Ubuntu Engineering Lead

Ubuntu Engineering Lead

Canonical is a leading provider of open source software and operating systems to the global enterprise and technology markets. Our platform, Ubuntu, is widely used in breakthrough enterprise initiatives such as public cloud, data science, AI, engineering innovation and IoT. Our customers include the world's leading public cloud and silicon providers, and industry leaders in many sectors. Canonical is a pioneer of global distributed collaboration, with 1200+ colleagues in 75+ countries and very few office‑based roles. Teams meet two to four times yearly in person, in interesting locations around the world, to align on strategy and execution.

We are hiring engineering leaders to work across the breadth of our Ubuntu Engineering organization – leaders who care deeply for quality, performance and resilience in software, and have a proven track record for building, nurturing and developing high‑performing engineering teams. Managers stay technical and close to the code, while senior engineers lead and develop software projects, as well as the processes and people around them.

Responsibilities

• Lead, challenge, and develop strong engineers, positively influence the culture, facilitate technical delivery, and work with your team on strategy and execution.
• Lead your team in elevating the Linux developer and user experience.
• Design, build, and ship high quality, performant software in Rust, Go, and Python.
• Demonstrate sound engineering principles through architecture, development, and code reviews.
• Take responsibility for planning, estimation, and execution.
• Work with product management to define the vision and strategy for Ubuntu.
• Set expectations with other engineering teams, senior management, and external stakeholders.
• Offer coaching, mentoring, technical feedback, and hands‑on career development.
• Contribute to upstream and neighboring open source projects.
• Optimize the distribution for performance, reliability, and security.
• Debug complex system‑level issues and deliver robust solutions.
• Author and improve technical and community documentation.

Qualifications

Nice‑to‑have

Benefits

Location

Remote roles open in every time zone.

Equal Opportunity

Canonical is an equal opportunity employer. We are proud to foster a workplace free from discrimination. Diversity of experience, perspectives, and background create a better work environment and better products. Whatever your identity, we will give your application fair consideration.

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