Staff Engineer, Development Lifecycle
Canonical is seeking someone to lead its effort to make Ubuntu fit for applications in automotive, aerospace, industrial robotics and other highly regulated environments, where the complex demands of regulation, compliance and certification must be demonstrably met. In this role you will transform those complex demands into concrete outcomes and into engineering excellence values and practices, leading and challenging engineering culture and working with teams across the organisation. You will collaborate with engineering leadership to define and implement continuous improvement processes, establish qualification requirements, and define methods for measuring quality. You will also build strategic relations with external working groups, committees and partners. The role may be held anywhere in European, Middle Eastern, African or Americas regions or time zones.
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Responsibilities
- ▹Lead the effort to make Ubuntu fit for mission-critical, highly regulated environments
- ▹Transform complex regulatory, compliance and certification demands into concrete engineering outcomes
- ▹Lead and challenge engineering culture, working with teams across the organisation
- ▹Define and implement continuous improvement processes with engineering leadership
- ▹Establish qualification requirements in support of engineering quality standards
- ▹Define methods and approaches for measuring quality and use them to shape engineering culture
- ▹Establish strategic relations with external working groups, committees and partners
- ▹Join the industrial standards team and work closely with company-wide engineering leadership
Requirements
- ▹Strong experience in engineering and process management in an agile environment
- ▹Knowledge or certification of standards addressing software artifact quality such as ISO/IEC 25010 or ASPICE
- ▹Track record of developing and growing people and teams
- ▹Experience leading successful compliance and certification efforts, understanding the process and stakeholder management
- ▹Experience with Linux
Nice to have
- ▹Background as a software developer
- ▹Experience establishing product engineering development metrics and KPIs
- ▹Strong critical thinking and problem-solving skills
Soft skills
What we offer
- ▹Fully remote working environment
- ▹Personal learning and development budget of USD 2,000 per year
- ▹Annual compensation review
- ▹Recognition rewards
- ▹Annual holiday leave
- ▹Parental leave
- ▹Employee Assistance Programme
- ▹Opportunity to travel to meet colleagues at sprints
- ▹Priority Pass and travel upgrades for long-haul company events
- ▹Annual bonuses and sales incentives for eligible roles
About the company
Canonical is a pioneering tech firm at the forefront of the global move to open source and the publisher of Ubuntu, the platform for AI, IoT and the cloud. It has been a remote-first company since its inception in 2004, recruits globally and sets a very high standard for those joining. Canonical is an equal opportunity employer.