Canonical – We deliver open source to the world faster, more securely, and more cost-effectively than any other company. We develop Ubuntu, the world’s most popular enterprise Linux from cloud to edge, together with a passionate global community of 200,000 contributors. Ubuntu means ‘humanity to others. We chose it because it embodies the generosity at the heart of open source, the new normal for platforms and innovation. Together with a community of 200,000, we publish an operating system that runs from the tiny connected devices up to the world’s biggest mainframes, the platform that everybody uses on the public cloud, and the workstation experience of the world’s most productive developers. Secure and reliable, elegant and intuitive, and open for innovation – Ubuntu is the future of open source, which is why it’s the fastest-growing Linux in the world despite already being the most widely deployed.
We are recruiting to fill the position below:
Job Title: Senior Engineering Manager, Sustaining Software Engineering
Location: Nigeria
Job Summary
- As an engineering manager in the Sustaining Engineering team, your primary responsibility is to the people you support: ensuring that they are growing as engineers, making valuable contributions, and generally having a great experience at Canonical.
- Technical leadership and a solid background in software development is a must, so that you are able to help your team members grow professionally.
- You will have the opportunity to influence the culture, facilitate technical delivery, and work with your team on strategy and execution.
What your day will look like
- Manage and lead a distributed team of engineers
- Hire, coach, mentor, provide feedback and career development guidance to your team
- Manage shift scheduling, measuring key performance indicators (KPIs), and training
- Support timely delivery of bug fixes, patches, and other technical solutions to address business needs in a variety of technology fields, including but not limited to Ubuntu, OpenStack, Ceph, Kubernetes, Juju & MAAS
- Demonstrate the very best of Canonical in customer interactions
- Set and manage expectations with other engineering teams, senior management, and external stakeholders
- Advocate and advance modern software development practices
- Grow a healthy, collaborative engineering culture in line with the company value
- Collaborate with other teams in the organisation
- Work from home with global travel up to 10% for internal and external events
What we are looking for in you
- You have interest and deep experience with three or more of the following: Ubuntu Linux – kernel or userspace, Kubernetes, OpenStack, Ceph, QEMU/KVM, LXC/LXD, Postgresql, Mongo, deb or snap packaging
- Professional software delivery experience using C, C++, Go, Python, or similar
- You are knowledgeable and passionate about software development
- Leadership experience displaying ability to organise and prioritise complex problem resolution and bug fixes
- Experience with version control systems such as git
- Experience with debugging tools such as gdb, crash or other
- Demonstrated strong commitment to testing methodologies and maintainable code quality
- Excellent communication skills in the English language, both verbal and written
- Experience with Linux, with a preference towards Ubuntu
- Experience with Open Source and Open Source Business Models
- People management experience in a support organisation is a strong plus
Application Closing Date
Not Specified.
How to Apply
Interested and qualified candidate should:
Click here to apply online
Job Title: Regional Marketing Specialist
Location: Nigeria
Description
- Canonical is looking for regional marketing specialists who will be responsible for developing long-term marketing strategy and executing campaigns for specific territories across EMEA and Americas across a diverse range of products and industries to support our growth strategy.
- This is a hands-on, multi-disciplinary and dynamic position, requiring close collaboration with the regional Sales Teams, the Partner & Alliances Teams, Product Teams, and other Marketing functions.
- The ideal candidate is passionate about technology, technology marketing and the use of technology in marketing.
- They prefer to work in an environment that emphasises ownership of campaigns, collaboration, learning, curiosity and a drive to continually improve oneself / the team / the organisation.
- They love to problem solve, get hands-on, experiment, measure and use automation to make daily life easier.
- This role will be based remotely in the EMEA region and reports to the EMEA and Americas regional marketing team manager.
Responsibilities
What your day will look like:
- Develop and execute go-to-market strategy for certain industries within the Americas region
- Set relevant KPIs for lead generation, demand generation and brand awareness campaigns; monitor and improve them on a regular basis
- Build organic and paid campaigns from scratch including crafting strong messaging, and creating visual assets for emails, social media and paid ads in line with canonical’s brand look & feel
- Own webinars and regional offline events at all stages from planning to execution including holistic pre- and post-event/webinar strategies, webinar set up, streaming
- Work with the CRM Team to attract, convert, engage and communicate with new and existing audiences
- Be fully responsible for the regional budget planning and execution constantly monitoring and adjusting it accordingly
- Collaborate extensively with regional Sales teams to get their insights and implement them to the regional marketing strategy
- We expect members of the Canonical marketing team to be excellent communicators who are at ease working with a complex mix of engineers, product managers, sales representatives and executives.
Requirements
What we are looking for in you:
- Experience in B2B marketing for enterprise IT products, SaaS experience…
- Experience working with the Americas market including the US, Canada and Latin America preferred
- Excellent academic results, with Bachelor’s or equivalent in Business, Marketing, or STEM
- Excellent verbal, written, presentation skills in English
- Hands-on mindset and ability to test various marketing assumptions attributing to scaling the most efficient ways of achieving positive marketing results
- Growth mindset – enthusiasm for challenges and work ethic with a ‘can do’ attitude
- Objectivity and openness to others’ views while continuously building a positive team spirit
- Proven ability to prioritise and meet deadlines without sacrificing quality
What we offer you
- Your base pay will depend on various factors including your geographical location, level of experience, knowledge and skills.
- In addition to the benefits above, certain roles are also eligible for additional benefits and rewards including annual bonuses and sales incentives based on revenue or utilisation. Our compensation philosophy is to ensure equity right across our global workforce.
- In addition to a competitive base pay, we provide all team members with additional benefits, which reflect our values and ideals. Please note that additional benefits may apply depending on the work location and, for more information on these, please ask your Talent Partner.
- Fully remote working environment – we’ve been working remotely since 2004!
- Personal learning and development budget of 2,000USD per annum
- Annual compensation review
- Recognition rewards
- Annual holiday leave
- Parental Leave
- Employee Assistance Programme
- Opportunity to travel to new locations to meet colleagues at ‘sprints’
- Priority Pass for travel and travel upgrades for long haul company events
Application Closing Date
Not Specified.
How to Apply
Interested and qualified candidate should:
Click here to apply online
Job Title: Graduate Sales Development Representative
Location: Nigeria
What your day will look like
- Handle inbound customer inquiries across email, phone and chat
- Execute outbound sales & marketing campaigns
- Travel to events and conferences worldwide, presenting on booths and driving face-to-face marketing and sales opportunities
- Collaborate across multiple teams and senior stakeholders to drive results
- Work directly with marketing on campaigns
- Research information about prospective customers
- Generate a multi-million pound pipeline
- Identify prospects and market trends
- Help define the processes and policies for the team
- Liaise with new and existing customers, setting up and attending meetings whilst actively mapping accounts to identify new opportunities
- Accurately create, update, maintain and nurture leads on global opportunities
What we are looking for in you
- Excellent academic results at school and university
- Passion for business and technology
- Commitment to continuous learning and improvement – curious, flexible, scientific
- Creative problem solving and cross team collaboration
- Verbal and written communication skills
- Result driven with an over-achiever spirit
- Persistence & perseverance.
Application Closing Date
Not Specified.
How to Apply
Interested and qualified candidate should:
Click here to apply online
Job Title: B2B Event Specialist
Location: Nigeria
Description
- Canonical is looking for B2B event specialists who will be responsible for developing a long-term event strategy and executing various events across EMEA and Americas.
- This is a hands-on, multi-disciplinary and dynamic position, requiring close collaboration with the regional Sales Teams, the Partner & Alliances Teams, Product Marketing Teams, Design Teams and other Marketing functions.
- The ideal candidate is passionate about technology, technology marketing and the use of technology in marketing.
- They prefer to work in an environment that emphasises ownership of campaigns, collaboration, learning, curiosity and a drive to continually improve oneself / the team / the organisation.
- They love to problem solve, get hands-on, experiment, measure and use automation to make daily life easier.
- This role will be based remotely in the EMEA region and reports to the VP of Marketing.
Responsibilities
What your day will look like:
- Maintain list of events Canonial should participate in based on primary research and input from team members.
- Set relevant KPIs to measure individual event effectiveness and justify spend
- Source best possible deals to maximise visiblity and minimse costs
- Provide full logistic support to all events globally with occasional travel to major events
- Be responsible for the event budget planning and execution constantly monitoring and adjusting it accordingly
- Create systems to measurably improve event effectiveness over time
- We expect members of the Canonical marketing team to be excellent communicators who are at ease working with a complex mix of engineers, product managers, sales representatives and executives.
What we are looking for in you
- Experience in B2B events organisation (trade show, customer events, webinar…)
- Excellent academic results, with Bachelor’s or equivalent in Business, Marketing, or STEM
- Excellent verbal, written, and presentation skills in English
- Hands-on mindset and a passion for experimentation
- Growth mindset – enthusiasm for challenges and work ethic with a ‘can do’ attitude
- Objectivity and openness to others’ views while continuously building a positive team spirit
- Proven ability to prioritise and meet deadlines without sacrificing quality
What we offer you
- Your base pay will depend on various factors including your geographical location, level of experience, knowledge and skills.
- In addition to the benefits above, certain roles are also eligible for additional benefits and rewards including annual bonuses and sales incentives based on revenue or utilisation. Our compensation philosophy is to ensure equity right across our global workforce.
- In addition to a competitive base pay, we provide all team members with additional benefits, which reflect our values and ideals. Please note that additional benefits may apply depending on the work location and, for more information on these, please ask your Talent Partner.
- Fully remote working environment – we’ve been working remotely since 2004!
- Personal learning and development budget of 2,000USD per annum
- Annual compensation review
- Recognition rewards
- Annual holiday leave
- Parental Leave
- Employee Assistance Programme
- Opportunity to travel to new locations to meet colleagues at ‘sprints’
- Priority Pass for travel and travel upgrades for long-haul company events.
Application Closing Date
Not Specified.
How to Apply
Interested and qualified candidate should:
Click here to apply online
Job Title: Software Engineer, Ceph & Distributed Storage
Location: Nigeria
What your day will look like
- Write high quality, rigorously designed Python and Golang software
- Collaborate proactively with a globally distributed team
- Debug issues and produce high quality code to fix them
- Contribute to technical documentation that define best practices for authoring high quality operators
- Discuss ideas and collaborate on finding good solutions
- Develop and maintain software for delivery, operations and life-cycle management of Ceph storage
What we are looking for in you
- You have a Bachelor’s or equivalent in Computer Science, STEM or similar degree
- You have experience with writing modern, maintainable Python
- You have experience with Ceph storage
- You love technology and working with brilliant people
- You are curious, flexible, articulate, and accountable
- You value soft skills and are passionate, enterprising, thoughtful, and self-motivated
- You have interest and experience with two or more of the following: Linux, Kubernetes, Public cloud, OpenStack, LXC/LXD, Python, Go, Debian packaging
- An exceptional academic track record from both high school and preferably university
- Willingness to travel up to 4 times a year for internal events
Additional Skills That You Might Also Bring:
- Experience operating Ceph clusters in production
- Experience with open source distributed storage such as Gluster, Minio, Mayastor or similar.
What we offer you
- We consider geographical location, experience, and performance in shaping compensation worldwide.
- We revisit compensation annually (and more often for graduates and associates) to ensure we recognise outstanding performance.
- In addition to base pay, we offer a performance-driven annual bonus.
- We provide all team members with additional benefits, which reflect our values and ideals.
- We balance our programs to meet local needs and ensure fairness globally.
- Distributed work environment with twice-yearly team sprints in person – we’ve been working remotely since 2004!
- Personal learning and development budget of USD 2,000 per year
- Annual compensation review
- Recognition rewards
- Annual holiday leave
- Maternity and paternity leave
- Employee Assistance Programme
- Opportunity to travel to new locations to meet colleagues from your team and others
- Priority Pass for travel and travel upgrades for long haul company events.
Application Closing Date
Not Specified.
How to Apply
Interested and qualified candidate should:
Click here to apply online
Job Title: Graduate Customer Success Manager
Location: Nigeria
Description
The role of a Customer Success Manager at Canonical:
- Customer success is a new and strategic department at Canonical, with the objective to reduce risk and churn, facilitate the adoption of new products or services and support expansion within existing accounts.
- Customer Success Managers (CSM) are responsible for developing trust with their assigned customers and providing them with the best possible experience navigating Canonical’s vast offering.
- Through a clear understanding of their customer’s objectives, the CSM can activate a large range of internal and external capabilities to alleviate any pain point, align expectations, as well as help draw and deliver on an appropriate collaboration roadmap.
- We are growing our Customer Success team to continue offering thoughtful, smart, precise interactions across our product portfolio, from Ubuntu to open source infrastructure and applications.
- This role is a first step in the CSM organisation. Although you will primarily focus on the Tech segment, including the store customers, you will also have a portfolio assigned. Ubuntu is chosen by thousands of new users every month.
- Our responsibility is to ensure the best user experience for them through problem-solving, onboarding, enablement and value realisation all the way to success.
- Collaborating with other teams and participating in campaign efforts, you will connect with a diverse set of users of Canonical products and identify our future champions.
- Location: This role will be based remotely worldwide.
Responsibilities
What your day will look like
- A strong focus on supporting customers by finding solutions to ticket requests.
- Enrich documentation about problem solving, Q&A, onboarding materials.
- Drive campaigns targeting multiple customers through digital touch-points and activities.
- Identify high potential as well as high risk customers from newly onboarded users or customers
- Onboard new customers and introduce them to our products and support processes. Products include: Ubuntu Pro, MAAS, Landscape, Openstack, Ceph, Kubernetes, data applications and many more.
- Collaborate with Sales and Support in developing and delivering engagement plans that fulfill the customer’s objectives.
- Engage with your portfolio of customers to ensure risk identification
- Collect feedback from customers and format them for review by the product team
Requirements
What we are looking for in you:
- Customer-facing experience
- An empathetic individual with a natural drive to help others
- Passion for technology, infrastructure and Ubuntu in particular is a must
- Excellent presentation skills
- Strong organisational skills, ability to structure and constantly update documentation
- A team player capable of interacting with all departments internally
Additional skills that you might also bring:
- We at the Customer Success team strongly appreciate various languages! Therefore, if you possess proficiency (both written and spoken) in Japanese, Korean, Spanish, Portuguese, German, French, or Italian, alongside an excellent command of English, please inform us!
What We Offer You
- We consider geographical location, experience, and performance in shaping compensation worldwide. We revisit compensation annually (and more often for graduates and associates) to ensure we recognise outstanding performance.
- In addition to base pay, we offer a performance-driven annual bonus. We provide all team members with additional benefits, which reflect our values and ideals. We balance our programs to meet local needs and ensure fairness globally.
- Distributed work environment with twice-yearly team sprints in person – we’ve been working remotely since 2004!
- Personal learning and development budget of USD 2,000 per year
- Annual compensation review
- Recognition rewards
- Annual holiday leave
- Maternity and paternity leave
- Employee Assistance Programme
- Opportunity to travel to new locations to meet colleagues from your team and others
- Priority Pass for travel and travel upgrades for long haul company events
Application Closing Date
Not Specified.
How to Apply
Interested and qualified candidates should:
Click here to apply online
Job Title: Product Marketing Manager, Security
Location: Nigeria (Remote)
Job type: Full time
What your day will look like
- Be responsible for go-to-market planning and execution for Canonical’s range of security and compliance products
- Lead on content dissemination planning, campaign development and planning for planning product launches.
- You will lead on the development of compelling messaging and positioning that emphasizes business value and connects with target audiences throughout the buying journey
- Conceiving and executing customer base communications and marketing programs to upsell and cross sell into our large base of customers
- Collaborating with demand generation teams, utilizing data and insights to create and improve strategies that drive traffic to our content, optimizing marketing funnels
- Work with other teams to plan event, webinars and support paid and social media promotion
- Create and publish content (online and print) in line with marketing plans to deliver on campaigns
- Monitoring the competitive landscape to define product positioning that differentiates
What we are looking for in you
- Experience in a product marketing function for enterprise IT products (SaaS experience preferred)
- Passion for the cybersecurity industry and cybersecurity marketing
- Strong inter-personal management skills.
- Proven analytical skills, able to assess opportunities and make decisions on ROI/advantages of programs & investments.
- Appetite to deliver strong results and innovation.
- Growth mindset – someone who is not afraid to think big and take on risk.
- Willingness to roll up their sleeves.
- Exceptional verbal and written communication skills.
- Ability to work and thrive in a self-starter, fast-paced and changing environment
- Love for diverse work assignments and the opportunity to try new approaches.
What we offer you
- Your base pay will depend on various factors including your geographical location, level of experience, knowledge and skills. In addition to the benefits above, certain roles are also eligible for additional benefits and rewards including annual bonuses and sales incentives based on revenue or utilisation.
- Our compensation philosophy is to ensure equity right across our global workforce.
- In addition to a competitive base pay, we provide all team members with additional benefits, which reflect our values and ideals
- Fully remote working environment – we’ve been working remotely since 2004!
- Personal learning and development budget of 2,000USD per annum
- Annual compensation review
- Recognition rewards
- Annual holiday leave
- Parental Leave
- Employee Assistance Programme
- Opportunity to travel to new locations to meet colleagues at ‘sprints’
- Priority Pass for travel and travel upgrades for long haul company events.
Application Closing Date
Not Specified.
How to Apply
Interested and qualified candidates should:
Click here to apply online
Job Title: Events Marketing Manager
Location: Nigeria
Description
- Canonical is looking for an Events Marketing Manager who will be responsible for developing a long-term event strategy and executing various events across EMEA and Americas.
- This is a hands-on, multi-disciplinary and dynamic position, requiring close collaboration with the regional Sales Teams, the Partner & Alliances Teams, Product Marketing Teams, Design Teams and other Marketing functions.
- The ideal candidate is passionate about technology, technology marketing and the use of technology in marketing.
- They prefer to work in an environment that emphasises ownership of campaigns, collaboration, learning, curiosity and a drive to continually improve oneself / the team / the organisation.
- They love to problem solve, get hands-on, experiment, measure and use automation to make daily life easier.
- This role will be based remotely in the EMEA region and reports to the VP of Marketing.
Responsibilities
What your day will look like:
- Maintain list of events Canonial should participate in based on primary research and input from team members.
- Set relevant KPIs to measure individual event effectiveness and justify spend
- Source best possible deals to maximise visiblity and minimse costs
- Provide full logistic support to all events globally with occasional travel to major events
- Be responsible for the event budget planning and execution constantly monitoring and adjusting it accordingly
- Create systems to measurably improve events effectiveness over time
- We expect members of the Canonical marketing team to be excellent communicators who are at ease working with a complex mix of engineers, product managers, sales representatives and executives.
Requirements
What we are looking for in you:
- Experience in B2B events organisation (trade show, customer events, webinar…)
- Excellent academic results, with Bachelor’s or equivalent in Business, Marketing, or STEM
- Excellent verbal, written, presentation skills in English
- Hands-on mindset and a passion for experimentation
- Growth mindset – enthusiasm for challenges and work ethic with a ‘can do’ attitude
- Objectivity and openness to others’ views while continuously building a positive team spirit
- Proven ability to prioritise and meet deadlines without sacrificing quality
What We Offer You
- Your base pay will depend on various factors including your geographical location, level of experience, knowledge and skills.
- In addition to the benefits above, certain roles are also eligible for additional benefits and rewards including annual bonuses and sales incentives based on revenue or utilisation. Our compensation philosophy is to ensure equity right across our global workforce.
- In addition to a competitive base pay, we provide all team members with additional benefits, which reflect our values and ideals. Please note that additional benefits may apply depending on the work location and, for more information on these, please ask your Talent Partner.
- Fully remote working environment – we’ve been working remotely since 2004!
- Personal learning and development budget of 2,000USD per annum
- Annual compensation review
- Recognition rewards
- Annual holiday leave
- Parental Leave
- Employee Assistance Programme
- Opportunity to travel to new locations to meet colleagues at ‘sprints’
- Priority Pass for travel and travel upgrades for long haul company events
Application Closing Date
Not Specified.
How to Apply
Interested and qualified candidate should:
Click here to apply online
Job Title: Developer Relations Engineer
Location: Nigeria
Employment Type: Full-time
What Your Day Will Look Like
In a typical day, a developer relations engineer might:
- take part in team product meetings, at levels from strategy to day-by-day development progress, contributing insight and expertise
- maintain conversations with developer community members wherever they may be found – IRC, social media, product forums, meet-ups and more
- work with colleagues in other teams in the company, as part of efforts to help establish commonality and consistent approaches
- help solve specific technical problems that users or colleagues have identified
- contribute to technical documentation to ensure that developer users’ needs are met there
- work on technical articles, presentations or workshops
- identify new opportunities and directions for improvement in the developer experience we provide
- present at conferences, meetups or technical events
What we are looking for in you
A strong candidate:
- Is a programmer or developer with a demonstrable passion for and engagement in open-source software
- Has worked with real-world challenges developing and deploying software using Linux
- Has practical hands-on experience of Linux software packaging (including Snaps, debs, charms, rocks, PIP, containers)
- Understands current software packing issues and trends in the Linux ecosystem
- Has been a contributor to open-source communities, software and documentation
- Is an engaging, vivacious speaker and presenter
- Can work effectively, tactfully, empathetically and confidently in contexts where different parties have different perspectives, needs and understanding
- Builds trust, relationships and confidence
- Is willing to travel globally twice a year for company events, as well as to upstream and partner events
Additional Skills That You Might Also Bring:
- previous experience in a developer advocacy or community role
- in-depth familiarity with Ubuntu and the Canonical ecosystem of products.
Application Closing Date
Not Specified.
How to Apply
Interested and qualified candidates should:
Click here to apply online
Job Title: Software Engineer – OpenStack
Location: Nigeria
Employment Type: Full-Time
What You’ll Do
- Collaborate proactively with a distributed team
- Write high quality code to create new features
- Debug issues and produce high quality code to fix them
- Review code produced by other engineers
- Discuss ideas and collaborate on finding good solutions
- Ensure the success of OpenStack and Ceph on multiple architectures
- Work from home with global travel 2 to 4 weeks for internal and external events
Who You Are
- You have a Bachelor’s or equivalent in Computer Science, STEM or similar Degree
- You love technology and working with brilliant people
- You are curious, flexible, articulate, and accountable
- You value soft skills and are passionate, enterprising, thoughtful, and self-motivated
- You have experience with Python
- You have interest and experience with two or more of the following:Ubuntu Linux – kernel or userspace, Kubernetes, OpenStack, Ceph, AI/ML, QEMU/KVM, LXC/LXD, Python, Go, C, Postgresql, Mongo, Debian packaging, scalable web services
- You have experience with non-x86 architectures, including s390, arm64, power and others
- You have experience with OpenStack, OVN, Openvswitch and other related cloud technologies.
Application Closing Date
Not Specified.
How to Apply
Interested and qualified candidates should:
Click here to apply online
Job Title: Software Engineer – Python and K8s
Location: Lagos
Employment Type: Full-Time
What You’ll Do
- Work in Python to design and deliver open source software operations code
- Work across the entire Linux stack, from kernel, networking, storage, to applications
- Learn to think rigorously about application and infrastructure reliability
- Shape high quality open source monitoring and alerting infrastructure
- Simplify open source operations for our customers and open source community
- Demonstrate sound engineering design and testing principles in your code
- Follow agile software development practices
- Coach and develop your colleagues where you have insights
- Grow a healthy, collaborative engineering culture in line with company values
- Work from home with global travel once or twice a year for up to 2 weeks for events
Who You Are
- You have a Bachelor’s Degree or equivalent in Computer Science, STEM or similar Degree
- You love technology and working with brilliant people
- You are experienced with Linux systems administration, package management, and operations
- You have hands-on experience with at least one public cloud
- You are familiar with Docker and Kubernetes
- You are an experienced Python programmer and enjoy challenging projects
- You understand the importance of reliable software and strive to design and code to that expectation
- You are organized and want your team to deliver timely, high quality software.
Application Closing Date
Not Specified.
How to Apply
Interested and qualified candidates should:
Click here to apply online
Job Title: Ubuntu Engineering Delivery and Excellence Manager
Location: Nigeria
Job Description
- We are looking for an engineering manager for our Ubuntu Quality Engineering team, with an impactful mission to take Linux distro quality to a new level through automation and large-scale data analysis.
- As the Ubuntu Quality Engineering Manager, you must be an experienced engineer who has built large-scale software quality assurance frameworks, is passionate about the future of Ubuntu, mindful of the dynamics of the open source ecosystem, and equally aware of mission-critical requirements related to shipping the best Linux distro to users and partners world-wide.
- You will work closely with the various teams involved in creating Ubuntu and influence their practices to improve quality in every step of Ubuntu engineering. Your goal is to rethink the way a Linux distro approaches quality – bringing together automation, third-party analysis tooling, feedback loops from the community and user base, and our own test capabilities.
- Your team will monitor, develop and improve the quality of the Ubuntu System, to drive quality excellence and best DevOps practices among Ubuntu Desktop, Server, Containers and VM at package, system, and cluster levels.
- As every engineering manager at Canonical, your role is technical but your focus is your team. You are expected to help them grow as engineers, do important and satisfying work, and work well with colleagues and the community.
- Technical leadership experience and experience as a software engineer are necessary prerequisites for this role. You will be expected to lead, challenge, and develop strong engineers, positively influence the culture, facilitate technical delivery, and work with your team on strategy and execution.
Responsibilities
What you’ll do:
- Define and monitor quality metrics for the most popular Linux distro in the world
- Set and manage expectations with other engineering teams, management, and external stakeholders
- Advocate and advance modern, agile software development practices
- Develop and evangelize great engineering and organizational practices
- Setup and maintain continuous integration for all supported deliverables
- Develop a team with a culture of high quality and performance
- Work from home with international travel twice per year for up to two weeks
Requirements
Who you are:
- You have a strong software engineering, Linux, and open source background
- Your technical knowledge includes C/C++, Python programming, and Shell scripting
- You have experience with quality processes and continuous integration tools and principles
- You have engineering management experience and enjoy growing people
- You are a strong proponent of data-driven decision making
Valued additional experience:
- A good understanding of Debian packaging and snaps will be valuable
- Familiarity with an agile development environment
What we offer you
- We consider geographical location, experience, and performance in shaping compensation worldwide. We revisit compensation annually (and more often for graduates and associates) to ensure we recognise outstanding performance.
- In addition to base pay, we offer a performance-driven annual bonus. We provide all team members with additional benefits, which reflect our values and ideals. We balance our programs to meet local needs and ensure fairness globally.
- Distributed work environment with twice-yearly team sprints in person – we’ve been working remotely since 2004!
- Personal learning and development budget of USD 2,000 per year
- Annual compensation review
- Recognition rewards
- Annual holiday leave
- Maternity and paternity leave
- Employee Assistance Programme
- Opportunity to travel to new locations to meet colleagues from your team and others
- Priority Pass for travel and travel upgrades for long haul company events.
Application Closing Date
Not Specified.
How to Apply
Interested and qualified candidates should:
Click here to apply online
Job Title: Senior Web Engineer
Location: Nigeria
The Role
- The Web and design team works as a multidisciplinary inclusive team with world-class user researchers, UX designers, visual designers and web engineers. We work collaboratively with many teams and roles across the organisation including product managers and other engineering teams.
- Senior Web Engineer’s help drive best practices across the team, for all disciplines, bringing great ideas to the table to lead technical conversations.
- They identify risks and communicate them to relevant stakeholders, asking the right questions to move a project forward.
- Within the team there are fantastic opportunities to gain deep technical knowledge of complex products in innovative and fast-growing areas of the tech world with space and support to hone your craft. We value transparency, intellectual honesty and teamwork.
What you will do
- Learning and teaching: Coaching, mentoring and providing feedback to more junior members of the team, while always developing yourself.
- Ownership: Plan and manage progress on agreed goals and projects.
- Communication: You’ll manage incoming requests for updates and liaise with or delegate to other people as necessary.
- Standards: You’ll ensure the standard of our team’s output remains high and consistent across our whole product portfolio.
- Consistency: You’ll ensure new pages are published according to specification and in compliance with our design system.
- Culture: Foster a healthy, collaborative engineering culture in line with the company values.
- Collaboration: Work closely with UX designers and visual designers to implement exemplary user experiences.
- Celebrate: Celebrate success with your team, and learn from mistakes.
- Love what you do.
Who you are
- Demonstrable experience, working on modern web applications, such as React.
- Deep working knowledge of HTML, SCSS, and JavaScript.
- Good understanding of server-side languages, such as Python.
- Experience with Git or other version control systems.
- Consideration of accessibility in all aspects of your work.
- Experience with analysing and improving web performance in complex user interfaces.
- An excellent communicator with the ability to interact with other members of the team.
- Exceptional product delivery experience.
- Based in the EMEA timezone (Europe, the Middle East and Africa).
We offer
- Remote first: 100% remote working with the opportunity to travel to Sprints. We meet a couple of times a year in interesting places all around the world to come together to collaborate. These Sprints see circa 300 people come together. This year we have travelled to Frankfurt, Copenhagen, Montreal and Prague!
- Personal development: Annual budget allowance and time to focus on areas you want to improve.
- Compensation: eligibility for annual pay review including bonuses.
- Recognition: The ability to possibly be rewarded and recognised by others for the work you do.
- Travel: Priority Pass for lounge access when flying to sprints. International SOS membership to support you whilst travelling.
Application Closing Date
Not Specified.
Method of Application
Interested and qualified candidates should:
Click here to apply online
Job Title: Engineering Manager – Web
Location: Nigeria
The Role
- The Web and design team works as a multidisciplinary inclusive team with world-class user researchers, UX designers, visual designers and web engineers. We work collaboratively with many teams and roles across the organisation including product managers and other engineering teams.
- As an Engineering Manager at Canonical, your primary responsibility is to the people you support: ensuring that they are growing as web engineers, doing valuable work, and generally having a great time at Canonical.
- As a lead for strong engineers, technical leadership and a solid background in web development is a must, so that you’re able to challenge and grow your team members.
- You will have the opportunity to influence the culture, facilitate technical delivery, and work with your team on strategy and execution.
What You will Do
- Collaborate proactively with a distributed team
- Write high quality code to create new features
- Debug issues and produce high quality code to fix them
- Consistently provide high-quality code reviews to other engineers
- Demonstrate sound engineering principles by directly contributing to your team’s goals
- Estimate work, set goals, and meet them
- Write briefs, epics, and specifications and understand risks
- Work from home with global travel 4 to 6 weeks for internal and external events
- Understand completion criteria and push work to completion
- Help mentor other engineers and manage staff.
- Work to reduce complexity
- Effectively set and manage expectations with other engineering teams, senior management, and external stakeholders
- Support timely delivery of technical solutions to address business needs
- Advocate and advance modern, agile software development practices and help develop and evangelise great engineering and organisational practices
- Build and lead a globally distributed team of web engineers through hiring, coaching, mentoring, feedback and hands-on career development
- Support timely delivery of technical solutions to address business needs
- Grow 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 organisation
Who You Are
- You are knowledgeable and passionate about web and software development
- You are curious, flexible, articulate, and accountable
- You try to learn and use web best practices in your work
- You value soft skills and are passionate, enterprising, thoughtful, and self-motivated
- You take web best practices into account with your work
- You have a Bachelor’s or equivalent in Computer Science, STEM or similar degree
- You have solid experience working in an agile development environment
- You drive work to completion
- You take operational considerations (CI, updating, monitoring, observability, life-cycle management) into account
- You value soft skills and are passionate, enterprising, thoughtful, and self-motivated
- You follow industry trends and new technologies
- You’re capable of representing your team as a subject matter expert
- You have the ability to own architecture and solve larger technical challenges
- You’re seen as a trusted advisor for your area of expertise within Canonical
- You’re capable of representing your team in the absence of management
- You understand and value how you do what you do as well as what you do
- You love developing and growing healthy teams and have a track record of doing it
- You are knowledgeable and passionate about software development and organisational management
- You value getting things done by turning product vision into executable strategy
We Offer
- Remote first: 100% remote working with the opportunity to travel to Sprints. We meet a couple of times a year in interesting places all around the world to come together to collaborate. These Sprints see circa 300 people come together. This year we have travelled to Frankfurt, Copenhagen, Montreal and Prague!
- Personal development: Annual budget allowance and time to focus on areas you want to improve.
- Compensation: eligibility for annual pay review including bonuses.
- Recognition: The ability to possibly be rewarded and recognised by others for the work you do.
- Travel: Priority Pass for lounge access when flying to sprints. International SOS membership to support you whilst travelling.
Application Closing Date
Not Specified.
How to Apply
Interested and qualified candidates should:
Click here to apply online
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