Software Engineering Director

About the role

Lead multiple teams of engineers, ranging from graduate to senior.
Develop your engineering managers and maintain Canonical culture.
Hire staff level engineers for specific roles like performance and quality.
Coach, mentor, and offer career development feedback.
Identify and measure indicators of team health and productivity.
Ensure rounded delivery including community participation and docs.
Implement disciplined engineering processes and defend them.
Set and measure progress against benchmark goals for speed and efficiency.
Represent your product to stakeholders, partners, and customers.
Develop and evangelise great engineering and organisational practices.
Plan and manage progress on agreed goals and projects.

Responsibilities

• Lead multiple teams of engineers, ranging from graduate to senior.
• Develop your engineering managers and maintain Canonical culture.
• Hire staff level engineers for specific roles like performance and quality.
• Coach, mentor, and offer career development feedback.
• Identify and measure indicators of team health and productivity.
• Ensure rounded delivery including community participation and docs.
• Implement disciplined engineering processes and defend them.
• Set and measure progress against benchmark goals for speed and efficiency.
• Represent your product to stakeholders, partners, and customers.
• Develop and evangelise great engineering and organisational practices.
• Plan and manage progress on agreed goals and projects.

Requirements

We believe that open source is just starting to transform the tech sector and enterprise compute. Our goal is to make open source easier, more reliable and more secure for deployment and development. We strive to be the provider of 'most software to most companies'. To deliver on that ambition, our engineers are carefully selected from the applicants across the globe. We select for brilliance and motivation to take open source to the next level.

Qualifications

• An exceptional academic track record from both high school and university.
• An undergraduate degree in Computer Science or STEM, or a compelling narrative about your alternative path.
• Extensive management experience and confidence to set high expectations.
• An outstanding Linux based software engineering track record.
• A drive and a track record of going above-and-beyond expectations.
• Excellent verbal and written communication skills in English.
• Public speaking and presentation skills.
• A love of developing and growing people and a track record of it.
• Experience in leading, coaching and mentoring software developers.
• Organised and able to ensure your team delivers timely, high quality results.
• Well-organised, self-starting and able to deliver to schedule.
• A professional manner interacting with colleagues, partners, and community.
• You have advanced expertise in your own domain.
• You are knowledgeable and passionate about software development.
• You have solid experience working in an agile development environment.
• You have a demonstrated drive for continual learning.
• Builds trust, relationships and confidence.
• Result-oriented, with a personal drive to meet commitments.

Skills

• Ability to travel twice a year, for company events up to two weeks each.

Benefits

Personal learning and development budget of USD 2,000 per year.
Annual holiday leave.
Maternity and paternity leave.
Employee Assistance Programme.
Opportunity to travel to new locations to meet colleagues.
Priority Pass, and travel upgrades for long haul company events.

Pay

We consider geographical location, experience, and performance in shaping compensation worldwide. We revisit compensation annually (and more often for graduates and associates) to ensure we recognise outstanding performance. In addition to base pay, we offer a performance-driven annual bonus.

Schedule

The role is remote, with positions available in all time zones. It includes a requirement for global travel for twice per year, for trips up to two weeks long.