Employment Type : Full-Time
This is the Fast Track application process for Engineering Director roles at Canonical. As a global platform company we offer a wide range of software engineering challenges, from the Linux kernel up through Ubuntu server, desktop, IoT and operations tooling, from the public cloud to the edge, both open source products and internal commercial business systems. We work in low-level engineering with kernels and compilers and toolchains, we work with web technology, and many layers in between.
Our engineering directors run products which are too large for a single team. Great directors of engineering work at a higher level, ensuring productivity and satisfaction for the whole team, and coordinating across the company. We require extensive engineering experience in director appointments so that decisions and work can be assessed at a technical level, but the mission of a director is to build and develop a group that is highly effective at every level.
At the scale at which engineering directors work, we expect them to be accountable for the rounded results of their team - not just code, but engagement with the open source community, documentation, quality and product performance and efficiency.
Applications to this Fast Track queue are reviewed by a senior team at Canonical for Software Engineering Director placements across the company. Successful candidates will be offered a set of engineering director opportunities matched to their strengths and interests to start their career at Canonical.
You are an exceptional Software Engineering Director candidate
You have proven outstanding at maths and sciences, have built high quality software, gained software engineering management experience and are now looking for a challenging engineering director role with a company that makes critical products for the global market.
You also believe you have excellent judgement about people - their motivations, abilities, developmental needs and prospects for success.
Your technology interests may include cloud computing, IoT, or Linux itself. You have a gift for software design and implementation, and enjoy contributing to a highly professional environment with careful choices of technology, architecture, data design, and user interface. You have broad-based knowledge of Linux, networking, software development, databases, API design and possibly web presentation layers.
You are familiar with the open source environment, and want to build products in partnership with a community.
You can demonstrate insight into performance and quality engineering practices, and you have helped teams embrace effective disciplines on both fronts. You also have an understanding of security practices and principles and the impact that engineering choices have on product security.
You have experience producing well-documented products and working with design professionals to shape the product. You have clearly articulated views on the ways engineering practices influence product outcomes, not just technically but in open source communities and in the marketplace.
You have deep experience with either or both Python and Golang. You may also have front-end web engineering experience, or deep Linux kernel or operating system experience.
It is an advantage to be able to point to open source work of your own which demonstrates these strengths.
This is a role for leadership, management, organization, architecture, design and mentorship, not individual contribution through coding. You should relish the opportunity to shape and direct and develop an engineering team that is happy and brilliant, and produces a product that will be a pleasure to use and to evolve.
We are hiring engineering leadership in the following areas:
Cloud native development and operations (Docker, Kubernetes, CAAS, PAAS)
Internet of things technologies and capabilities
Containerisation and virtualization technologies
Devsecops tooling, practices and services
Commercial business systems for Canonical itself
Data applications from SQL databases to big data
AI/ML ops and technologies
Robotics and embedded Linux in a wide variety of industries
Security offerings, practices and services
Storage from raw disk to filesystem to network service
Networking from bare metal to SDN and overlays
Distributed systems design and implementation
Linux, the kernel and Ubuntu itself
Desktop Linux and desktop applications on Windows and macOS
Open source community collaboration
This is a director-level role, but we expect directors of engineering to have delivered successful software projects in their own right during their career. In applying for this role you will need to demonstrate both exceptional technical skill, broad based knowledge of the modern open source software arena, proven mathematics or engineering ability, and the ability to articulate ideas and motivate others to embrace your thinking.
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