Engineering Manager – Build and Release Infrastructure (Remote) at Canonical Nigeria

Job Title: Engineering Manager – Build and Release Infrastructure

The role entails

• Growing a high-performing engineering team in your region, fostering an environment of collaboration and technical excellence.
• Coaching, mentoring, and providing hands-on career development opportunities, ensuring engineers achieve their full potential.
• Applying sound engineering principles to solve complex challenges and directly contribute to your team’s technical goals.
• Building strong relationships with stakeholders across teams, management, and external partners, driving alignment and shared success.
• Spearheading the continuous development of Launchpad—the backbone for world-class software like Ubuntu.
• Leading the ongoing development of Launchpad, the infrastructure on which great software like Ubuntu is built
• Advocating and advancing modern, agile software development practices and helping develop and evangelise great engineering and organisational practices
• Cultivating a collaborative, inclusive, and innovative work environment that aligns with company values.
• Working closely with the broader leadership team to shape the direction of engineering efforts.
• Enjoying the autonomy of working from home while engaging with global teams, including up to 6 weeks per year of international travel for key events.

What we are looking for in you

• You have experience driving the success of a distributed team, ensuring seamless feature delivery and robust production services at scale.
• You love to inspire, mentor, and develop engineers, fostering a culture of continuous learning and professional growth and have an outstanding track record of doing so.
• You have a deep technical expertise and passion to fuel innovation, enabling your team to solve complex challenges with confidence.
• You have led teams to build and ship high-quality software, pushing the boundaries of scalability and reliability.
• You have experience designing and evolving distributed systems that power mission-critical applications and future-proof infrastructure.
• You are capable of articulating ideas effectively, ensuring alignment across teams and stakeholders with clear, persuasive communication.
• You have a track record of driving agile methodologies, fostering adaptability, collaboration, and efficiency in a fast-moving environment.

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 recognise outstanding performance.
• In addition to base pay, we offer a performance-driven annual bonus or commission.
• We provide all team members with additional benefits, which reflect our values and ideals.
• We balance our programs 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
• Opportunity to travel to new locations to meet colleagues
• Priority Pass, and travel upgrades for long haul company events.

Application Instructions:

The application deadline is NOT SPECIFIED. Therefore, Qualified and interested candidates can: “CLICK HERE TO APPLY ONLINE”. It is important to visit the official website (link found below) for detailed information on how to apply successfully for this vacancy.

Website:
Official Job Website: https://canonical.com/