Canonical Engineering Director, Multi-cloud Orchestrator (Golang) Jobs in Nigeria

Canonical Engineering Director, Multi-cloud Orchestrator (Golang) Jobs in Nigeria

Canonical delivers open source to the world faster, more securely and more cost-effectively than any other company.

We develop Ubuntu, the world’s most popular enterprise Linux from cloud to edge, together with a passionate global community of 200,000 contributors.

Ubuntu means 'humanity to others. We chose it because it embodies the generosity at the heart of open source, the new normal for platforms and innovation.

Together with a community of 200,000, we publish an operating system that runs from the tiny connected devices up to the world's biggest mainframes, the platform that everybody uses on the public cloud, and the workstation experience of the world's most productive developers.

Secure and reliable, elegant and intuitive, and open for innovation - Ubuntu is the future of open source, which is why it's the fastest-growing Linux in the world despite already being the most widely deployed.

Location: Lagos

Job Description

Lead engineering across multiple teams on a large open source Golang project orchestrating complex, highly-concurrent distributed systems across the world - on Kubernetes, on clouds and on bare metal.

This is an exceptionally challenging role that requires deep insights into the technical stack from kernel, through networking, to containers and Kubernetes.

This leadership role requires an understanding of team dynamics and software engineering practices at the highest level.

As an Engineering Director at Canonical you own both the product and the team, and are entrusted to ensure that they are continually improving, doing valuable work, and finding intellectual satisfaction at Canonical.

Astute technical leadership and management acumen is needed to challenge and grow your teams.

You will have the opportunity to influence culture, facilitate technical delivery, and work with your teams on strategy and execution.

What You’ll Do