Senior Engineering Manager
Pubblicato il 01-08-2026 - Canonical in Italia
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. We are hiring an Engineering Manager for the MAAS (Metal as a Service) team. Our mission is to provide the best solution for building and running private bare‐metal infrastructure, putting a cloud‐style on‐demand API in front of physical server provisioning, network configuration, and storage. We seek engineering managers with experience in high‐quality software development, high‐performance team leadership, and deep familiarity with Linux on physical servers, Linux storage and data center networking capabilities. The MAAS team delivers our Metal As A Service hyperscale provisioning technology. MAAS is written in Python and Go. Its components span the entire software stack,
from low‐level hardware detection and provisioning to the upper‐level management web interface, API, and CLI.
Leading a distributed team of engineers in your time zone (we organise engineering teams by Americas, EMEA etc)
Talent development through coaching, mentoring, feedback and career planning
Setting and managing expectations with other engineering teams, senior management, and external stakeholders
Being an advocate of, and advancing, modern software development practices
Participating in the engineering process through code and architectural review
Travelling to internal and external global events for 4 to 6 weeks per year
Bachelor's degree (or equivalent) and a background in Computer Science
Exceptional academic track record from both high school and university
Proven experience delivering software using Python, Golang, or similar languages
Experience with Linux system administration (Debian or Ubuntu pre