Engineering Director, Canonical

• You are capable of representing Canonical / Ubuntu externally
• You have experience leading successful projects and teams
• You are organised and effective working through managers, from home
• You make well-considered plans and keep on top of progress weekly
• You are an articulate communicator
• You love technology and working with brilliant people
• You follow industry trends and new technologies, thoughtfully and carefully
• You understand and value how you do what you do, as well as what you do
• You have strong collaboration and influencing skills
• You are curious, flexible, articulate, and accountable

Desirable

• This is a director-level management opportunity to lead a globally distributed software engineering team that works in Python and Golang, and builds our systems management service Landscape, to help enterprises manage their Ubuntu operations at scale
• You'll be responsible for the day-to-day leadership of several teams spread across the globe, you'll own the roadmap, set the pace for the team, and deliver high quality software both as SAAS and on-premise
• As an engineering director at Canonical you are expected to be deeply technical and to enjoy working with code, but your primary responsibility is to develop and guide your teams
• You facilitate and ensure that they are continually improving, doing valuable work, and enjoying their time at Canonical despite (or perhaps because of) the intense and challenging nature of the work
• You will have the opportunity to influence the culture, facilitate technical delivery, and work with your teams to hone strategy and practices
• You'll be delivering a large project that powers complex, highly concurrent distributed software systems across the world, while growing and developing engineers at all levels
• You will be expected to lead and facilitate technical design and architecture work alongside your senior engineering staff
• Collaborate proactively with multiple distributed teams
• Help engineering teams establish and achieve community engagement goals
• Establish consistency in community process, engagement, and interaction across engineering
• Influence others and represent technical insight to customers and other engineers
• Spend a significant amount of time mentoring others and providing cross-team input
• Work from home with global travel 4 to 6 weeks for internal and external events