Linux Enablement
Pubblicato il 12-09-2026 - Canonical in Italia
Linux Enablement - Software Engineering Manager
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Canonical's Device Delivery Team works with tier-1 OEM and ODM customers to pre-load Ubuntu Desktop and Ubuntu Core, bringing Ubuntu directly to millions of users.
As a Software Engineering Manager, you will lead and manage the software engineering team to deliver OEM enablement projects. This environment requires excellent time management, deep Linux system knowledge, low-level debugging skills, critical thinking, problem-solving abilities, and management experience.
Key responsibilities
- Recruit, motivate, mentor, and enable your team to succeed in delivering quality products.
- Set goals with the team; prioritize tasks; identify and measure team health indicators.
- Maximize the results of team members and support their career growth.
- Coordinate with project managers, HWE, QA, and certification management.
- Monitor projects from kickoff to post-mortem and handle escalations.
- Communicate, understand,
and resolve technical challenges with OEMs, ODMs, SiPs, IHVs.
- Prioritize customer requests globally.
- Collaborate with product engineering teams (including Desktop, Foundations, Kernel, and Security).
- Provide leadership for methodologies, strategies, standards, tools, and best practices.
- Must be able to travel to the EU, USA, China, and Taiwan.
Required Skills And Experience
- A Bachelor (or higher) degree in STEM, preferably in computer science or software engineering.
- Proven track record in technical roles with Linux, preferably Ubuntu or Debian.
- Commitment to development and testing methodologies, and maintainable code quality.
- Experience with management responsibilities.
- Ability to work collaboratively in a team environment.
- Ability to be productive in a globally distributed team through self-discipline and self-motivation.
- Commitment and energy to deliver on schedule.
- Strong English and Chinese langu