Engineering Manager - Distributed Systems, Python / Go

What you'll do

• Lead, coach, and develop a high-performing team of software and quality engineers, ranging from graduate to senior level
• Set clear expectations, strengthen engineering practices, and ensure timely delivery against agreed goals
• Partner with senior engineers to shape technical strategy, architecture, roadmap, and engineering standards
• Guide the development of automated testing infrastructure for the reliability, interoperability, and resilience of distributed systems
• Improve CI pipelines, testing tools, and reporting used to validate Canonical's products and solutions across bare-metal, private and public cloud environments
• Enable engineering teams across Canonical to adopt effective distributed-systems testing practices and tooling
• Contribute technical leadership through design and code reviews, debugging, and hands-on engineering where appropriate
• Represent the team with stakeholders and collaborate across Canonical on quality engineering, infrastructure, and developer experience

What we're looking for in you

• An exceptional academic track record from both high school and university
• Experience in leading, coaching, and mentoring software engineers
• Professional software engineering experience with Python or Go
• Expertise in distributed systems, cloud infrastructure, quality engineering, or a closely related domain
• Strong knowledge of modern software testing processes, strategies, and automation
• Experience with Linux (Debian or Ubuntu preferred)
• Strong technical judgement and the ability to engage meaningfully in code reviews, architecture discussions, and software design
• Experience working in an agile development environment with the ability to organize a team to deliver high-quality results
• Professional written and spoken English with excellent communication and presentation skills
• Great interpersonal skills, curiosity, flexibility, and accountability, demonstrating passion, thoughtfulness, and self-motivation
• Ability to travel twice a year, for company events up to two weeks each

Additional skills we value

Experience with any of the following:

• Cloud technologies such as Kubernetes, OpenStack, Juju, Terraform, AWS, Google Cloud, or Azure
• Designing testing strategies for distributed or cloud-native systems
• Building or operating large-scale CI/CD and test infrastructure
• Applying AI or machine learning to test analysis, failure classification, or engineering workflows
• Deploying, operating, or debugging distributed systems
• Leading globally distributed teams