Distributed Systems Quality Engineering Manager

vor 3 Wochen


Wien, Österreich Canonical - Jobs Vollzeit

Lead an engineering team, pioneering new approaches to distributed systems quality. This is possibly the most complex and challenging quality engineering role imaginable, and requires exceptional technical engineering ability as well as analytical skills to deal with large volumes of data.

As the engineering manager you'll lead the team, shaping the vision and setting the pace, and collaborate with product teams who build Canonical's end-to-end cloud portfolio. Your challenge is to ensure high quality and reliability of Canonical's cloud solutions, by developing tools,testing procedures and pipelines for this purpose. Our goal is to revolutionise the world of operations from metal to container, and this quality team is central to our ability to deliver on that vision. We need a unified approach to test, verification and benchmarking that recognises the fluid nature of large-scale distributed systems in production over time.

**What you'll do**:

- Build and lead a growing team of remote engineers
- Develop talent through coaching, mentoring, feedback and hands-on career development
- Set and manage expectations with other engineering teams, senior management, and external stakeholders
- Advocate and advance modern, agile software development practices
- Grow a healthy, collaborative engineering culture
- Be an active part of the leadership team shaping our approach to cloud
- Participate in the engineering process through code and architectural review
- Engage with teams at Canonical, the open source community and partners
- Work from home with global travel for 4 to 6 weeks per year for internal and external events

**Who you are**:

- You love developing and growing people and have a strong track record of doing it
- You have good knowledge of quality and reliability oriented engineering practices in a distributed system setting
- You are focused on success and the delivery of timely, high quality software
- You have solid experience working in an agile development environment
- You have a Bachelor's or equivalent in Computer Science, STEM or similar degree
- You have strong written and verbal technical communication skills
- You understand modern Linux cloud computing technologies, including networking, storage, containers and K8s
- Familiarity and real project experience with Python

**What is Canonical?**:
Canonical is a growing international software company that works with the open-source community to deliver Ubuntu, "the world's best free software platform". Our mission is to realise the potential of free software in the lives of individuals and organisations. Our services are helping individuals and businesses worldwide to reduce costs, improve efficiency and enhance security with Ubuntu.

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