From the listing
About the role
This role is an opportunity for a technologist with a passion for Linux and Cloud technologies to build a career with Canonical and drive success with those leveraging Ubuntu and open source products.
The BootStack team designs, builds, and operates modern distributed systems on private infrastructure for customers, from Kubernetes to OpenStack and everything in-between.
As a Cloud Engineering Manager for the BootStack team, you will manage the engineers that oversee day-to-day Managed Service of customer environments, including customer service management, managed services operations and consistent product improvement engineering. This is a globally remote role.
What you'll do
- Manage a growing engineering team to optimise the quality and velocity of both development and operations.
- Identify and measure team health indicators.
- Implement disciplined engineering and operations processes.
- Represent the BootStack team with respect to stakeholders, customers, and external teams.
- Ensure proper team focus on priorities, milestones, and deliverables.
- Work to meet service level agreements with customer deployments around the globe.
- Deliver quality managed services in a consistent, timely manner.
- Collaborate with customers, product engineering, and operations.
What they're looking for
- Bachelors (or equivalent) education in a technology field.
- Proven track record of professional experience of either software delivery using Python, Go, C, C++, Java, or similar and/or managing operations teams.
- Proven experience with OpenStack.
- Demonstrated strong commitment to testing methodologies and maintainable code quality.
- Experience with Linux system administration.
- Strong communication and cooperation skills.
- Experience with agile software development methodologies.
- Experience working in and managing distributed teams.
- Technical aptitude for understanding complex distributed systems.
- Experience with cloud topologies and technologies.
- Travel to team and company events and customer meetings, roughly 20% or less.
Nice to have
- Ubuntu/Debian a plus.
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Benefits
The hot takeJeff's read on Canonical
Canonical is a bit tricky for me to review for a few reasons:
Their Glassdoor reviews have dropped down to 3.1 (March 25, 2026), right at my threshold. I'd want to see this start trending in the correct direction in order to consider them for inclusion again.
I like they they have yearly sprints in cool locations like Cape Town, Madrid, and London.
I like that hire-from-anywhere/work-from-anywhere roles are clearly labeled on the job listings as "worldwide."
I'd like to read more about how they feel about their employees traveling as a digital nomad, or being location-independent in general.
I'd like to see more details about the perks they do or don't offer employees, though I suspect they vary by hiring region.
Please get back to me, because I would like to include you again, but need a few more details to do so.