Engineering Manager, MAAS

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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 founder‑led, profitable and growing. We have 1,200+ 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.

We are hiring an Engineering for the MAAS team. Our mission with MAAS (“Metal as a Service”) 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.

The MAAS team is responsible for delivering our Metal as a Service hyperscale provisioning technology. MAAS is a rapidly evolving software stack written in Python and Go, spanning low‑level hardware detection to upper‑level management web interface, API and CLI. We need engineers fluent in all layers and able to anticipate the consequences of design choices across the distributed system.

Canonical seeks passionate technical leaders eager to drive innovation in one of our flagship data‑center products. You will play a key role in reshaping data‑center technology through open source management platforms, from day‑zero deployment to long‑term expansion and maintenance.

Technical leadership experience and a background in software engineering are necessary prerequisites. You will lead, challenge and develop engineers, influence team and company culture, facilitate technical delivery, guide strategy and execution, and collaborate across engineering. The MAAS team interfaces regularly with teams responsible for cloud‑init, LXD, and our public cloud offerings.

Location: This is a work‑from‑anywhere position available in EMEA or the Americas.

• 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

• 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

• Typescript using modern web frameworks such as React, Angular, Svelte or Vue
• Data Center infrastructure management and design

• 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

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