Ubuntu Engineering Delivery and Excellence Manager needed at Canonical

• As every engineering manager at Canonical, your role is technical but your focus is your team.
• You are expected to help them grow as engineers, do important and satisfying work, and work well with colleagues and the community.
• Technical leadership experience and experience as a software engineer are necessary prerequisites for this role.
• You will be expected to lead, challenge, and develop strong engineers, positively influence the culture, facilitate technical delivery, and work with your team on strategy and execution.

What you’ll do

• Define and monitor quality metrics for the most popular Linux distro in the world
• Set and manage expectations with other engineering teams, management, and external stakeholders
• Advocate and advance modern, agile software development practices
• Develop and evangelize great engineering and organizational practices
• Setup and maintain continuous integration for all supported deliverables
• Develop a team with a culture of high quality and performance
• Work from home with international travel twice per year for up to two weeks

Who you are

• You have a strong software engineering, Linux, and open source background
• Your technical knowledge includes C/C++, Python programming, and Shell scripting
• You have experience with quality processes and continuous integration tools and principles
• You have engineering management experience and enjoy growing people
• You are a strong proponent of data-driven decision making