Canonical

Engineering Manager – Ubuntu Security

Canonical

full-time

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Location Type: Remote

Location: Anywhere in the World

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About the role

  • Lead and develop a team of engineers, ranging from graduate to senior
  • Provide technical guidance on vulnerability remediation
  • Drive the development of new security engineering projects
  • Work with upstream open source projects on vulnerability lifecycle handling
  • Coach, mentor, and offer career development feedback
  • Identify and measure team health indicators
  • Implement disciplined engineering processes
  • Represent your team and product to stakeholders, partners, and customers
  • Develop and evangelise great engineering and organisational practices
  • Plan and manage progress on agreed goals and projects
  • Be an active part of the security engineering leadership team, collaborating with other leaders

Requirements

  • An exceptional academic track record from both high school and university
  • Undergraduate degree in Computer Science or STEM, or a compelling narrative about your alternative path
  • Drive, and a track record of going above-and-beyond expectations
  • Excellent verbal and written communication skills in English
  • A love of developing and growing people and a track record of it
  • Organised and able to ensure your team delivers timely, high quality results
  • Professional manner interacting with colleagues, partners, and community
  • Solid background in software development, including expertise in support and maintenance
  • Mastery in any programming language (Go, Java, C, Python, ...)
  • Knowledgeable and passionate about software and application security
  • Solid experience working in an agile development environment
  • A demonstrated drive for continual learning
  • Builds trust, relationships and confidence
  • Result-oriented, with a personal drive to meet commitments
  • Ability to travel twice a year, for company events up to two weeks each
Benefits
  • Distributed work environment with twice-yearly team sprints in person
  • Personal learning and development budget of USD 2,000 per year
  • Annual compensation review
  • Recognition rewards
  • Annual holiday leave
  • Maternity and paternity leave
  • Employee Assistance Programme
  • Opportunity to travel to new locations to meet colleagues
  • Priority Pass, and travel upgrades for long haul company events
Applicant Tracking System Keywords

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Hard Skills & Tools
software developmentprogramming languagesGoJavaCPythonvulnerability remediationapplication securityagile developmentengineering processes
Soft Skills
leadershipmentoringcommunicationorganisational skillsteam managementrelationship buildingresult-orienteddrive for continual learningcoachingstakeholder engagement