Engineering Manager- Ceph

Join the Engineering Manager—Ceph & Distributed Storage role at Canonical. Canonical is a leading provider of open source software and operating systems to the global enterprise and technology markets. Our platform, Ubuntu, is widely used in breakthrough enterprise initiatives such as public cloud, data science, AI, engineering innovation, and IoT. Our customers include the world’s leading public cloud and silicon providers, and industry leaders in many sectors. The company is a pioneer of global distributed collaboration, with 1200+ colleagues in 75+ countries and very few office‑based roles. Teams meet two to four times yearly in person for strategy and execution. The company is founder‑led, profitable, and growing. We are hiring an Engineering Manager for Ceph & Distributed Storage. The world creates more than 2.5 quintillion bytes of data every day, and we want to help teams store data on commodity hardware—safely, cheaply and simply. Our goal is to make Ceph easy to install, manage, and use—from large enterprise data center installations to half‑rack edge sites. Distributed storage shouldn’t be hard; to keep up with increasing demand, it needs to be easier than ever before. We have a range of tools to bring to bear on the problem, and we’re excited to make distributed Ceph easy enough that everyone does it. As an engineering manager you must be technically strong, but your responsibility is to run an effective team and develop the colleagues you manage. You are expected to help them grow as engineers, do important work well, find professional and personal satisfaction, and work well with colleagues and community. Technical leadership experience and a background in software engineering are necessary prerequisites. What you’ll do Lead a team building a Ceph‑focused software‑defined storage solution Build and manage a globally distributed team of engineers Develop your team through coaching, mentoring, and feedback Demonstrate sound engineering principles by directly contributing toward your team's goals Set reasonable schedules based on considered estimates, with feedback loops for improvement Set and manage expectations with other engineering teams and external stakeholders Advance modern, agile software development practices Maintain a culture of quality and engineering excellence 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 organization Work from home with global travel up to 20% for internal and external events Who you are Software engineering background, preferably with Python and C++ experience Experience operating scale‑out storage clusters on Linux in production environments, preferably with Ceph Love embracing new technologies and pushing the boundaries of what is possible Love developing and growing people and have a track record of doing it Interest in building products that improve how people operate software and infrastructure everywhere Knowledgeable and passionate about software development Experience in leading, managing, coaching and mentoring software developers towards delivering timely, high‑quality software together Solid experience working in an agile development environment Canonical is an equal opportunity employer. We are proud to foster a workplace free from discrimination. Diversity of experience, perspectives, and background create a better work environment and better products. Whatever your identity, we will give your application fair consideration. #J-18808-Ljbffr