Engineering Manager - Data Platform

Location

This role can be filled in European, Middle East, African or any American region / time zone.

Your Role

• You will lead a team building scalable data solutions for Kubernetes and cloud machines.
• You will hire, coach, mentor, provide feedback, and lead your team by example.
• You will demonstrate sound engineering skill by directly contributing code when needed.
• Effectively set and manage expectations with other engineering teams, senior management, and external stakeholders.
• Advocate modern, agile software development practices.
• Develop and evangelize great engineering and organizational practices.
• Ensure that your team delivers excellent products that users love by maintaining a culture of quality and engineering excellence.
• Grow a healthy, collaborative engineering culture aligned with the company's values.
• Be an active part of the leadership team and collaborate with other leaders in the organization.
• Work from home with global travel twice yearly, for internal events of one or two weeks duration.

What We're Looking For

• A software engineering background, preferably with Python and Golang experience.
• Experience running in production and at scale, preferably Big Data or MySQL.
• Excellent judgement about people - their motivations, abilities, developmental needs, and prospects for success.
• Proven ability to build high-quality, open-source software.
• Proven to drive good engineering practices around performance and quality.
• An open-minded attitude to new technologies and the drive to push the boundaries of what is possible.
• The ambition to build products that improve how people operate software and infrastructure everywhere.
• Love developing and growing people and have a track record of doing it.
• Knowledgeable and passionate about software development.

Additional Skills That You Might Also Bring

• Specialist knowledge in one or more of Spark, Superset, MySQL, or similar.
• Prior experience working with open source and a will to build products with the community.

What We Offer

• 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.
• Team Events.

About Canonical

SalaryCurrency: EUR Remote Model: Hybrid