Senior Engineering Manager
Pubblicato il 21-08-2026 - Altro 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. The company is a pioneer of global distributed collaboration, with 1200+ colleagues in more than 80 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. The company is founder led, profitable and growing. 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. 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
Engaging with broader teams at Canonical, the open source community and partners
Bachelor's degree (or equivalent) and a back