Remote IAM Engineering Manager – Distributed Systems Lead

Remote Jobs; Canada (KY); Hybrid; USD 150,000 - 210,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Team sprints in person

Learning budget USD 2,000 per year

Annual compensation review

Recognition rewards

Annual holiday leave

Parental leave

Wellness platform

Job summary

Canonical is hiring an Engineering Manager for IAM to build high-performing Go and Python services and secure identity and access management across Canonical products. From Ubuntu One SSO to Juju, LXD and MAAS, your team will define how users access open source applications.

This role requires leadership of a distributed software engineering team, collaboration with product management, and a focus on security, performance, and scalable design. Remote work with occasional travel twice a year.

Qualifications

• Proven experience hiring and leading a high performance software engineering team.
• Experience with Go and Python software development.
• Ability to design and implement complex, distributed system.
• Experience working with container technology and Kubernetes.
• Strong understanding of software/infrastructure security and performance.
• Experience designing and/or operating large scale distributed systems.
• Knowledge of identity and access management technologies and standards is desirable but not essential.
• Undergraduate degree in a technical subject or a compelling narrative about your alternative chosen path.
• Professional written and spoken English with excellent presentation skills.
• Excellent interpersonal skills, curiosity, flexibility, and accountability.
• Ability to travel internationally twice a year for company events up to two weeks long.

Responsibilities

• Design software, write high-quality code and tests, provide insightful code reviews, and help troubleshoot issues.
• Collaborate with product management to define the technical vision and roadmap.
• Coach and develop team members; manage the team backlog and deliverables.

Skills

Go

Python

Distributed systems

Kubernetes

Security

Large-scale systems

Education

Undergraduate degree in a technical subject

Tools

Kubernetes

Job description

Canonical is hiring an Engineering Manager for IAM to build high-performing Go and Python services and secure identity and access management across Canonical products. From Ubuntu One SSO to Juju, LXD and MAAS, your team will define how users access open source applications.

This role requires leadership of a distributed software engineering team, collaboration with product management, and a focus on security, performance, and scalable design. Remote work with occasional travel twice a year.