We deliver open source to the world faster, more securely and more cost effectively than any other company.
We develop Ubuntu, the world’s most popular enterprise Linux from cloud to edge, together with a passionate global community of 200,000 contributors. Ubuntu means 'humanity to others'​. We chose it because it embodies the generosity at the heart of open source, the new normal for platforms and innovation.
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As an engineering manager, you'll lead a team of strong software developers to design and implement snapd features and its integration with the Snap Store, underpinning the Ubuntu Core, Desktop and Server experience on various CPU architectures, such as ARM, RISC-V, and X86.
You will meet stakeholders, prioritize requests, plan the roadmap and ensure the team can deliver their goals.
You will have the opportunity to influence the culture, facilitate technical delivery, and work with your team on strategy and execution.
What you'll do
You will build and lead a distributed team of engineers through hiring, coaching, mentoring, feedback and hands-on career development
You will demonstrate sound engineering principles by directly contributing toward your team's goals
Support timely delivery of technical solutions to address business needs
Effectively set and manage expectations with other engineering teams, senior management, and external stakeholders
Advocate and advance modern, agile software development practices and help develop and evangelize great engineering and organizational practices
Grow a healthy, collaborative engineering culture in line with the company values
Be an active part of the leadership team and collaborate with other leaders in the organisation
Work from home with global travel twice a year for 2 weeks at a time, for company events
Who you are
You love technology and working with brilliant people
You are curious, flexible, articulate, and accountable
You love developing and growing people and have a track record of doing it
You are knowledgeable and passionate about software development
You have experience in leading, managing, coaching and mentoring software developers
You are comfortable planning and executing to deliver timely, high quality software
You have solid experience working in an agile development environment
You have a Bachelor's or equivalent in Computer Science, STEM or similar degree
You have experience with embedded software
You have experience with Golang, C/C++, and Shell
You have a solid understanding of Linux and a modern GNU/Linux distribution, Debian or Ubuntu preferred
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