Software Engineering Manager - Sustaining Engineering

Canonical; A distancia; MXN 1,547,000 - 2,236,000; Jornada completa

Descripción de la vacante

A leading software company is looking for an Engineering Manager for Sustaining Engineering, focusing on open source software and Linux. The role involves managing a distributed team, ensuring growth and contributions through mentorship, and prioritizing bug fixes and technical solutions. The ideal candidate has strong software delivery experience, leadership skills, and a commitment to quality. This remote role includes travel opportunities and a focus on work-life balance.

Servicios

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 for meetings

Travel upgrades for company events

Formación

• Professional software delivery experience using relevant programming languages.
• Knowledgeable and passionate about software development.
• Leadership experience in complex problem resolution and bug fixes.
• Experience with version control systems and debugging tools.
• Strong commitment to testing methodologies and code quality.
• Excellent communication skills in English.
• Experience with Linux, preferably Ubuntu.
• Experience with Open Source Business Models.
• People management experience in a support organization is a plus.

Responsabilidades

• Manage and lead a distributed team of engineers.
• Hire, coach, mentor, and provide career development guidance.
• Support timely delivery of bug fixes and technical solutions.
• Set and manage expectations with senior management and stakeholders.
• Advocate for modern software development practices.
• Grow a healthy, collaborative engineering culture.

Conocimientos

C programming

C++ programming

Go programming

Python programming

Leadership

Version control (git)

Communication skills (English)

Linux experience

Open Source knowledge

Debugging tools experience

Descripción del empleo

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 very 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 1100+ 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 Overview

We are hiring a Engineering Manager for Sustaining Engineering passionate about open source software, Linux and cloud computing. Come build a rewarding, meaningful career working with the best and brightest people in technology at Canonical, the growing international software company behind Ubuntu.

Open Sustainability Engineering is a business critical team that continuously improves various open source software by resolving software defects reported by customers. Software stack includes everything from the kernel all the way up to the user space applications and IaaS platforms. This position leads one of our regional teams and is one of several managers, who report directly to the global Director of Sustaining Engineering.

Our customers build large-scale mission critical infrastructure and application solutions on Ubuntu and open source from Canonical. While not actively developing products, Sustaining Engineering, as part of Support Engineering, solves problems for the customer and for the benefit of the wider Open Source community. This team is well staffed with experts in every time zone and, while the work can be challenging sometimes, the team is resourced to ensure a good work-life balance and ongoing development of each team member.

As an engineering manager in the Sustaining Engineering team, your primary responsibility is to the people you support: ensuring that they are growing as engineers, making valuable contributions, and generally having a great experience at Canonical. Technical leadership and a solid background in software development are a must, so that you are able to help your team members grow professionally. You will have the opportunity to influence the culture, facilitate technical delivery, and work with your team on strategy and execution.

Location: This is a globally remote role, unless specified otherwise.

Responsibilities

• Manage and lead a distributed team of engineers
• Hire, coach, mentor, provide feedback and career development guidance to your team
• Manage & measure key performance indicators (KPIs), and training
• Support timely delivery of bug fixes, patches, and other technical solutions to address business needs in a variety of technology fields, including but not limited to Ubuntu, OpenStack, Ceph, Kubernetes, Juju & MAAS
• Demonstrate the very best of Canonical in customer interactions
• Set and manage expectations with other engineering teams, senior management, and external stakeholders
• Advocate and advance modern software development practices
• Grow a healthy, collaborative engineering culture in line with the company value
• Collaborate with other teams in the organisation
• Work from home with global travel up to 10% for internal and external events

Qualifications

• Professional software delivery experience using C, C++, Go, Python, or similar
• You are knowledgeable and passionate about software development
• Leadership experience displaying ability to organise and prioritise complex problem resolution and bug fixes
• Experience with version control systems such as git
• Experience with debugging tools such as gdb, crash or other
• Demonstrated strong commitment to testing methodologies and maintainable code quality
• Excellent communication skills in the English language, both verbal and written
• Experience with Linux, with a preference towards Ubuntu
• Experience with Open Source and Open Source Business Models
• People management experience in a support organisation is a strong plus

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
• Employee Assistance Programme
• 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 have worked from home since its 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.

Equal Opportunity Statement

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.