgre

SQL, Rabbit

MQ, HAProxy, and have a React

JS front end. In other web services projects we use more Golang. Our next wave of Landscape engineering is an opportunity to raise the bar on SaaS and on‑prem solution technologies, architectures, patterns and operations. The goal is to make it easy for enterprises to own a few Landscape instances that serve their global estate, and to apply policy globally across mixed Ubuntu versions, substrates and flavours.

Engineering managers at Canonical bring both technical and management skills. You will work closely with product managers, produce an engineering roadmap, grow a team of engineers, collaborate across teams, and provide updates on successes and areas of improvement.

Key Responsibilities

Build and lead a team of engineers in your region

Develop talent through coaching, mentoring, feedback, and hands‑on career development

Demonstrate sound engineering principles and directly contribute toward your team's goals

Set and manage expectations with other engineering teams, management, and external stakeholders

Lead modern, agile software development practices

Ensure a healthy, collaborative engineering culture in line with the company values

Be an active part of the leadership team and collaborate with other leaders in the organisation

Build automated, highly reliable image delivery, testing and publication pipelines

Engage with many other teams at Canonical, as well as the open source community and commercial partners

Work from home with global travel 4‑6 weeks per year for internal and external events

Valued Skills and Experience

You love to mentor, develop and grow people, and have a track record of doing it

You are knowledgeable and passionate about software development

You are focused on success and the delivery of timely, high quality software

You have experience and commitment to agile development methodologies

You have a Bachelor's or equivalent in Computer Science, STEM or similar degree

Software development experience in Python or Golang

Effective written and verbal communication skills

Practical experience with Linux system administration

What We Offer

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

Team Member Assistance Program & Wellness Platform

Opportunity to travel to new locations to meet colleagues

Priority Pass and travel upgrades for long‑haul company events

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 work from home since our inception in 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
We are proud to foster a workplace free from discrimination. Diversity of experience, perspectives, and background create a better work environment and better products. Whatever your identity, we will give your application fair consideration.

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