.**Summary**:This is an exciting opportunity for a software engineering manager passionate about open source software, Linux, and cloud infrastructure. Come build a rewarding, meaningful career working with the best and brightest people in technology at Canonical, a growing international software company.You will work closely with Amazon, Microsoft, Google and other world-class cloud partners to make Ubuntu the best platform there is in the clouds, making an impact on millions of users. Your time will be split between people management and daily running of a small team, development activities, and direct partner engagement. You'll be responsible for a wide variety of projects and assignments which contribute to the stability and functionality that our cloud users have come to expect. You will strive to automate the delivery of existing and new Ubuntu image products applied to all modern workloads from web servers to GPU-aided AI for servers, VM's and containers.As an engineering manager at Canonical your primary responsibility is to the people you support: ensuring that they are growing as 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 software 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'll do**:- Build and lead a globally distributed team of engineers- Develop talent through coaching, mentoring, feedback and hands-on career development- You will demonstrate sound engineering principles and directly contribute toward your team's goals to support timely delivery of technical solutions to address business needs- Effectively set and manage expectations with other engineering teams, senior management, and external stakeholders- Advocate and advance modern, agile software development practices and help develop and evangelize great engineering and organizational practices- 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- Build automated, highly reliable image delivery, testing and publication pipelines- Engage with many other teams at Canonical, as well as the open source community and commercial partners- Work from home with global travel up to 15% for internal and external events**Who you are**:- You love developing and growing people and have a track record of doing it- You are knowledgeable and passionate about software development, focused on success and the delivery of timely, high quality software- You have 3+ years of experience in leading, managing, coaching and mentoring software developers. Experience managing distributed teams is a plus