Engineering Manager - Ceph & Distributed Storage

About the role

Canonical is seeking an Engineering Manager to lead a team focused on building a Ceph-based software-defined storage solution. The role involves managing a globally distributed team, fostering engineering excellence, and ensuring the delivery of high-quality software. You will be responsible for coaching and mentoring engineers while contributing to technical strategy and execution.

Responsibilities

• Lead a team building a Ceph focused software defined storage solution
• Build and manage a globally distributed team of engineers
• Develop the team through coaching, mentoring and feedback
• Contribute directly toward team goals while demonstrating sound engineering principles
• Set schedules based on estimates and manage expectations with stakeholders
• Advance modern, agile software development practices
• Maintain a culture of quality and engineering excellence

Required skills

• Software engineering
• Python
• C++
• Ceph
• Linux
• Agile development
• Team management
• Distributed systems

Qualifications

• Software engineering background
• Experience operating scale out storage clusters on Linux in production environments
• Experience leading, managing, coaching and mentoring software developers

About the Company

Canonical is a leading provider of open source software and operating systems, including Ubuntu, which is widely used in public cloud, data science, AI, and IoT. The company is a pioneer of global distributed collaboration with a workforce spread across 75+ countries.