Engineering Manager, MAAS
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Canonical is a leading provider of open source software and operating systems to the integral 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. The company is pioneer of global distributed collaboration, with over 1200 colleagues in more than 80 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 as we expand the MAAS team. MAAS ("Metal as a Service") is to provide the best solution for building and running private bare‐metal infrastructure, putting a cloud‐style on‐demand API in front of physical server provisioning, network configuration, and storage. MAAS is a rapidly evolving software stack written in Python and Go,



spanning low‐level hardware detection and provisioning to upper‐level management web interface, API, and CLI. Canonical's MAAS team is responsible for delivering this hyperscale provisioning technology.
Our mission is to provide the most scalable, cloud‐ready server distribution and MAAS platform to get Ubuntu on bare‐metal servers. Engineering managers with experience in high‐quality software development, high‐performance team leadership, deep familiarity with Linux on physical servers, Linux storage, and data‐center networking are needed.
Location: This is a work‐from‐anywhere position available in EMEA or the Americas.
Role Entails
Leading a distributed team of engineers in your time zone (we organise engineering teams by Americas, EMEA, etc.)
Talent development through coaching, mentoring, feedback and career planning
Setting and managing expectations with other engineering teams, senior management, and external stakeholders

📌 Engineering Manager, MAAS (Madrid)
🏢 Canonical
📍 Madrid