Observability Engineering Manager

The company is founder-led, profitable, and growing.

We are hiring an Observability Engineering Manager who will lead the development of the distributed tracing or service mesh products as part of our Observability group.

Engineering managers at Canonical are always coders who are able to review and lead both architecture and code. They should also be astute judges of character, and comfortable setting expectations and holding colleagues accountable to them.

Manage a distributed team of engineers and its observability portfolio
Organize and lead the team’s processes in order to help it achieve its objectives
Conduct one-on-one meetings with team members
Identify and measure team health indicators
Interact with a vibrant community
Review code produced by other engineers
Attend conferences to represent Canonical and its Observability Stack

An exceptional academic track record from both high school and university
A proven track record of professional experience of software delivery
Professional software development experience, preferably with a track record in open source
Willingness to travel up to 4 times a year for internal events
Professional written and spoken English 
Experience with Linux (Debian or Ubuntu preferred) 
Excellent interpersonal skills, curiosity, flexibility, and accountability 
Passion, thoughtfulness, and self-motivation 
Excellent communication and presentation skills 
Result-oriented, with a personal drive to meet commitments
Experience as an engineering manager, with a track record of building great, high performance teams  
Professional Python development experience
A working knowledge of Go
Open source contribution experience
Interest and experience with container technologies
A proven understanding of the importance of observability and monitoring for keeping software running smoothly
Experience designing and implementing observability solutions