Software Engineering Director

Responsibilities

• Lead multiple global engineering teams across time zones
• Hire, mentor, and develop engineering managers and staff engineers
• Set engineering direction and pace for open source software products
• Drive testing, benchmarking, and quality improvements
• Represent products to stakeholders, partners, and customers
• Implement disciplined engineering processes and measure team health
• Collaborate with leadership and dependent product teams

Requirements

• Exceptional academic track record in high school and university
• Undergraduate degree in Computer Science or STEM
• Extensive engineering management experience
• Outstanding Linux based software engineering background
• Excellent written and verbal communication skills in English
• Public speaking and presentation ability
• Proven experience leading and mentoring software developers
• Advanced expertise in your technical domain
• Solid agile development experience
• Ability to travel twice per year for up to two weeks each

Preferred Qualifications

• Developer advocacy or community engagement experience
• Open source community leadership
• Operations and system administration background
• Performance engineering and security experience

Benefits

• Distributed remote work environment
• Twice-yearly in-person team sprints
• Annual personal learning and development budget of USD 2,000
• Performance-driven annual bonus
• Annual compensation review
• Recognition rewards
• Parental leave and Employee Assistance Programme
• Travel opportunities and Priority Pass for long haul events

About the Company

Canonical is a remote-first tech firm that publishes Ubuntu and drives the global move to open source. The company builds platforms for AI, IoT, and cloud computing, recruiting excellence on a global basis since 2004.