Ubuntu Engineering Manager
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About the Role
Jobgether is hiring an Ubuntu Engineering Manager to lead engineering teams building and evolving the Ubuntu open source platform. The role combines technical leadership, people management, and hands-on engineering.
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Responsibilities
- Lead and develop engineering teams focused on improving Linux user and developer experiences
- Own technical roadmaps, execution plans, and delivery outcomes while aligning engineering work with broader product strategy
- Guide architecture decisions, software development practices, code reviews, and engineering standards
- Build and maintain high quality, performant software using technologies such as Rust, Go, Python, Flutter, or C/C++
- Support engineers through coaching, mentoring, technical feedback, and career development
- Collaborate with product teams, engineering leaders, and external stakeholders to define priorities and deliver impactful solutions
- Drive planning, estimation, execution, and continuous improvement across engineering initiatives
- Contribute to upstream open source projects and encourage community collaboration
- Improve technical documentation and knowledge sharing practices
- Foster a culture of engineering excellence, ownership, innovation, and collaboration within distributed teams
Requirements
- Proven experience leading technical teams and delivering complex software projects
- Strong software engineering background with hands on experience in Rust, Go, Python, Flutter, or C/C++
- Experience managing engineers while remaining close to technical decisions
- Demonstrated ability to drive technical initiatives from planning through delivery
- Strong understanding of software architecture, engineering principles, performance, reliability, and maintainability
- Passion for open source software and experience contributing to or working with open source communities
- Experience with Linux systems, including desktop or server environments, distributions, package management, or system administration
- Strong communication and interpersonal skills
- Professional written and spoken English proficiency
- Results oriented mindset with strong ownership and commitment
- Ability and willingness to travel internationally for team gatherings several times per year
- Experience with software packaging, distribution mechanisms, security engineering, or performance optimization is a plus
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Role Overview
- As an Ubuntu Engineering Manager, you will lead high performing engineering teams responsible for building and evolving one of the world’s most widely used open source platforms.
- You will combine technical leadership, people management, and hands on engineering expertise to deliver secure, reliable, and scalable software.
- The role offers the opportunity to influence the future of Linux development while collaborating with a global community of engineers and open source contributors.
- This position is ideal for an experienced engineering leader passionate about open source, software quality, and building exceptional teams.
Accountabilities
- Lead and develop engineering teams focused on improving Linux user and developer experiences.
- Own technical roadmaps, execution plans, and delivery outcomes while aligning engineering work with broader product strategy.
- Guide architecture decisions, software development practices, code reviews, and engineering standards.
- Build and maintain high quality, performant software using technologies such as Rust, Go, Python, Flutter, or C/C++.
- Support engineers through coaching, mentoring, technical feedback, and career development.
- Collaborate with product teams, engineering leaders, and external stakeholders to define priorities and deliver impactful solutions.
- Drive planning, estimation, execution, and continuous improvement across engineering initiatives.
- Contribute to upstream open source projects and encourage community collaboration.
- Improve technical documentation and knowledge sharing practices.
- Foster a culture of engineering excellence, ownership, innovation, and collaboration within distributed teams.
Requirements
- Proven experience leading technical teams and delivering complex software projects.
- Strong software engineering background with hands on experience in languages such as Rust, Go, Python, Flutter, or C/C++.
- Experience managing engineers while remaining close to technical decisions and development processes.
- Demonstrated ability to drive technical initiatives from planning through delivery.
- Strong understanding of software architecture, engineering principles, performance, reliability, and maintainability.
- Passion for open source software and experience contributing to or working with open source communities.
- Experience with Linux systems, including desktop or server environments, distributions, package management, or system administration.
- Strong communication and interpersonal skills with the ability to collaborate across technical and non technical teams.
- Professional written and spoken English proficiency.
- Results oriented mindset with strong ownership and commitment to delivering high quality outcomes.
- Ability and willingness to travel internationally for team gatherings several times per year.
- Experience with software packaging, distribution mechanisms, security engineering, or performance optimization is considered a plus.
Benefits
- Fully remote work environment with opportunities to collaborate with global teams.
- Twice yearly in person team gatherings in different locations worldwide.
- Competitive compensation based on location, experience, and performance.
- Annual performance based compensation reviews.
- Personal learning and development budget of USD 2,000 per year.
- Recognition and reward programs.
- Paid annual leave.
- Maternity and paternity leave support.
- Employee Assistance Programme.
- Opportunities to travel and connect with colleagues internationally.
- Additional travel benefits for company events.
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