What you'll do

• Set and manage expectations with other engineering teams, management, and external stakeholders
• Advocate and advance modern, agile software development practices
• Develop and evangelize great engineering and organizational practices
• Setup and maintain continuous integration for all supported deliverables
• Define and monitor quality metrics
• Develop a team with a culture of high quality and performance
• Work from home with international travel twice per year for up to two weeks

Who you are

• You have a strong software engineering, Linux, and open source background
• Your technical knowledge includes C/C++, Python programming and Shell scripting
• You have experience with data science to support data-driven quality strategies
• You have experience with quality processes and continuous integration tools and principles
• You have engineering management experience and enjoy growing people

What you'll do

• Demonstrate sound engineering principles through architecture, development and code reviews
• Be responsible for planning, estimation and execution
• Work with product management to define the vision and strategy for Ubuntu
• Set and manage expectations with other engineering teams, senior management, and external stakeholders
• Build and lead a distributed regional team of engineers
• Offer coaching, mentoring, technical feedback and hands-on career development
• Advocate and advance modern, agile software development practices
• Design, embrace and evangelize great engineering and organizational practices
• Grow a healthy, collaborative engineering culture in line with company values
• Be an active part of the leadership team and collaborate with other leaders in the organization
• Work from home with international travel up to 6 weeks per year for internal and external events

Valued Skills And Experience

• Deep knowledge of Debian/Ubuntu architecture
• Good understanding of Debian packaging policy, tools and techniques
• High quality software engineering with in-depth knowledge of C/C++ and Python
• Engagement with open source communities and processes
• Experience in one or more of: Linux system architecture, boot process, Java/GCC/Python/Rust/Go toolchains, ARM and/or RISC-V
• Experience managing software developers with a track record of planning, delivery and quality
• A love of developing and growing people and a track record of doing it
• Experience working in an agile development environment

As a Senior Software Engineer - Java Runtimes and Tooling - you will:

• Collaborate proactively with a distributed team
• Work with technical product managers to define the JVM roadmap in Ubuntu
• Select, integrate and package best-of-breed JVM tooling in Ubuntu
• Ensure Ubuntu rates top as the platform for JVM-based innovation
• Write high quality code to create new features
• Debug issues and produce high quality fixes
• Review code produced by other engineers
• Discuss ideas and collaborate on finding good solutions
• Work from home with global travel 2 to 4 weeks a year for internal and external events

The successful candidate will:

• Be a long-time Linux user
• Love technology and working with brilliant people
• Be passionate, curious, flexible, articulate, and accountable
• Have experience or an interest in packaging software for Debian and Ubuntu
• Have professional Java experience, ideally in the world of cloud-native software
• Have a Bachelor's or equivalent in Computer Science, STEM or similar degree
• Be enterprising, thoughtful, and self-motivated
• Value soft skills

What Canonical Offers:

• Learning and development
• Annual compensation review
• Recognition rewards
• Annual leave
• Priority Pass for travel