Staff Engineer, Development Lifecycle

Canonical
Americas, EMEA
Workplace: RemoteFull timeFunction: Product ManagementSkills: ["Critical thinking","Problem-solving","Engineering excellence","Stakeholder management","Leadership"]

Lead the engineering excellence effort to make Ubuntu mission-critical for highly regulated sectors like automotive, aerospace, and industrial robotics. You’ll translate complex quality, compliance, and certification demands into concrete engineering processes, agile lifecycle practices, and measurable quality outcomes. Partner with engineering leadership to define continuous improvement methods, establish qualification requirements, and create an engineering culture that teams across the organization can adopt and internalize.

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2 years ago

Staff Engineer, Development Lifecycle

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Job Summary

Lead the engineering excellence effort to make Ubuntu mission-critical for highly regulated sectors like automotive, aerospace, and industrial robotics. You’ll translate complex quality, compliance, and certification demands into concrete engineering processes, agile lifecycle practices, and measurable quality outcomes. Partner with engineering leadership to define continuous improvement methods, establish qualification requirements, and create an engineering culture that teams across the organization can adopt and internalize.
Location: Americas, EMEA
Workplace: Remote
Employment Type: Full time · Permanent
Job Function: Product Management
Seniority: Sr. Manager level

Key Responsibilities

  • •Lead efforts to fit Ubuntu for mission-critical, highly regulated environments like automotive, aerospace, and industrial robotics.
  • •Unify agile approaches across multiple projects and teams using engineering lifecycle practices.
  • •Collaborate with engineering leadership to define and implement continuous improvement processes and engineering ways of working.
  • •Establish qualification requirements and methods for measuring engineering quality to shape engineering culture.
  • •Build strategic relationships with external working groups, committees, and partners through the industrial standards team.
Travel: Low travel

Pay and Benefits

Perks:Remote WorkLearning BudgetAnnual LeaveParental LeaveEmployee AssistancePriority Pass

Key Requirements

  • •Strong experience in engineering and process management within an agile environment.
  • •Knowledge or certification in quality standards for software artifacts such as ISO/IEC 25010 or ASPICE.
  • •Track record of developing and growing people and teams.
  • •Led compliance and certification efforts, with strong process and stakeholder management experience.
  • •Experience with Linux.
Experience:Open sourceLinuxAgileCompliance & certificationRegulated industries
Skills:Critical thinkingProblem-solvingEngineering excellenceStakeholder managementLeadership
Certifications:ISO/IEC 25010ASPICE
Tech Stack:UbuntuLinux

Company Brief

Canonical
Develops and maintains Ubuntu, a leading open-source Linux distribution, and provides cloud, IoT, and enterprise support, tooling, and services to enable deployment, management, and security of infrastructure and applications.
Industry: Enterprise Software
Company Size: Enterprise (1,001+ employees)
Growth: Established Company
Funding: Bootstrapped
Headquarters: London, United Kingdom
Founded: 2004
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