• As the identity team engineering manager you will bring significant software development experience, Kubernetes knowledge and a keen eye for software design, performance and security. You will be responsible for working with product management to define the technical vision for the products, managing the team backlog, reviewing code and coaching younger team members.
• You will be involved in all the aspects of the software development process: you will design software, write high-quality code and tests, provide insightful code reviews, write documentation and help to troubleshoot issues.
• In addition to the engineering behind the project itself, you’ll have the chance to work with industry-leading teams inside Canonical, ensuring your work is backed by rock-solid data stores, and highly observable using our Kubernetes-based Observability stack. You’ll work with broader open source communities, participating in “hackfest” events, webinars and conferences.

Who you are

• Proven experience hiring and leading a high performance software engineering team
• Expertise in Python and Go software development
• Ability to design and implement complex, distributed system
• Experience working with container technology and Kubernetes
• Strong understanding of software/infrastructure security and performance
• Experience designing and/or operating large scale distributed systems
• Knowledge of identity and access management technologies and standards is desirable but not essential