Software Engineering Manager; Backend SaaS

Software Engineering Manager (Backend SaaS)

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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. The company is founder‑led, profitable, and growing. We are hiring an engineering manager to lead the reboot of our Landscape systems management solution for Ubuntu.

Ubuntu is rapidly growing in the enterprise, expanding from cloud to bare‑metal servers, vSphere clusters, desktops, and devices. While easy to deploy, it can be difficult to know where you stand on policy, patch management, or access control across a large estate. Landscape provides a high‑quality way to manage Ubuntu estates, and we want to give it a fresh push.

Today we use Python, Postgre

SQL, Rabbit

MQ, HAProxy, and a React

JS front end. As our next wave of Landscape engineering, we aim to raise the bar on SaaS and on‑prem solution technologies, architectures, patterns and operations.

• 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

• Love to mentor, develop and grow people, with a proven track record
• Knowledgeable and passionate about software development
• Focused on the delivery of timely, high‑quality software
• Experience and commitment to agile development methodologies
• Bachelor's or equivalent in Computer Science, STEM or a similar degree
• Software development experience in Python or Golang
• Effective written and verbal communication skills
• Practical experience with Linux system administration

• 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

Canonical is a pioneering tech firm leading the global move to open source. As the publisher of Ubuntu, 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 are proud to foster a workplace free from discrimination. Diversity of experience, perspectives, and backgrounds creates a better work environment and better products. Whatever your identity, we will give your application fair consideration.

Mid‑Senior level

Full‑time

Engineering and Information Technology

Industries:
Software Development