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[Apply for this job](#job-application)[View company](https://jobicy.com/company/canonical-ltd.md)ShareRemote from[USA](https://jobicy.com/job-region/usa.md), [Canada](https://jobicy.com/job-region/canada.md), [EMEA](https://jobicy.com/job-region/emea.md)+1 more, [LATAM](https://jobicy.com/job-region/latam.md)SalaryUndisclosedDepartment[QA & Testing](https://jobicy.com/categories/qa-testing.md)EmploymentFull TimeExperienceSeniorPublished23 Oct 2026Apply before22 Nov 2026Listing views29Application actions2Application toolkit ## Make your next move. Prepare your resume, explore your fit, and draft a cover letter for this opportunity. AI Summary ## The role, at a glance. This Engineering Manager role leads Canonical’s Distributed Systems Testing team and is accountable for people development, engineering practice, technical direction, and delivery. The team builds automated quality infrastructure that validates reliability, resilience, performance, and interoperability across cloud-native and distributed environments. The manager must remain technically credible in Python or Go, distributed-system debugging, design reviews, test architecture, and CI/CD tooling. The role collaborates broadly with senior engineers and engineering leaders while supporting a globally distributed team. It is remotely based in the Americas or EMEA, with travel for in-person company events twice each year. ## Role DNA A quick view of the complexity, pace, ownership and collaboration implied by the job description. ### Job Complexity 5/5EasyHard ### Pace & Pressure 4/5RelaxedFast-paced ### Autonomy Level 5/5GuidedFull ownership ### Communication Load 5/5IndependentCollaborative AI insightThis is a senior technical leadership role spanning people management and hands-on judgement for complex distributed systems and quality platforms. Success requires coordinating cross-functional priorities while maintaining high engineering standards across cloud, CI, and test infrastructure. ## Salary analysis Estimated compensation compared with the broader US market for similar roles. Estimated job median (per year)Market rate$175,000US market range (per year)$145k–$215k0$236.50k AI insightThe yearly pay period is inferred from the job context; it was not explicitly stated by the employer. No base-salary range is disclosed by the employer. The figures shown are estimated annual USD market compensation for a US-based engineering manager leading distributed-systems quality engineering; actual Canonical compensation varies by geography, experience, and performance. ## Core skills Skills and capabilities most closely associated with this opportunity. 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I would build layered validation: fast unit and integration tests, environment-specific deployment tests, end-to-end scenarios, and targeted resilience or failure-injection tests. I would also make results observable through consistent artifacts, metrics, and failure classification so that teams can act on regressions quickly. Describe how you balance hands-on technical contribution with your responsibilities as an engineering manager. I focus my technical involvement on decisions with broad leverage, such as architecture reviews, difficult incidents, quality standards, and mentoring. I avoid becoming a delivery bottleneck by delegating ownership clearly and helping senior engineers lead technical initiatives. My primary responsibility is to create the clarity, capability, and environment that enable the team to deliver sustainably. How would you improve an unreliable CI pipeline that frequently produces flaky test results? I would first establish a measurable baseline for flake rate, duration, failure categories, and affected environments. Next, I would prioritize failures by impact, improve test isolation and deterministic setup, and quarantine only with clear ownership and expiry criteria. I would use reporting and trend analysis to ensure fixes reduce noise rather than merely hiding failures. What is your approach to coaching engineers with different experience levels in a remote team? I set clear outcomes and growth expectations tailored to each engineer’s level, then use regular one-to-ones, actionable feedback, and progressively larger ownership opportunities. For less experienced engineers, I provide structure and pairing; for senior engineers, I focus on strategic influence, delegation, and mentoring others. In a remote setting, I make decisions, priorities, and recognition visible through disciplined written communication. How would you handle a disagreement between senior engineers about the architecture of a testing platform? I would ensure the disagreement is framed around explicit goals, constraints, operational risks, and evidence rather than preferences. I would ask the engineers to compare options through design documentation, prototypes, cost and reliability implications, and long-term maintainability. Once sufficient input is available, I would make or facilitate a timely decision, document the rationale, and align the team behind execution. Opportunity details ## About this role. 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, as well as industry leaders across many sectors. Canonical is a pioneer of global distributed collaboration, with 1,200+ colleagues in 75+ countries and very few office-based roles. Teams meet two to four times yearly in person, in interesting locations around the world, to align on strategy and execution. The company is founder-led, profitable, and growing. We are hiring an Engineering Manager for Distributed Systems Testing to lead a team responsible for the quality engineering platform that enables deployment and validation of distributed systems across Canonical’s cloud portfolio. We see quality engineering as a first-class engineering practice. Our Distributed Systems Testing team ensures the performance, correctness, resilience and interoperability of Canonical cloud solutions built with technologies such as Juju, Terraform, OpenStack and Kubernetes. These systems are deployed and tested across diverse environments, from bare-metal to the public cloud. As Engineering Manager, you will combine strong software engineering judgement with people leadership. You will develop engineering talent, establish effective engineering practices, shape technical direction with senior engineers, and ensure the team delivers high-quality testing infrastructure and automation that enables engineering teams across Canonical to ship software with confidence. We believe engineering managers should be outstanding engineers themselves. You should be comfortable reviewing patches, evaluating software design, debugging a distributed system, or discussing test architecture. You will contribute technically where appropriate to set a high standard, while recognizing that your greatest impact comes from shaping the direction, focus, effectiveness, and growth of the whole team. You will work closely with senior engineers and engineering leaders across Canonical to define priorities, improve testing capabilities, and advance how we validate increasingly complex cloud-native and distributed systems. Location: This is a globally remote role, typically leading a team concentrated within a major time zone such as EMEA or the Americas. ### What you’ll do * Lead, coach, and develop a high-performing team of software and quality engineers, ranging from graduate to senior level * Set clear expectations, strengthen engineering practices, and ensure timely delivery against agreed goals * Partner with senior engineers to shape technical strategy, architecture, roadmap, and engineering standards * Guide the development of automated testing infrastructure for the reliability, interoperability, and resilience of distributed systems * Improve CI pipelines, testing tools, and reporting used to validate Canonical’s products and solutions across bare-metal, private and public cloud environments * Enable engineering teams across Canonical to adopt effective distributed-systems testing practices and tooling * Contribute technical leadership through design and code reviews, debugging, and hands-on engineering where appropriate * Represent the team with stakeholders and collaborate across Canonical on quality engineering, infrastructure, and developer experience ### What we’re looking for in you * An exceptional academic track record from both high school and university * Experience in leading, coaching, and mentoring software engineers * Professional software engineering experience with Python or Go * Expertise in distributed systems, cloud infrastructure, quality engineering, or a closely related domain * Strong knowledge of modern software testing processes, strategies, and automation * Experience with Linux (Debian or Ubuntu preferred) * Strong technical judgement and the ability to engage meaningfully in code reviews, architecture discussions, and software design * Experience working in an agile development environment with the ability to organize a team to deliver high-quality results * Professional written and spoken English with excellent communication and presentation skills * Great interpersonal skills, curiosity, flexibility, and accountability, demonstrating passion, thoughtfulness, and self-motivation * Ability to travel twice a year, for company events up to two weeks each ### Additional skills we value Experience with any of the following: * Cloud technologies such as Kubernetes, OpenStack, Juju, Terraform, AWS, Google Cloud, or Azure * Designing testing strategies for distributed or cloud-native systems * Building or operating large-scale CI/CD and test infrastructure * Applying AI or machine learning to test analysis, failure classification, or engineering workflows * Deploying, operating, or debugging distributed systems * Leading globally distributed teams ### What we offer colleagues We consider geographical location, experience, and performance in shaping compensation worldwide. We revisit compensation annually, and more often for graduates and associates, to ensure we recognize outstanding performance. In addition to base pay, we offer a performance-driven annual bonus. We provide all team members with additional benefits that reflect our values and ideals. We balance our programmes to meet local needs and ensure fairness globally. * Distributed work environment with twice-yearly team sprints in person * Personal learning and development budget of USD 2,000 per year * Annual compensation review * Recognition rewards * Annual holiday leave * Maternity and paternity leave * Employee Assistance Programme and wellness support * Opportunity to travel to new locations to meet colleagues * Priority Pass and travel upgrades for long-haul company events ### About Canonical Canonical is a pioneering tech firm at the forefront of the global move to open source. As the company that publishes Ubuntu, one of the most important open source projects and a leading platform for AI, IoT, and the cloud, we are changing the world of software. We recruit globally and set a very high standard for people joining the company. We expect excellence; to succeed, we need to be the best at what we do. Most colleagues at Canonical have worked from home since our inception in 2004. Working here is a step into the future and will challenge you to think differently, work smarter, learn new skills, and raise your game. ### Canonical is an equal opportunity employer We are proud to foster a workplace free from discrimination. Diversity of experience, perspectives, and background create a better work environment and better products. [Whatever your identity, we will give your application fair consideration.](https://canonical.com/careers/diversity/identity) Requisition ID: 1361 Show more [Apply now >](https://jobicy.com/jobs/156573-engineering-manager-distributed-systems-python-go.md) > Annual salary information is not provided for this position. 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