Engineering Manager, MAAS – Canonical

Canonical is a leading provider of open source software and operating systems to the global enterprise and technology markets. Our platform, Ubuntu, is widely used in breakthrough enterprise initiatives such as public cloud, data science, AI, engineering innovation and IoT. Our customers include the world’s leading public cloud and silicon providers and industry leaders in many sectors. The company is a pioneer of global distributed collaboration, with 1200+ colleagues in more than 80 countries and very few office‑based roles.

Role Overview

We are hiring an Engineering Manager to expand the MAAS team. Our mission with MAAS (Metal as a Service) is to provide the best solution for building and running private bare‑metal infrastructure, putting a cloud‑style on‑demand API in front of physical server provisioning, network configuration, and storage. The MAAS team is responsible for delivering our Metal As A Service hyperscale provisioning technology and writing code in Python and Go across the entire stack. The role requires technical leadership,



deep familiarity with Linux on physical servers, storage, and data center networking.

Responsibilities
- Leading a distributed team of engineers in your time zone (we organize engineering teams by Americas, EMEA, etc.)
- Talent development through coaching, mentoring, feedback and career planning
- Setting and managing expectations with other engineering teams, senior management, and external stakeholders
- Being an advocate of, and advancing, modern software development practices
- Participating in the engineering process through code and architectural review
- Engaging with broader teams at Canonical, the open source community and partners
- Travelling to internal and external integral events for 4 to 6 weeks per year

Qualifications
- Bachelor’s degree (or equivalent) and a background in Computer Science
- Exceptional academic track record from both high school and university
- Proven

📌 Engineering Manager, MAAS (León)
🏢 Canonical
📍 León