Engineering Manager, Commercial Systems

Overview

Engineering Manager, Commercial Systems at Canonical — Remote in the EMEA region.

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 across 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. The company is founder-led, profitable, and growing.

Role and unit

Our Commercial Systems unit is conceived as five engineering teams that closely collaborate with other engineering and business teams at Canonical. Services designed, developed, and operated by the Commercial Systems unit are used by millions of machines all over the world. The areas include : contracts service; JAAS / Identity / Livepatch; Data lake and SAAS integration; Integration with public clouds; and Salesforce. We are looking for software engineering managers, ideally with strong background in Go or Python, who will drive the success of these capabilities at scale, ensure the highest engineering quality, sharpen team skills, and help define the future of open source.

Location : This role will be based remotely in the EMEA region.

What your day will look like

• Lead a team of software engineers implementing and operating software solutions
• Provide engineering and process guidance to engineering teams
• Actively seek improvements to established processes, designs, and solutions
• Collaborate with peers and cross-functional teams
• Code in Go or Python

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What we offer you

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 have worked 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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