Software Engineering Manager

Software Engineering Manager (Backend SaaS) Join to apply for the Software Engineering Manager (Backend SaaS) role at Canonical. 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 75+ 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. We are hiring an engineering manager to lead the reboot of our Landscape systems management solution for Ubuntu. Ubuntu is growing rapidly in the enterprise, with estates expanding from cloud to bare metal servers, to vSphere clusters. It is easy to deploy and configure, but difficult to know where you stand on policy and compliance, patch management, or access control across a large estate. Ubuntu is now becoming an official platform for many companies. Those enterprises want a high quality way to manage their Ubuntu estate. We started work on Landscape many years ago. Now we have the opportunity to invest significantly in a team to bring a fresh vision for large‑scale Ubuntu estate management to the project. This role is the critical engineering leadership role for that mission. We use Python, PostgreSQL, RabbitMQ, HAProxy, and have a ReactJS front end. Our next wave of Landscape engineering is an opportunity to raise the bar on SAAS and on‑prem solution technologies, architectures, patterns and operations. Our goal is to make it easy for enterprises to own a few Landscape instances that serve their global estate, and to be able to apply policy and know intuitively where they stand globally, in a very complex world. Key responsibilities Build and lead a team of engineers in your region. Develop talent through coaching, mentoring, feedback, and hands‑on career development. Demonstrate sound engineering principles and directly contribute toward your team's goals. Set and manage expectations with other engineering teams, management, and external stakeholders. Lead modern, agile software development practices. Ensure a healthy, collaborative engineering culture in line with the company values. Be an active part of the leadership team and collaborate with other leaders in the organization. Build automated, highly reliable image delivery, testing and publication pipelines. Engage with many other teams at Canonical, as well as the open source community and commercial partners. Work from home with global travel 4–6 weeks per year for internal and external events. Valued skills and experience You love to mentor, develop and grow people, and have a track record of doing it. You are knowledgeable and passionate about software development. You are focused on success and the delivery of timely, high quality software. You have experience and commitment to agile development methodologies. You have a Bachelor's or equivalent in Computer Science, STEM or similar degree. Software development experience in Python or Golang. Effective written and verbal communication skills. Practical experience with Linux system administration. What we offer colleagues Distributed work environment with twice-yearly team sprints in person. Personal learning and development budget of USD 2,000 per year. Annual compensation review. Recognition rewards. Annual holiday leave. Maternity and paternity leave. Team Member Assistance Program & Wellness Platform. Opportunity to travel to new locations to meet colleagues. Priority Pass and travel upgrades for long‑haul company events. Canonical is an equal opportunity employer. We are proud to foster a workplace free from discrimination. Diversity of experience, perspectives, and background create a better work environment and better products. Whatever your identity, we will give your application fair consideration. #J-18808-Ljbffr