From the listing
About the role
Canonical is hiring an Engineering Manager for Ceph & Distributed Storage to help teams store data in open source storage on commodity hardware—safely, cheaply and simply.
Our goal is to make Ceph easy to install, manage and use—from large enterprise data center installations to half-rack edge sites.
As an engineering manager at Canonical, your responsibility is to run an effective team and develop the colleagues you manage, while providing technical leadership and facilitating technical delivery.
What you'll do
- Lead a team building a Ceph focused software defined storage solution.
- Build and manage a globally distributed team of engineers.
- Develop your team through coaching, mentoring and feedback.
- 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 with your team on strategy and execution.
- Be responsible for sound software architecture and best practices in software quality, testing and documentation.
What they're looking for
- Technical leadership experience and a background in software engineering.
- Experience operating scale out storage clusters on Linux in production environments.
- Love embracing new technologies and pushing the boundaries of what is possible.
- Love developing and growing people and have a track record of doing it.
- An interest in building products that improve how people operate software and infrastructure everywhere.
- Knowledgeable and passionate about software development.
- Experience in leading, managing, coaching and mentoring software developers towards delivering timely, high quality software together.
- Solid experience working in an agile development environment.
Nice to have
- Python and C++ experience.
- Experience operating scale out storage clusters with Ceph.
Benefits, as listed
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.