Engineering Manager, Canonical

Data Platform

Salary not provided
SQL
Kubernetes
Python
Postgres
MySQL
BigQuery
Golang
Senior level
Remote in Canada, EU, UK, US
Canonical

Enterprise open source solutions

Job no longer available

Canonical

Enterprise open source solutions

1001+ employees

B2CEnterpriseInternal toolsDevOps

Job no longer available

Salary not provided
SQL
Kubernetes
Python
Postgres
MySQL
BigQuery
Golang
Senior level
Remote in Canada, EU, UK, US

1001+ employees

B2CEnterpriseInternal toolsDevOps

Company mission

Canonical's mission is to make open source software available to people everywhere.

Role

Who you are

  • A software engineering background, preferably with Python and Golang experience
  • Experience running in production and at scale, preferably Big Data or MySQL
  • Excellent judgement about people - their motivations, abilities, developmental needs, and prospects for success
  • Proven ability to build high-quality, open-source software
  • Proven to drive good engineering practices around performance and quality
  • An open-minded attitude to new technologies and the drive to push the boundaries of what is possible
  • The ambition to build products that improve how people operate software and infrastructure everywhere
  • Love developing and growing people and have a track record of doing it
  • Knowledgeable and passionate about software development

Desirable

  • Specialist knowledge in one or more of Spark, Superset, MySQL, or similar
  • Prior experience working with open source and a will to build products with the community

What the job involves

  • We are looking for technical Engineering Managers to lead teams focused on Big Data and MySQL databases
  • We write code in Python and encode modern operational practices for data applications at scale on Kubernetes and cloud machines
  • You will lead a team building scalable data solutions for Kubernetes and cloud machines
  • You will hire, coach, mentor, provide feedback, and lead your team by example
  • You will demonstrate sound engineering skill by directly contributing code when needed
  • Effectively set and manage expectations with other engineering teams, senior management, and external stakeholders
  • Advocate modern, agile software development practices
  • Develop and evangelize great engineering and organizational practices
  • Ensure that your team delivers excellent products that users love by maintaining a culture of quality and engineering excellence
  • Grow a healthy, collaborative engineering culture aligned with the company’s values
  • Be an active part of the leadership team and collaborate with other leaders in the organization
  • Work from home with global travel twice yearly, for internal events of one or two weeks duration

Otta's take

Theo Margolius headshot

Theo Margolius

COO of Otta

Canonical originally started as a company to help distribute Ubuntu (an operating system based on Linux). It is now a leader in delivering open source to the world quickly, securely and cost effectively.

With a community of 200,000, Canonical publishes an operating system which runs from the tiny connected devices up to the world's biggest mainframes, the platform that everybody uses on the public cloud, and the workstation experience of the world's most productive developers. Just some of its partners include Microsoft, HP, Dell, aws, and Intel.

The founder has highlighted that Canonical's biggest challenge has been that demand is bigger than the company’s ability to service it. Originally a not-for-profit, Canonical is now monetising and is planning to go public. It also announced its product Ubuntu has a comprehensive subscription version called Ubuntu Pro, likely to aid monetising efforts.

Insights

Many candidates hear
back within 2 weeks

18% female employees

19% employee growth in 12 months

Company

Funding (1 round)

Aug 2013

$9.8m

EARLY VC

Total funding: $9.8m

Company benefits

  • Work from home opportunities
  • Health insurance
  • Learning and personal professional development budget
  • Annual compensation review
  • Recognition rewards
  • Annual leave
  • Generous parental leave
  • Priority Pass for travel

Company values

  • Truly distributed: Exceptional, self-motivated, organised and passionate people deserve the freedom to live where they want. Our teams travel regularly to meet colleagues and customers.
  • Best in class: We rate top for Linux security. We run more hosts, more workloads and more devices than anybody else, because we strive to do everything insightfully, properly, fairly, and openly
  • Enterprise focused: The world is moving to Ubuntu – open source that's faster, cheaper and better. Empower engineers, secure precious data, share knowledge and lead the change

Company HQ

Southwark, London

Founders

Serial entrepreneur. Previously founded Thawte Consulting (sold to VeriSign for $575m)

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