Software Engineering Manager - Cross-platform C++ - Multipass

Canonical Sevilla La Nueva, Community of Madrid, Spain

Canonical is a leading provider of open source software and operating systems to the general 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, and industry leaders in many sectors. The company is founded led, profitable and growing. We are hiring a Software Engineering Manager to lead Multipass, the workstation mini‑cloud that works on macOS, Windows, and Linux. Multipass lets users launch a VM on their workstation with the command multipass launch and provides a local cloud experience for builds, testing, and experimentation—free of charge.

Location

This is a remote position available in EMEA and the Americas.

Responsibilities
- Lead a team of remote engineers
- Develop talent through coaching, mentoring, feedback and hands‑on career development




- Set and manage expectations with other engineering teams, senior management, and external stakeholders
- Advocate and advance modern software development practices
- Participate in the engineering process through code and architectural review
- Engage with teams at Canonical, the open source community, and partners
- Work from home with global travel for 4 to 6 weeks per year for internal and external events

Qualifications
- You love developing and growing people and have a strong track record of doing it
- You are focused on success and the delivery of timely, high‑quality software
- You have a Bachelor’s or equivalent in Computer Science, STEM or similar degree
- You have strong written and verbal technical communication skills
- Expertise in modern C++ development
- Cross‑platform development experience on macOS and/or Windows
- Knowledge of hypervisor technologies such as Hyper‑V, VirtualBo

📌 Software Engineering Manager (Sevilla la Nueva)
🏢 Canonical
📍 Sevilla la Nueva