Engineering Manager - Distributed Systems, Python / Go

Canonical is a leading provider of open source software and operating systems, including the Ubuntu platform widely used in public cloud, data science, AI, engineering innovation, and IoT. It is a founder-led, profitable, and growing company with over 1,200 colleagues distributed across 75+ countries, practicing global distributed collaboration with minimal office-based roles.

• Exceptional academic track record from high school and university
• Experience in leading, coaching, and mentoring software engineers
• Professional software engineering experience with Python or Go
• Expertise in distributed systems, cloud infrastructure, quality engineering, or related domains
• Strong knowledge of modern software testing processes, strategies, and automation
• Experience with Linux (Debian or Ubuntu preferred)
• Strong technical judgement with ability to engage in code reviews, architecture, and software design
• Experience working in agile development environments, organizing teams to deliver high-quality results
• Professional written and spoken English with excellent communication and presentation skills

• Lead, coach, and develop a high-performing team of software and quality engineers from graduate to senior levels
• Set clear expectations, strengthen engineering practices, and ensure timely delivery against goals
• Partner with senior engineers to shape technical strategy, architecture, roadmap, and engineering standards
• Guide development of automated testing infrastructure for reliability, interoperability, and resilience of distributed systems
• Improve CI pipelines, testing tools, and reporting across bare-metal, private, and public cloud environments
• Enable engineering teams to adopt effective distributed-systems testing practices and tooling
• Provide technical leadership via design and code reviews, debugging, and hands-on engineering where appropriate
• Represent the team with stakeholders and collaborate across Canonical on quality engineering, infrastructure, and developer experience

This is a globally remote role, typically leading a team concentrated within major time zones such as EMEA or the Americas. Ability to travel twice a year for company events up to two weeks each is required. Canonical is an equal opportunity employer committed to non-discrimination.