Software Engineer - Docker Images & Community at Canonical

Job Description

• This role is to lead the team to design and build images, tools, technology, and community processes.
• This is an exciting opportunity for a software engineering manager, or exceptional engineer looking to take on management responsibilities, who is passionate about open source quality, community, containers, devops and cloud.
• Come build a rewarding, meaningful career working with the best and brightest people in technology at Canonical.
• To lead this team successfully you will need to manage high quality open source engineering, demonstrate deep insights into container-based devops, and engage openly with our community.
• Your time will be split between people management, daily development activities, and direct partner engagement.
• As an engineering manager at Canonical your primary responsibility is to your team: ensuring that they grow as engineers, do valuable work, and find satisfaction in their career at Canonical.
• We expect managers to demonstrate technical leadership so a solid background in software development is required, to challenge and grow your team members.

Responsibilities
What you’ll do

• Build and lead a distributed team of engineers in your time zone
• Hire, coach, mentor, provide feedback and hands-on career development
• Demonstrate sound engineering principles by contributing directly to your team’s goals
• Participate in strong engineering process through code and architectural review
• Estimate the engineering effort for roadmap goals and customer projects
• Set and manage expectations with other engineering teams, company management, and external stakeholders
• Advocate and advance modern, agile software development practices
• Develop and evangelize great engineering and organizational practices
• Grow a healthy, collaborative engineering culture in line with the company values
• Play an active part in the leadership team and collaborate with other leaders in the organisation
• Build robust, scalable, leading-edge container images
• Build automated, reliable container delivery, testing and publication pipelines
• Engage with the open source community on a daily basis, including them deeply in our processes
• Engage professionally with customers and commercial partners to tell the story of this work
• Work from home with global travel up to 15% for internal and external events

Who You Are

• You have a Bachelor’s or equivalent in Computer Science, STEM or similar degree
• You love developing and growing people and have a track record of doing it well
• You are knowledgeable and passionate about software development
• You have some experience in leading, managing, coaching and mentoring software developers
• You have a track record of delivering timely, high quality software
• You have experience with Docker images and containerised operations
• You have experience with Python
• You have strong written and verbal communication skills to convey technical concepts
• You bring clarity to technical and engineering discussions
• You have practical experience with Kubernetes
• You are familiar with Microsoft Azure, Google Cloud, or Amazon Web Services
• You understand the current state of the art in OCI image building
• You have experience working in an agile development environment

What Canonical Offers

• Learning and development, with annual budget for professional development
• Annual compensation review
• Recognition rewards
• Annual leave
• Priority Pass for travel
• Work remotely with a talented, distributed global team