Overview

This is the general track for Engineering Director at Canonical. Apply here if you are confident to run a project which spans teams and time zones, hiring and managing engineering managers and staff engineers.

Canonical’s largest software products are built by multiple teams working together under a single director of engineering. After the first round of interviews we will discuss specific software products that would be a good fit for your interests.

We believe that open source is transforming the tech sector and enterprise compute. Our goal is to make open source easier, more reliable and more secure for deployment and development. We strive to be the provider of “most software to most companies.” To deliver on that ambition, our engineers are carefully selected from applicants across the globe. We select for brilliance and motivation to take open source to the next level. Our engineering directors set the pace and the direction to help teams achieve more than they realised they could, and feel proud of the result.

Even though this is a senior management position, managing managers, we expect Engineering Directors to be outstanding developers with the confidence to lead by example across the full range of activities in their teams. You need to understand what great code looks like in the language and genre of your product—whether that is a web service, a system daemon, a desktop application, or a distributed system. You’ll need to drive testing and benchmarking to improve clarity in your teams around quality and performance. You’ll also need to set and defend high expectations of work ethic, consistency, focus and learning.

We have director level roles across a wide range of engineering domains.