Engineering Manager - Ceph & Distributed Storage

About the Role

Canonical is seeking an Engineering Manager to lead our Ceph & Distributed Storage team. You will be responsible for driving the development of software-defined storage solutions that make Ceph accessible and efficient for environments ranging from large enterprise data centers to edge sites.

What You’ll Do

• Team Leadership: Build and manage a globally distributed team of engineers, focusing on coaching, mentoring, and professional development.
• Technical Strategy: Contribute directly to engineering goals while ensuring sound software architecture, quality, testing, and documentation standards.
• Delivery: Set reasonable schedules, manage expectations with stakeholders, and facilitate technical delivery using modern agile practices.
• Culture: Foster a healthy, collaborative engineering culture aligned with company values.
• Collaboration: Act as an active member of the leadership team and work cross-functionally with other organizational leaders.
• Travel: Participate in global travel up to 20% for internal and external events.

Who You Are

• Technical Background: Strong software engineering foundation, preferably with experience in Python and C++.
• Domain Expertise: Proven experience operating scale-out storage clusters on Linux in production environments, with a strong preference for Ceph.
• Management Experience: Demonstrated track record of leading, coaching, and mentoring software developers to deliver high-quality software.
• Agile Mindset: Solid experience working within agile development environments.
• Passion: A drive to build products that improve how infrastructure and software are operated globally.

About Canonical

Canonical is the publisher of Ubuntu, the platform for AI, IoT, and the cloud. We are a founder-led, profitable company with over 1,200 colleagues across 75+ countries. We operate as a distributed-first organization, meeting in person two to four times a year to align on strategy and execution.