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Remote
Senior
Full Time
ObservabilityEngineering ManagerOpen SourceKubernetesLinuxDistributed TeamRemote
Requirements
- •Exceptional academic track record from high school and university
- •Proven track record of professional experience in software delivery
- •Professional software development experience, preferably with open source
- •Willingness to travel up to 4 times a year for internal events
- •Professional written and spoken English
- •Experience with Linux (Debian or Ubuntu preferred)
- •Excellent interpersonal skills, curiosity, flexibility, and accountability
- •Passion, thoughtfulness, and self-motivation
- •Excellent communication and presentation skills
- •Result-oriented with a personal drive to meet commitments
What You'll Do
- •Manage a distributed team of engineers and its observability portfolio
- •Organize and lead the team’s processes to help achieve objectives
- •Conduct one-on-one meetings with team members
- •Identify and measure team health indicators
- •Interact with a vibrant community
- •Review code produced by other engineers
- •Attend conferences to represent Canonical and its Observability Stack
- •Develop and review code as a leader
- •Ensure the team is focused, productive and unblocked
- •Help team members grow as engineers
- •Facilitate technical delivery
- •Collaborate with other Engineering Managers, product managers, and architects
- •Produce an engineering roadmap with ambitious and achievable goals
Nice to Have
- •Experience as an engineering manager with a track record of building great, high performance teams
- •Professional Python development experience
- •Working knowledge of Go
- •Open source contribution experience
- •Interest and experience with container technologies
- •Proven understanding of the importance of observability and monitoring for software reliability
- •Experience designing and implementing observability solutions
Benefits
- •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
