Engineering Lead - Remote, Build Open Source Teams

United States Digital Space LLC

United States

Remote

USD 180,000 - 240,000

Full time

14 days+

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Benefits offered by this job

Distributed team with twice-yearly s**

USD 2,000 learning budget per year

Annual compensation review

Recognition rewards

Annual holiday leave

Maternity and paternity leave

Employee Assistance Programme

Travel to meet colleagues

Travel upgrades for long haul events

Job summary

Canonical is seeking engineering leaders to guide Ubuntu engineering across foundations, server, desktop and debcrafter teams. The role emphasizes technical leadership, continued code quality, performance and resilience, while nurturing engineers and shaping strategy.

Leaders will stay technically engaged, influence culture, and partner with product teams to define the vision for Ubuntu. Remote work in multiple time zones is available with global collaboration.

Qualifications

Strong track record in leading and growing high‑performing software teams.
Experience building and shipping high‑quality, performant software across platforms.
Excellent communication and collaboration with cross‑functional teams.
Passion for open source and collaborative development.

Responsibilities

Lead, challenge and grow software engineers across multiple teams.
Drive technical delivery, architecture decisions and project execution.
Collaborate with product management to define vision for Ubuntu.
Contribute to upstream/open source projects and engineering documentation.

Skills

Rust

Python

Flutter

C/C++

Education

Undergraduate degree in Computer Science or STEM

Job description

Leaders will stay technically engaged, influence culture, and partner with product teams to define the vision for Ubuntu. Remote work in multiple time zones is available with global collaboration.

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