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Engineering Manager, MAAS

Job in Rome, Italy
Listing for: Altro
Full Time position
Listed on 2025-12-23
Job specializations:
  • Software Development
    Software Engineer, Cloud Engineer - Software, DevOps
Salary/Wage Range or Industry Benchmark: 50000 - 70000 EUR Yearly EUR 50000.00 70000.00 YEAR
Job Description & How to Apply Below
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 more than 80 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 the MAAS (Metal as a Service) team. Our mission is to provide the best solution for building and running private bare‑metal infrastructure, putting a cloud‑style on‑demand API in front of physical server provisioning, network configuration, and storage. We seek engineering managers with experience in high‑quality software development, high‑performance team leadership, and deep familiarity with Linux on physical servers, Linux storage and data center networking capabilities.

The MAAS team delivers our Metal As A Service hyperscale provisioning technology. MAAS is written in Python and Go. Its components span the entire software stack, from low‑level hardware detection and provisioning to the upper‑level management web interface, API, and CLI.

The role entails

Leading a distributed team of engineers in your time zone (we organise engineering teams by Americas, EMEA etc)

Talent development through coaching, mentoring, feedback and career planning

Setting and managing expectations with other engineering teams, senior management, and external stakeholders

Being an advocate of, and advancing, modern software development practices

Participating in the engineering process through code and architectural review

Engaging with broader teams at Canonical, the open source community and partners

Travelling to internal and external global events for 4 to 6 weeks per year

What we are looking for in you

Bachelor's degree (or equivalent) and a background in Computer Science

Exceptional academic track record from both high school and university

Proven experience delivering software using Python, Golang, or similar languages

Experience with Linux system administration (Debian or Ubuntu preferred)

Familiarity with modern Linux cloud computing technologies, including networking, storage, containers and K8S

Technical aptitude for understanding complex distributed systems

Professional written and spoken English with excellent presentation skills

Experience with agile software development methodologies

Ability to mentor, develop, and support team members

Result‑oriented, with a personal drive to meet commitments

Ability to travel internationally twice a year for company events up to two weeks long

Nice‑to‑have skills

Typescript using modern web frameworks such as React, Angular, Svelte or Vue

Data Center infrastructure management and design

What we offer colleagues

Distributed work environment with twice‑yearly team sprints in person – we've been working remotely since 2004

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 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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