• As an engineering manager at Canonical your primary responsibility is to the people you support: ensuring that they are growing as engineers, doing valuable work, and generally having a great time at Canonical. As a lead for strong engineers, technical leadership and a solid background in software security is a must, so that you’re able to challenge and grow your team members. You will have the opportunity to influence the culture, facilitate technical delivery, and work with your team on strategy and execution.

Location: This is a Globally remote role

Key responsibilities

• Build and lead a globally distributed team of engineers through hiring, coaching, mentoring, feedback and hands-on career development
• Support timely delivery of technical solutions to address business needs
• Provide technical thought leadership for your team and others around Canonical
• Advocate and advance modern, agile software development practices
• Grow a healthy, collaborative engineering culture in line with the company values

What we are looking for

• Exceptional software engineering skills – design, document, plan, execute
• Demonstrated experience in managing or leading software engineering teams
• Demonstrated understanding in one or more of the following areas:
  • Secureboot or other UEFI capabilities
  • Code integrity primitives such as dm-verity
  • AppArmor, SELinux or other MAC modules
  • Confidential computing TEEs (Intel SGX, AMD SEV, arm TrustZone or similar)
• WIllingness to travel up to 4 times a year for internal events