Anyone, anywhere in the world can apply.
The role is explicitly stated as globally remote with team members distributed across 75+ countries.
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Who can apply
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Anyone, anywhere in the world can apply.
The role is explicitly stated as globally remote with team members distributed across 75+ countries.
Over 1,200 colleagues distributed across more than 75 countries.
- Async-first
- The listing doesn't promise async-first working.
- Contractor / B2B
- No mention of hiring international contractors or invoicing.
- Global stipend
- No home office or equipment budget mentioned.
- Annual retreat
- Teams meet in person two to four times per year in various global locations.
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About the role
As an Engineering Manager for the BootStack team, you will lead engineers managing day-to-day managed services of customer cloud environments. Your focus will encompass customer service management, operations, and product improvement engineering across technologies like Kubernetes and OpenStack on private infrastructure, while collaborating closely with customers and product teams.
What you'll do
- Manage and grow an engineering team to optimize the quality and velocity of software development and operations.
- Implement disciplined engineering and operations processes, tracking team health indicators.
- Represent the BootStack team to internal stakeholders, customers, and external teams.
- Ensure team focus on core priorities, milestones, deliverables, and service level agreements (SLAs).
- Consistently deliver high-quality managed services to customer deployments worldwide.
What you bring
- Proven track record in software delivery (using Python, Go, C, C++, Java, etc.) or managing operations teams.
- Demonstrated hands-on experience with OpenStack and Linux system administration (Ubuntu/Debian preferred).
- Experience managing distributed engineering teams within agile frameworks.
- Strong technical understanding of complex distributed systems and cloud topologies.
- Bachelor's degree or equivalent in a technology field, plus willingness to travel up to 20% for company events and customer meetings.
About Canonical
Canonical is the company behind Ubuntu, a leading open-source operating system widely used across cloud, AI, and IoT environments.
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