Responsibilities
- Lead and develop a team of engineers, ranging from graduate to
senior
- Represent your team to partners, product stakeholders and
customers
- Collaborate proactively with a globally distributed
organisation
- Develop and evangelise great engineering and organisational
practices
- Coach, mentor, and offer career development feedback
- Implement disciplined engineering processes
- Plan and manage progress on agreed goals and projects
- Be an active part of the leadership team, collaborating with
other leaders
- Collaborate with other teams at Canonical to ensure alignment
on product architecture and roadmaps
- Design and integrate new features and platform optimisations
Qualifications
- Experience with Linux packaging (Debian, RPM, Yocto)
- Experience working with Python, C, C++
- Experience managing software engineers with a track record of
planning, delivery and quality
- Excellent verbal and written communication skills in English
- A love of developing and growing people and a track record of
it
- Organised and able to ensure your team delivers timely, high
quality results
- Well-organised, self-starting and able to ensure your team
delivers to schedule
- Professional manner interacting with colleagues, partners, and
community
- Experience working with customers, going beyond resolving
their technical issues, to interpreting their business challenges and
effectively communicating how your solution will meet their needs
- High-quality, well-designed and well-documented software
experience
- Builds trust, relationships and confidence
- Solid experience working in an agile development environment
- Ability to travel twice a year, for company events up to two
weeks each
Additional skills we value
- Experience working with open source communities and licenses
- Experience with server technologies, including UEFI firmware,
GPU computing, RDMA/Infiniband and virtualization stacks (kvm, qemu,
libvirt)
- Experience with IoT / Embedded devices from firmware, boot
loaders and BSP enablement including hardware accelerators
- Experience with graphics stacks
- Experience with open source networking technologies (eBPF,
OVS, OVN, SoNIC, DPDK, SPDK, etc)
- Experience with container technologies such as LXD, Docker and
Kubernetes
- Understanding of security best practices and Secure Software
Development Lifecycles
- Experience designing and implementing CI/CD automation
platforms such as GitHub Actions
- Experience with performance benchmarking and profiling
How To Apply
