Engineering Manager- Ceph & Distributed Storage

Canonical Cape Town, Western Cape, South Africa

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 public cloud, data science, AI, engineering innovation, and IoT. We are hiring an Engineering Manager for Ceph & Distributed Storage to help teams store data in open source storage on commodity hardware – safely, cheaply, and simply.

• You will lead a team building a Ceph focused software‑defined storage solution.
• You will build and manage a globally distributed team of engineers.
• You’ll develop your team through coaching, mentoring and feedback.
• You will 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 organisation.
• Work from home with global travel up to 20% for internal and external events.

• You have a software engineering background, preferably with Python and C++ experience.
• You have experience operating scale‑out storage clusters on Linux in production environments, preferably with Ceph.
• You love embracing new technologies and pushing the boundaries of what is possible.
• You love developing and growing people and have a track record of doing it.
• You have an interest in building products that improve how people operate software and infrastructure everywhere.
• You are knowledgeable and passionate about software development.
• You have experience in leading, managing, coaching and mentoring software developers towards delivering timely, high quality software together.
• You have 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.